Planning electrical systems to be future-proof

conventional electrics are more like a 10-20 year old diesel than a beautiful vintage car :p

Then rather the horse-drawn carriage. That fits wonderfully with the conventional. The 10-20 year old diesel usually has more automation in it than you might think.

Although I would always prefer the 10-year-old diesel to modern cars that control me at every turn. It's quite similar with the automation of the house; there are some things I can imagine being automated, others not.

Here you show very well where the line is drawn between the imposed automation by the manufacturer (island systems like Somfy, Rademacher, Bosch etc.) and the freely designable and open systems like KNX, Z-Wave, etc.

With the former, it’s take it or leave it, and if you want the car (home automation from manufacturer XY), then you have to live with the external control and the shortcomings of the system. Waiting for updates that will never come and missing important functions or having to adapt yourself.

With the latter, it’s different; you can map and change everything exactly as you wish and not according to some manufacturer.

Before selecting the socket, make sure that it can be installed accurately and completely flush with the wall in the new building and does not protrude ugly by a few centimeters like the old systems.

Before selecting the socket, make sure that it can be installed accurately and completely flush with the wall in the new building, and not like the old systems, where they unsightly protrude a few centimeters.

What do you mean by that and what does it have to do with future-proofing?

Before choosing the socket, make sure that it can also be installed accurately and completely flush with the wall in new buildings, and not, like the old systems, stick out ugly by a few centimeters.

But you need special flush-mounted boxes for that and have to pay a good amount. It's stylish, but it would be far behind smart home on my priority list.

Before selecting the socket, make sure that it can be installed accurately and completely flush with the wall in new buildings, and not, like the old systems, protruding ugly by a few centimeters.

a few centimeters, you hopefully don't mean surface-mounted? The 1 cm build-up serves to feel the position of the switch in the dark.

some cm, you hopefully don't mean surface mounting? The 1 cm build-up serves to feel the position of the switch in darkness

Search for Gira E2 flat installation. The design then only protrudes 3.4mm above the wall. However, special flush-mounting boxes are needed.