Manatarms123
2022-04-28 09:23:44
- #1
Hello,
we are currently building a semi-detached house with a developer.
Our assigned electrician does not offer smart home (he only wants to do the standard electrical installation) (that's just how it is with developers).
However, we would like to have a simple "smart home" (I know smart home is the wrong term) or retrofit it later.
Our new building is supposed to be handed over before March 2023.
What options do we have for retrofitting a smart home?
What do you think of the new smart home standard Matter?
I can already imagine that Matter can replace the current wireless smart home protocols (Zigbee and Z-Wave).
As an alternative to Matter, I could imagine Enocean.
What do you think of EnOcean? I like the idea of it being batteryless.
Which smart home wireless standard would you say is future-proof and could recommend to me?
I do not have to set up the smart home immediately after handing over the house; I can also do it after about a year (in case Matter is delayed).
We actually only want to cover the standard functions:
Light switches
Sockets
Roller shutter control (we have electric roller shutters everywhere)
Window contacts (preferably invisible in the handle with handle position detection)
Underfloor heating controller
Weather station
Video doorbell (to retrofit ourselves)
possibly also a door lock (e.g., Nuki)
All of this should then also work together with smaller simple automations.
You would advise against Homematic IP because only one manufacturer is behind the technology, right?
To be able to retrofit later, what do we need to have prepared by the electrician during the new build?
Since these are retrofit systems, not much, right?
I think we should have the electrician prepare the following:
- Deep flush-mounted boxes to be able to retrofit the smart home technology?
- only simple light switches installed (I have never seen these toggle switches on smart light switches where you can switch a light on and off from right and left)
- sufficient LAN cabling
What else do we need to consider?
Thank you very much for your help so that we don’t make mistakes.
A wired smart home like e.g. KNX is unfortunately not offered by the electrician (it would probably be too much and too expensive for us anyway). We do not have the biggest smart home demands; we just want to increase our comfort a bit, and of course, it is a bit of a toy.
we are currently building a semi-detached house with a developer.
Our assigned electrician does not offer smart home (he only wants to do the standard electrical installation) (that's just how it is with developers).
However, we would like to have a simple "smart home" (I know smart home is the wrong term) or retrofit it later.
Our new building is supposed to be handed over before March 2023.
What options do we have for retrofitting a smart home?
What do you think of the new smart home standard Matter?
I can already imagine that Matter can replace the current wireless smart home protocols (Zigbee and Z-Wave).
As an alternative to Matter, I could imagine Enocean.
What do you think of EnOcean? I like the idea of it being batteryless.
Which smart home wireless standard would you say is future-proof and could recommend to me?
I do not have to set up the smart home immediately after handing over the house; I can also do it after about a year (in case Matter is delayed).
We actually only want to cover the standard functions:
Light switches
Sockets
Roller shutter control (we have electric roller shutters everywhere)
Window contacts (preferably invisible in the handle with handle position detection)
Underfloor heating controller
Weather station
Video doorbell (to retrofit ourselves)
possibly also a door lock (e.g., Nuki)
All of this should then also work together with smaller simple automations.
You would advise against Homematic IP because only one manufacturer is behind the technology, right?
To be able to retrofit later, what do we need to have prepared by the electrician during the new build?
Since these are retrofit systems, not much, right?
I think we should have the electrician prepare the following:
- Deep flush-mounted boxes to be able to retrofit the smart home technology?
- only simple light switches installed (I have never seen these toggle switches on smart light switches where you can switch a light on and off from right and left)
- sufficient LAN cabling
What else do we need to consider?
Thank you very much for your help so that we don’t make mistakes.
A wired smart home like e.g. KNX is unfortunately not offered by the electrician (it would probably be too much and too expensive for us anyway). We do not have the biggest smart home demands; we just want to increase our comfort a bit, and of course, it is a bit of a toy.