Good grief... who would sign up for such a thing? The biggest lighting system I worked on was Philips Dynalite. It's a gigantic RS-485 bus - you just make sure all the dimmers and light switch panels are on the segment. It can be over a kilometre long and you can control/reprogram everything from everywhere on that bus. The protocol is simple enough that you can bit-bang subsets of it from dumb devices. Do recommend.
I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System
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#12What is a wireless lighting system? What is the advantage of such a system over a switch next to the door?
E: A wireless lighting systems seems to be a light bulb with WiFi capabilities.
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#13I have just two of these lights, both phillip hue's, and Alexa. They are pretty problematic, but they are the best solution I've found in my two lights, which are dim lamps that I turn on and off frequently when I cannot reach them.
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#14What is a wireless lighting system? What is the advantage of such a system over a switch next to the door? E: A wireless lighting systems seems to be a light bulb with WiFi capabilities.
It's an interesting academic exercise / hobby. Beyond that, nothing.
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#15This has got me riled.
1. I hope all this electronic and plastic junk gets properly recycled.
2. Learn to be more prudent with your money.
3. £6k would have funded a lot of solar lights in developing countries through SolarAid or similar.
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#16He had it coming as he chose a proprietary locked-up system such as z-wave.
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#17Worked on a project for Kazakhstani real estate company to make a cheap "smart home" solution. Went for 100% wired installation exactly because of that. Second problem was every "star" topology hugely increases wiring cost, so a bus it was, and with bus came a problem of software MAC not being performant enough even to send audio, electrical isolation, CSMA... Long story I can't wait for 802.3cg
>Long story
It sounds like a story I'd like to hear more of, if you've the time
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#18If his house is in Dick place, I delivered "the Scotsman" to former owners every morning before school for years in the 1970s.
There was an albino blackbird living in the neighbourhood.
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#19a few days ago I helped my neighbour install some light fixtures in her house. She was sold some smart lightbulbs with it because you can dim them and change the light color a bit from a remote control. There are 6 or 8 lightbulbs next to each others. I'm impressed how unreliable this tech is. Standing 2 meters away from the lightbulbs, I had to press 3 or 4 times the off button to turn them all off. I just don't und…
Depends on the bulbs. Our Philips Hue bulbs (ZigBee) work perfectly fine. None of the issues you or the OP describes are an issue: they continue to work as regular bulbs if the hub fails, can be paired via Bluetooth app without proximity to the hub, and seem to have a lot of range. Best thing is that no wiring/electrician is necessary.
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#20What is a wireless lighting system? What is the advantage of such a system over a switch next to the door? E: A wireless lighting systems seems to be a light bulb with WiFi capabilities.
It's solutionism.