Hi community, I am playing around with openHAB since the beginning and feel pretty confident with it. As life progresses, I am now building a home for my family which will be purely controlled by openHAB. I think I will do this project open source as my way to give something back :slight_smile: bu…

[image] mstormi: My major advice would be to think of comprehensive, centralized wiring early I definitely second that And take into account all kind of wiring, data, power, DC, AC, CCTV…

[image] mstormi: My major advice would be to think of comprehensive, centralized wiring early Agree. This is the most complicated part. Most often wirering depends on the actualy devices chosen. So it would require somekind of strategy before hand. In our house, all our wall switches are “l…

I built 15 years ago 6 points of cat7 in every room and every light or gpo in a star config back to a hub controlled by dmx I am currently using openhab to control it thank you openhab it’s great!!! If I had to do it again and I am currently rewiring the lighting to 5vdc. I would run DC wiring to th…

absolutely! I started to read into wirering a bit and I liked the idea to have a low-power house, most devices I have don’t need 240V anyway and cable is always more “stable” then wireless. But: the house we bought was already pre-designed with fix-price. I had little influence on the electricity …

the wemos borads (esp8266) are worth looking at if you dont mind diy

Hi Philipp, I welcome your intension and I will follow you with Interest. I hope I can also contribute something. I am just rebuilding my house and I want to use OH as an integrating system and supplierer of smart funktions. The basic functions of my house (switches, windows,…) are currently contro…

Hi Robert, great! Thanks for the reply, I do hope we can solve some challanges together by sharing our experiences! Yes, I started on GitHub now. I have no much online yet, but I do have outlines the projects that I will work through over the next year as well as my first Wiki-Page with an Hardwar…

Hi, what is your idea about communication with all items? I’m doing the same and I’m using modbus, so one single cable (Ethernet cat 5e ftp) where two cables are reserves for modbus communication and the others are used for power distribution (15V). Items are sensor or actuator connected to Arduino…

Hi Philipp, as you know my current installation is wired. But all comfort function I‘ll realize with OH similar to your intension. I‘ve read the advises obove. Maybe I found a device that can support your dream working without any wire and mine as addition to the current wired solution. After my vac…

An altrnative could be, that your “relais” are programmed as “normally closed”. I have this in my home. That has the effect, that in case my home control system is “down” or “off” or " “disconnected” all lights switch “on” automatically. You can switch it off via the fuses in case it is not fixabl…

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It is amazing. Think i will start one for my home aswell. With codes and design papers and all. Even my manual for the wife