Alright, in a first basic version, of course the KNX cable should be present everywhere. Next to every door there is at least one KNX bus coupler. Then there will be 3 venetian blinds in the living room and roller shutters everywhere else. Venetian blinds and roller shutters need wind sensors, measurement of sun intensity (= weather station?) and possibly also a weather forecast for the day?
In my opinion, there should be an away mode that is switched centrally at the entrance. All roller shutters are then set to automatic (venetian blinds open or closed, depending on whether it is the heating or cooling season) and certain sockets are disconnected from the power supply (stove, oven, TV, ...).
In the hallway and staircase we’ll just try it with motion or presence detectors. I still want to install the flush-mounted bus coupler so that switching to manual is still possible later.
It probably makes sense, because of future changes, to make all light sources dimmable? Maybe I want to turn on only half the light in the hallway later, etc...
Expansion stages would then be:
- Window contacts (mainly to indicate at the entrance whether a window is still open when leaving the house – or do window contacts make sense for anything else?)
- Integrate smoke detectors
At the front door I would actually stick to conventional. Mechanical key.
We would probably install a Wolf CWL (300 or 400) and a Rotex HPSU compact. The latter has a cooling function and hygiene water storage. How can this be integrated sensibly or are these devices not suitable? Possibly we would still switch to a geothermal heat pump (model unknown).
Washing machine, dryer and kitchen appliances will all be newly purchased, so that a specific model can be bought here which has bus connection.
One more question, I thought KNX should be laid out in a star topology? Now you’re talking about an open ring per room? Should power be star-shaped and KNX ring-shaped per room?