Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Smart plugs etc via powerline(-like) system (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by kraftfahrzeug@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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I am kind of taken aback by the growing wireless frequency clutter and was wondering if there are any smart plugs or other home automation devices that are controllable by just using the energy lines - like powerline. I mean you already have a rather reliable cable connection - why not just use it?

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[–] nclpl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Insteon and x10 both did this. There just aren’t enough benefits.

I have like 70 Lutron Caseta devices in my home (in a congested city with a UniFi WiFi system (4 APs) and a zigbee and a zwave network) and they’ve literally never once dropped a single command signal. Ever.

I think wireless congestion can be an issue for sure, but clearly there are ways to engineer around it that don’t involve powerline. Powerline brings too many of its own issues (latency, and poor signal reliability come to mind).