Best retrofit smart home new build

Is opus only EnOcean? So everything without battery or power? For light switches, roller shutters, etc. that are connected to power anyway, I want an in-wall version or to replace the switch. What radio standard does opus use? Is opus also compatible with other manufacturers? Does opus also create a mesh radio network like, for example, Z-Wave?

OPUS is EnOcean. You replace your previous switches with switches that have actuators inside. Google it, it covers a lot and fits into normal switch programs.

Ok, I will look into opus. If opus is EnOcean, you can probably integrate EnOcean products from other manufacturers as well, like the window handle from hoppe, for example? Does the opus gateway operate through a cloud?

Does the opus gateway run through a cloud?

No. You only need that if you want to control the system with third-party devices. It works independently in itself, including the interconnections.

When I read this again, I often ask myself why anyone builds with property developers at all. Usually, one makes the investment of their life and ends up heavily in debt, often to a borderline extent, only to accept what the well-meaning developer kindly grants you. For that amount of money, I somehow would not want to accept such a take-it-or-leave-it approach.

The considerate developer builds exactly what sells like hot cakes: a Golf with only those extras ordered by more than a third of customers. This satisfactorily covers the needs of the classic developer row house clientele.

That customers currently end up with developer offers that do not correspond to their desired profile due to the market situation is not the developers’ fault. It is also not practical to respond to this by generally taking Tourans as base models instead of Golfs.

A common trigger for moving into one’s own home is the approaching “delivery date” of child number 2 – when the child starts kindergarten, the house should be finished. Currently, searching for a plot often takes longer than expected, but you can hardly freeze a pregnant woman. So taking an interim house is a good solution.

I only see the mistake where the interim house is not seen as such and there is an attempt at all costs to turn it into the optimal house, no matter how inefficient and unsatisfactory the outcome.

When it comes to smart homes, I would install Loxone again at any time. Loxone also works excellently as a retrofit solution.

I also have it here in our house and would never want anything else again.

Enocean is a tricky thing, since with this protocol unfortunately everyone develops their own little thing, as it was never standardized.