I used X10 successfully for years, but gradually it became more and more unreliable, which seems to be a familiar story as we all pile more stuff onto our home's electrical system.
I've gone for Clipsal C-Bus2 for all the lighting, which involved rewiring all the lighting circuits and putting in new Cat-5 connected switches. Almost finished that, and its proving to be very reliable.
For the mains sockets, C-Bus2 only allows 10A, not 13A, which worries me a little, and rewiring every socket back to a central point would be hugely disruptive, so I'm thinking about plug-in modules as most of the ones I'd want to automate are out of sight. The X10 AD10 type ones seem to break quite often, and miss signals too often in my house, so what would people recommend, Z-wave, or one of the newer systems?
I've gone for Clipsal C-Bus2 for all the lighting, which involved rewiring all the lighting circuits and putting in new Cat-5 connected switches. Almost finished that, and its proving to be very reliable.
For the mains sockets, C-Bus2 only allows 10A, not 13A, which worries me a little, and rewiring every socket back to a central point would be hugely disruptive, so I'm thinking about plug-in modules as most of the ones I'd want to automate are out of sight. The X10 AD10 type ones seem to break quite often, and miss signals too often in my house, so what would people recommend, Z-wave, or one of the newer systems?
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