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    how should I wire for lighting and HA, to keep options open

    Hi all, I'm remodeling my 1500sq ft, 3 bedroom house in San Francisco, back to the studs, and am thinking about getting some type of HA controller or hub such as an ELk, Omni pro, homekit, homeseer , CQC, loxone etc next year. It will be non-dealer installed whatever solution I choose.   As some...
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    what are the best options for smart dimmers for small house..caseta?

    I'm remodeling my 1500sq ft, 3 bedroom house in San Francisco, back to the studs, and am thinking about getting some type of HA hub such as an ELk, Omni pro, homekit, homeseer , CQC, or even loxone next year,   As part of this I'd like to automate some of my lighting. Is Caseta the best option ...
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    nest vs ecobee or other for HA integration?

    Hi all I'm remodeling my house and am thinking about a smart thermostat. I'm not sure if we'll benefit the learning features, as we seem to change the temp. a lot, which means remote control or alexa may come in handy for.   I'm thinking of getting some type of HA hub, ELk, Omni pro, homekit, or...
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    what's the benefit of smart lock HA integration?

    hi all, I'd like to get a smart lock / deadbolt for a new front door, as part of a remodel, and am also thinking that I may add some form of Home Control/Automatiomn this year as well. Is there a benefit to picking a lock that can integrate to an overall Home automation system, such as Elk, omni...
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    what do you recommend for whole house audio, for local and streaming services (spotify etc)

    I’m trying to setup a multi room audio around the house (6-10 zones) with high quality in a single listening room and background music elsewhere. By high quality I mean using a DAC in the $500 range. Current music is all FLAC / ALAC to an Airport Express to a receiver using itunes. I'd like to...
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    Front ends for HA controllers?

    Hi all, I've been trying to get myself educated on Home Automation and from reading several posts from the last few months, I've noticed that in general for a solid HA system you are recomending going with either Elk M1 or a HAI omni pro II, as a hardware controller, and then using homeseer, or...
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    New user, designing a whole house audio/video/home automation project

    Hi everyone, I’m new to this and really looking forward to this new hobby. I have read a books’ worth of posts on CQC, Main lobby, Homeseer, JRMC, Windows media center, XBMC, AppleTV and so on and now would really appreciate some help in the direction of my system. I also made a small previous...
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    new to forum, lots of reasearch done, would appreciate some basic help to start

    Hi all, This is my first post after doing months of research and any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks My system will initially be 8-10 zones of audio (5 synced hopefully) and 2 zones of video fed from a server to clients connected to the TVs, and then I will expand to the rest of HA. I...
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