Automated home.

[Tomin Dotsson]

No commercial connection with them, except that the guy who wrote the programs is a mate of mine ...

[Rick Hughes]

I have a 'comfort' home automation system

... many on the market ... and that is the problem, no single standard.

[Brian Gaff]

Was he related to stirling Moss?

Brian

[harryagain]

What a load of useless bollix/woffle. Serves absolutely no purpose.

[Andrew Gabriel]

This is an area which is innovating fast and heavily using innovation to compete. That's not generally compatible with a "single standard", as it tends to be a blocker to innovation.

I've also installed a couple of Comfort systems - very good, but not cheap.

[Rick Hughes]

Might talk to you about that ... still have more to go

[dennis]

Because there are not FITs to sponge?

[harryagain]

So why bother? Just a geek's mad dream.

[Richard]

No more mad than yours.

[Adrian C]

This programme was well written...

George's House

[Tim Watts]

Lol - that is my feeling about gadgets.

I love them, but you need to be able to operate the house when the gadgets die.

[whisky-dave]

operate the house, well how about the gadgets that first let people lock doors, those gadgets still go wrong today a hundred years and we still can;t make locks that don't fail or keys that don't get lost or damaged ;-)

[Tim Watts]

Those gadgets ar eat least modular - you don't have to throw away all your locks because your front door latch died and you need to fit a new one.

[whisky-dave]

You lose the keys you change the locks and if you happen to keep those keys on the same key ring.

[harryagain]

Anyone that does this is barking mad. The same can be done bylow tech means for one hundredth of the cost.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Yes, that was something I was mindful of with my house. Heating and hot water are computer controlled, but I have an override button to force the boiler on and I could lock the mid position valve in the mid position, if the computer control failed. (The first system I did doesn't have that, but so far, none of the computers have failed in the 15 years these system have been running.)

Lighting is computer controlled too, but requires only a single micro- controller working. All the original lighting could very easily be reinstated with its original switching, but there are some newer lights which don't have mains wiring to the switches and some don't have any switches at all.

[Rick Hughes]

I had the Comfort system and all the addressable relays for free - so why wouldn't I ?