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Users / Re: EnOcean + DALI + LinuxMCE, doable ?

« on: April 14, 2010, 07:59:41 pm »

Lighting is going to like this: general lighting provided with dimmable fluorescent lighting (indirect/direct fitting in cove spanning 1-2 walls in each room + kitchen) providing most of the lighting and then just few specific lights in workstations and so forth. This setup requires quite a few electronic ballasts (maybe about 10 or so) and there is not that much difference in 'regular' ballast vs. DALI ballast (about 50 euro a piece) and since new powerwiring is needed then there is little extra work to fit in the dali (just use 5 wire line instead of 3). In addition of ballasts the DALI controller is giving extra cost, but WAGO one seems reasonable.

With just EnOcean or ZWave setup there would be same amount of switches, but I would also require some sort of dimming actuators which cost around 80 euro or so (just quick look around net)... and since lighting setup would require about 4-5 or maybe even more lightgroups and the cost of these actuators would make the gap to DALI 'decent'. However, I am certainly no expert in home automation and might have understood whole thing wrong so any input is always apreciated.

But off course this whole setup is not really simple at all... if I wanted simple I would have just left the lighting as it was so there is indeed a strong 'experiment and tinker' attitude as well, which is why linuxmce also caught my eye.

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Users / Re: EnOcean + DALI + LinuxMCE, doable ?

« on: April 14, 2010, 08:46:52 am »

Batteries did put me off from z-wave and EnOcean also seems more reliable, but that can be just better marketing  , also price is not big obstacle since apartment is only 3 rooms so I am looking to fit prolly about 10 switches or so, maybe some electric blinds/PIR later. Idea is that linuxMCE would control more 'advanced' functions through DALI.

After quick internet browsing found DALI master and enocean modules from Wago which should work:
http://www.wago.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-41B192EC-3F263566/wago/style.xsl/fin-1903.htm
http://www.wago.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-41B192EC-3F263566/wago/style.xsl/fin-1901.htm

And even after power supply + fieldbus the total price would be lower than most DALI controllers around here... however if it could work with just enocean modules and KNX-dali gateway it would be simpler, but are you sure there is no need for EnOcean gateway between KNX-dali gateway and EnOcean 'net' ?

Also is there any english sites about this IPSymcon... quick look around the site didn't reveal any english manuals ?

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Users / EnOcean + DALI + LinuxMCE, doable ?

« on: April 13, 2010, 01:03:45 pm »

Have been lurking on forums for some time while renovating my apartment. Now it has come time to set up lighting and some electrical stuff.
Problem is that planned lighting is not really feasible on my existing wiring (especially control wiring) and in order to get things connected bus type solution like DALI would be optimal (since some new power wiring is needed so DALI wiring to light fixtures would create little extra trouble).
So in order to avoid new wiring for lightswotches wireless solution would be optimal and after checking both zwave and EnOcean out I am leaning on latter.

Now I am wondering how well LinuxMCE, DALI and EnOcean would work together. Have any of you set up this kind of system and how easy/hard it was, is it working out etc.
Also the wiki indicates that EnOcean works with LinuxMCE, but any personal experiences with enocean system would be apreciated as well.