I'm in the process for rewiring my house and did some research. Zigbee and Z-Wave seem to offer best range of gadgets such as lamps and sensors, but they seem to be quite expensive (at least here in Finland), so I'm probably going to build my system with relays and dimmers from http://www.nexa.se/. They run on proprietary wireless protocol on 433MHz, but you can control them with a 3rd party usb transmitter: http://www.telldus.se/products.... The downside is that the gear running on 433MHz is unidirectional; you can't query the relays if they're on. The controller/gateway is going to be of my own design based on an Odroid C1 and Eclipse Kura or that's the plan anyway...
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I'm in the process for rewiring my house and did some research. Zigbee and Z-Wave seem to offer best range of gadgets such as lamps and sensors, but they seem to be quite expensive (at least here in Finland), so I'm probably going to build my system with relays and dimmers from http://www.nexa.se/. They run on proprietary wireless protocol on 433MHz, but you can control them with a 3rd party usb transmitter: http://www.telldus.se/products.... The downside is that the gear running on 433MHz is unidirectional; you can't query the relays if they're on. The controller/gateway is going to be of my own design based on an Odroid C1 and Eclipse Kura or that's the plan anyway...