Smart home/electricity open standard

[E.S. Rosenberg]

For lighting you have DMX, X10 and zigbee as last mile protocols,
artnet and ACN as open ethernet protocols, all of which can be
controlled using the openlightingarchitecture.

Note that controlling every aspect of your house requires a very large
amount of wires, controllers etc. using control protocols that have a
multi-drop bus layout will reduce the wiring a bit but in the end they
still have a limit on the amount of devices connected to the bus and
by distributing the 'smartness' you also end up making troubleshooting
a lot harder.

2017-05-21 18:28 GMT+03:00 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>:
> In that case, I recommend you to have a look at KNX. As I said, it's the
> only wired+wireless protocol that is open, and is manufactured by multiple
> producers for tens of years.
> It even have REST/xml-rpc gateway standard.
> It's a bit expensive, and the official program to program KNX components is
> a bit expensive.
> There are open source versions, but I'm not sure how useable they are.
> OpenHab had KNX support.
>
>
> On Sun, May 21, 2017, 4:16 PM Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
>>
>> Just like many I have a dream to "wire" my house with smart devices to
>> control (and monitor) every aspect,
>> but unfortunately I didn't have the time to implement any of it (yet)
>>
>> but I keep my eyes open on the matter and I follow the HackADay blog to
>> learn about new stuff,
>> this is how I came across the sonoff devices which where the first devices
>> I purchase because the option to reprogram there firmware
>> and avoid the vendor lock problem which most of this devices have.
>>
>> The OpenHAB froums are also a great place to find devices which work
>> seamlessly with OpenHAB and find other hardware recommendation.
>>
>> --
>> Rabin
>>
>> On 21 May 2017 at 15:45, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> OpenHAB is a software that uses many protocols to control smart devices.
>>> If you have experience with some type of smart electricity, I'm sure
>>> it'll be interesting to everyone to hear it.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 21, 2017, 3:40 PM Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There are many implementation and non of them are open standard (iirc)
>>>> e.g - https://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-protocols/
>>>>
>>>> If you looking to start smart home project, you should probably start
>>>> with the server
>>>> which will manage and will the intermediate for all protocols and
>>>> devices -- one of them call OpenHAB
>>>>
>>>> some devices will require a firmware flashing to make them to work with
>>>> your "cloud" and not the vendor.
>>>>
>>>> one popular and cheep devices to start with are the Sonoff switches.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rabin
>>>>
>>>> On 21 May 2017 at 15:26, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That it would be reasonable to interact with it with open source tools
>>>>> or at least from open source OS, and that I would be able to purchase
>>>>> hardware from multiple vendors.
>>>>> It's not strictly requires an open protocol, but it's a good
>>>>> approximation.
>>>>> Read what I need to reasonably work with KNX, it's not just the wire
>>>>> protocol.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, May 21, 2017, 2:59 PM Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please clarify what do you mean by "open standard for smart home"
>>>>>> are you referring to the communication between devices ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Rabin
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 21 May 2017 at 14:29, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> Is there some open standard for smart home.
>>>>>>> The only thing I've seen which is close to open standard is KNX.
>>>>>>> But I'm not sure if there's a free/open source implementation of the
>>>>>>> standard ETS5 software used to configure KNX modules.
>>>>>>> Is the files specifying KNX hardware data, e.g., vd2, knxprod
>>>>>>> https://www.hqs.sbt.siemens.com/cps_product_data/data/search_find_en.htm are
>>>>>>> open standard?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone on this list know KNX?
>>>>>>> There are a few related open-source project, but I'm not sure if
>>>>>>> they're indeed working correctly, nor do I have sufficient understanding of
>>>>>>> the ETS/KNX configuration.
>>>>>>> Is there a more open standard for smart electricity?
>>>>>>>
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