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Alexa and F&H is working. However, I cannot tell you where the limits are, as I do not use Alexa myself and do not recommend it.

You need to clarify your questions with the electrician. He is your contact person and knows the best ways. It is of no use to you if we advise you here on something and the electrician does not do it anyway. See the last 10 pages or so.

We have to do a lot ourselves later. The electrician should only prepare the minimum because of the costs. That's why I wanted to know what the minimum is that the electrician has to prepare so that there are no complications later. Can you say how the access point is connected? Only by bus?

I am desesperate.

What would you recommend to us?
Should we have Free@Home prepared by the electrician and later connect the decentralized actuators ourselves and connect and retrofit them with the bus cable laid by the electrician?

Free@Home:
+ Wired
+ Easy to retrofit if the bus cables are laid
+ Easy to program
+ Good weather station available
+ Controllable via Alexa

- Only 1 manufacturer
- Only certain partner systems compatible (Hue, Sonos)
- Automations are limited in complexity (probably also with Matter)
- More expensive than Matter

I think Matter will cost only half or one-third of Free@Home.

I have no experience with smart home systems so far.
I have only tried to read up and find out what will be best for us.

I don't know how bad or good such radio systems will work.

If everything is built on Matter with Thread, there should be a sufficient radio mesh so that there are no radio problems.

What would you say: is the more expensive Free@Home worth it or would the cheaper Matter radio system be sufficient?

You keep asking the same question here.
Which is actually just about fun/hobby.
And you simply cannot be advised on this.

If you feel like it and have the money to renovate a new build once it is finished, then do it.
If you don't feel like it, then leave it.

What does remodeling mean?
In both variants, you only have to replace the light switches and roller shutter switches with the smart version.

With F@H, you additionally have to connect the bus cable.

The electrician would already lay the bus cable to all switches in the new building.

I just want to avoid making the wrong decision.

It is no longer possible to retrofit the bus cable.
But I also don't want to spend a lot of money on the bus cable and then realize that a wireless smart home would have been enough for much less money.

What does remodeling mean? With both variants, you only have to replace the light switch and roller shutter switch with the smart version

If that is your idea of a smart home, I would really advise against it. Reasons: - A smart home hardly needs any push buttons - the layout of the switches would be completely different (classic partly 6 stacked, smart only one with different dimensions) - you still need various actuators (light, roller shutters, sockets, heating, ...) and sensors (temperature, window, presence, air quality, ...) So if you just want to put a few Shellys on the existing switch locations anyway, you don't need a bus cable.