My house used to run purely on Control4 system .. professionally installed and quite expensive. I got sick of $125 service calls for rather simple stuff to be done and decided to replace it with a DYI system…. The Control4 system with labour and service calls etc set me back around $25k in total.
Right now with the DYI system I have probably $4k invested plus my time … at most. Zero monthly subscription, zero headaches …. And no service calls. The one part though that I think a lot of folks overlook (as I did) is working with electrical in your house … I replaced outlets and switches for example and the zwave stuff I used is much deeper than normal switches – I wish now that I had just hired an electrician to mess around with that stuff in particular as it’s not something I do every day kind of thing …. I know someone in my area that does home automation for a living … done it for years. He is very busy … his main clients are folks who have cottages and wish to remotely control/monitor their properties especially during times they are not visiting it very much … Paul From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Joe Novak <jno...@lrcomm.com> Reply-To: <af@afmug.com> Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 4:13 PM To: <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/ Just reading that a little bit may peak your interest in the DIY stuff. I am considering setting up a system at home. https://home-assistant.io/ is the software I'd like to use to run it. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:48 PM, jay weekley <iluvbroadb...@gmail.com> wrote: That's what I was wondering. I look at the stuff Lowe's and wonder how many people have the knowledge to set it all up but I have zero knowledge in the products. Maybe it's time to automate my thermostat. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote: There is so much do it yourself gear out there now I would think the only money would be in the very high end stuff. Things you probably have to focus as a sole business. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 10:23 AM jay weekley <iluvbroadb...@gmail.com> wrote: Is there any real money to be made in home automation? Any recurring revenue? How about headaches and problems?
