We rewired our 100 year old cabin when it was stripped to the studs in a major renovation. Foolishly, I had the 120v wiring done with no manual switches for some lighting circuits, centralized switching at the panel for some lighting circuits and some conventional in-the-room switches in some locations.
This cabin is only occupied about 50 days per year with year-around heating. With 480 lines of programming on an OMNI controller and 14 exterior video cameras we can monitor everything and all the controls works great. We still use the SnapLink phone app because it covers everything . . Security, HVAC, lighting and Well Pump, HotWater, and a Ventilation system. In addition to SnapLink we use the email alerts provided by HAI "Web-Link II" running on an Oracle VirtualBox VM instance of Windows XP. Lighting scenes and HVAC are controlled with Security-Mode conditions, outside temperature conditions and motion conditions when the cabin is unoccupied.
The last time I checked there was no turn-key OMNI replacement to get all of that controlled under a 1 vendor system. When I called an established Home automation company, they said to replace that much integration between systems would be very expensive build with a multi-vendor solution.
This is my concern . . . we are old and this cabin will be passed to the next generation at some point. We don't want to give them a nightmare when the HAI / X10 system that is no longer serviceable. Because the 120 wiring was done without conventional in-the-room control in many places, we can't just remove automation without rewiring much of the house.
IS THERE A TURNKEY ALTERNATIVE TO OUR HAI / X10 WHEN HAI IS NO LONGER SERVICEABLE ?
This cabin is only occupied about 50 days per year with year-around heating. With 480 lines of programming on an OMNI controller and 14 exterior video cameras we can monitor everything and all the controls works great. We still use the SnapLink phone app because it covers everything . . Security, HVAC, lighting and Well Pump, HotWater, and a Ventilation system. In addition to SnapLink we use the email alerts provided by HAI "Web-Link II" running on an Oracle VirtualBox VM instance of Windows XP. Lighting scenes and HVAC are controlled with Security-Mode conditions, outside temperature conditions and motion conditions when the cabin is unoccupied.
The last time I checked there was no turn-key OMNI replacement to get all of that controlled under a 1 vendor system. When I called an established Home automation company, they said to replace that much integration between systems would be very expensive build with a multi-vendor solution.
This is my concern . . . we are old and this cabin will be passed to the next generation at some point. We don't want to give them a nightmare when the HAI / X10 system that is no longer serviceable. Because the 120 wiring was done without conventional in-the-room control in many places, we can't just remove automation without rewiring much of the house.
IS THERE A TURNKEY ALTERNATIVE TO OUR HAI / X10 WHEN HAI IS NO LONGER SERVICEABLE ?
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