Smarthome - General question of meaning

And of course you are completely free to drive your house as fast as you want. As you yourself describe, the behavior may also change over the years. A smart home can adapt to that or can possibly be adjusted to new needs with little effort. So you can drive a smart home as fast as you need it. A normal house, on the other hand, has only one speed. That’s what it’s about, getting more out of the house because the potential is there.

Yeah sure, basically that makes sense to me too, thankfully you once wrote something to me about it a while ago at my request. Not at all, I neither condemn nor generally judge it. Only for me and my very basic life, I cannot see a necessity that (and that’s what it’s about for me alone) would improve my life. It’s only about my/our life, how we like it, definitely not about how others should do it. Searching for it, dealing with it, having it installed, thinking about it, etc. would actually be "stress" for me, I have no desire for that at all. The same goes for cameras and all those things. Maybe I had too much of it in life or you change your habits as you get older. For me, the money for it would simply be too precious because I prefer to spend it elsewhere, like on the lime plaster, the great staircase, etc. It’s a matter of personal interests and priorities and there is no right or wrong in that. I would be very interested in experiencing such a house once, out of curiosity, but I don’t want to have/pay for it. For me, it’s like with the always new, modern car........ :D. I really like innovation and think it’s great that people look for possibilities. But I want my private life to be very individual and in many places simply (which is already the highest luxury compared to the global standard).

What can you imagine that could not be regulated manually?

Almost everything that can be regulated more precisely and in shorter time intervals with sensor technology than by hand and with divided human attention. This starts with air exchange, humidity and temperature regulation in interplay with weather forecasting and a parameterized shading that considers more than just "oh there is sun," sensor technology that switches off lights in rooms where no one is present, puts unnecessary electrical devices into a low-power state, runs required electrical devices in coordination with self-generated energy, manages a hot water storage tank according to an intelligent curve—depending on consumption behavior, weather forecast and self-generated energy... and much more. These are all things that save energy and an intelligent automation can do better than a resident who also has other things on their mind—e.g., simply living.

It’s not just the time saved. It’s many small things. The overall gained comfort is in the end greater than just the pure sum of the individual parts.

It is absolutely no question that intelligently controlled houses are more efficient and potentially more comfortable than conventional houses. I particularly appreciate intelligent controls in office buildings and in cars. That I consciously refrain from it is neither right nor wrong—it just suits us, since we live in our house in such a way that inside and outside flow into each other. In an open house, regulation doesn’t bring that much.

My experience is that it is almost impossible to operate the various intelligent systems in larger buildings without disruptions, so that the comfort case rarely occurs. It is almost like with multimorbid people, where the interactions of the various medications are difficult to manage. Something always fails and requires a technician's visit. :D

Then it's of course even better if the technician lives in the house right away. ;)

My experience is that it is almost impossible to operate different intelligent systems in larger buildings without disruptions, so that the comfort case rarely occurs.

My experience is quite different; I have worked for several weeks in some state-of-the-art and smart office buildings in Frankfurt, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and Munich, and I know a whole range of hotels and conference centers that have invested in smart control systems. It pays off here for both people and budget conservation. This is not rocket science, and of course there are people behind it who are responsible for the operation—I definitely do not want to be such a person at home.

My experience is that it is almost impossible to operate the various intelligent systems in larger buildings without faults, so that the comfort case rarely occurs.

You see, there you already have the strongest argument for one system or a real standard like KNX itself delivered: not operating different systems. Different systems or apps, for example for every single light bulb, are just painfully annoying in the long run. Although, based on what I have read from you so far, I would also factor in a good dose of reluctance towards such technology when evaluating your statement :)

On the rest, I agree with . And guess on which technical basis it mostly runs there... I hardly know any half-decent current office (even smaller ones!) that do without automated lighting and shading. And there, there would be a quick alarm if that didn’t work.