01-01-2019, 05:29 PM
The RA2 system gets you a good bit of stuff. Some of these I don't have a lot of knowledge about. Some that I would go with are:
1. Hue for colored lights. And you could use it for the occasional other thing that the RA2 system might not provide but where you need wireless. It's Zigbee based so more reliable than Z-Wave.
2. For voice control, the Echo is likely the only one you would want to use if you are installing for other people. Of course that also means setting up their network to allow it and such.
3. If you are doing wired door locks, then access would have to be through the automation system. How you'd do that I'm not sure. There's no keypad in that scenario. Of course if you mean literally doing it remotely, they could do that with WebRIVA set up for secure connections and just open the door for them.
4. Irrigation there are folks here who do that and can give you some useful info. Some folks just use the Elk to control actuators, and use the irrigation driver to control the Elk.
5. On the media front, I think that three of those are all basically a matrix switcher. Or maybe two of them, one for audio and one for video perhaps.
1. Hue for colored lights. And you could use it for the occasional other thing that the RA2 system might not provide but where you need wireless. It's Zigbee based so more reliable than Z-Wave.
2. For voice control, the Echo is likely the only one you would want to use if you are installing for other people. Of course that also means setting up their network to allow it and such.
3. If you are doing wired door locks, then access would have to be through the automation system. How you'd do that I'm not sure. There's no keypad in that scenario. Of course if you mean literally doing it remotely, they could do that with WebRIVA set up for secure connections and just open the door for them.
4. Irrigation there are folks here who do that and can give you some useful info. Some folks just use the Elk to control actuators, and use the irrigation driver to control the Elk.
5. On the media front, I think that three of those are all basically a matrix switcher. Or maybe two of them, one for audio and one for video perhaps.
Dean Roddey
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