Anyone Dabble In Home Automation - Maybe Vera (ZWave) In Particular?

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velvetfoot

Minister of Fire
Dec 5, 2005
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Sand Lake, NY
I had some X10 modules years ago - not too reliable.
I read ZWave might be better.
Looking to tie it into a DSC alarm system, to turn on lights, send emails, etc.
Has potential to do a bunch of other stuff as well.
Read that it's possible with the Vera system.
Or, is a home server the way to go ultimately.
All this stuff can get expensive.
Pretty sure I'm not going to spend the money and time on this stuff.

Opinions?
 
Since you are looking at getting both automation and security, you might look into Elk. Their higher end panels will do some automation as well.
 
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