I do most of my shopping at Aartech here in Canada – they are about 35 minutes from my house and I can pick up which is nice…. There’s a lot of options in the US of course too
https://www.aartech.ca Paul From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> Reply-To: <af@afmug.com> Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 12:20 PM To: <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation What he said... From: Tushar Patel Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2017 6:40 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Home automation Do you have part list you used you can share? You mentioned Zwave. What else? Tushar On Jan 8, 2017, at 5:58 AM, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org> wrote: 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?