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Users / Re: Hard-wired IP light switches???
« on: February 07, 2008, 01:52:23 am »I'm looking for, and have been unable to find, IP light switches. And more importantly, when I do find them, is LMCE going to be able to use them... that is if they exist...
Background: I'm currently building a house and starting the structured wiring in a couple of weeks, and have yet to install LMCE but I will when the house is finished and the core is built. I think I do not want to use X10 or Zwave for my lighting because I think I want each light switch to have it's own rj45 port. My google-fu is usually decent, but I am unable to find these devices...
If I am dense, tell me, but I would think this would be the ideal and best set up for my situation...
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Light switches are usually part of a system. You would have a network hookup into some single part of the system, rather than for everydevice. For example CBus from Clipsal has each lightswitch and controller talking to each other via it's own private Cat5 network which carries it's own proprietry protocol. To talk to the system, you would add a network connector. This gives you a single RJ45 to connect to the computer network, and then sends commands down the CBus network. With one of these in the system, you can talk to every CBus device from your computer.
Most other systems would follow a similar philosophy.
Best Regards,
Richard.