![]() ![]() It’s fantastic and limited only to my limited NodeRed experience but as un-intuative as NodeRed is at first, I can see that with a lot of time and self application anything could be possible with it. It turned out to be something really silly, mislabeling of the I/O on the tutorial nodes. After many hours of tearing my hair out trying to get the PLC to react to NodeRed inputs i finally got it to work and now it’s a piece of cake. Stubbornly I ordered another Unipi 1.1 and had another go. Which excites me and fills me with fear all at the same time… With an open source route like Unipi I feel I’m gonna be very much on my own as it hasn’t been so widely adopted and there will be a lot of trial and error. Also the products are tried and tested and, in theory, should work straight out the box. Also they have good forum support and online documentation to help first timers like myself. But I may be wrong on this because they have all these units which apparently opens up to modbus etc. The Loxone system seem pretty “closed”, expecially if you want to take advantage of their biggest draw, the Tree topology. I see you’ve got Loxone units sticking out there…How do you find it?Ī couple weeks ago I was ready to buy a miniserver and start playing with it when I slowly started going off it because something like the Unipi seems to give me so much more choice when it comes to switches and lights etc. There isn’t really any way of knowing until it’s all finished! I’m already dreading how I’m gonna plan the layout so it looks all nice and tidy when I’m still figuring out what hardware is going in. I was thinking of possibly custom building the cabinet around all the kit once I have most of it in. The new house will have a big Utility room so space should not be a problem, I’ve got approximately 1.2w x 2.5h x 0.6d which needs to house the Solaredge, the 230V distribution board, UFH manifold on the floor and then of course all of this “Smart” stuff. I am a big fan though and thanks to HA it’s possible to partly automate the washing machine and dishwasher to make good use of the power while it’s being generated. I’ve got solar panels in my current house but no battery, in the UK the generation is very poor in winter and the house I’m building isn’t positioned particularly well for solar but I have a good installer that I’ll get back onsite once the main structure is up. I’ve seen the MeanWell power supplies but wasn’t certain if I should go for the slightly bigger ones. In your renovation design you probably need to figure in lets say a 600h x 600w x 300d electrical cabinet here and there PLUS consider the possibility of a battery installation if that idea appeals to you.įor example I have a converted 60 pole switchboard plus 2x Standard Size Australian meter boxes plus 2 x smaller meter boxes PLUS, PLUS, it just goes on. ![]() ![]() Putting that all on Solar would also make sense? IE: same spots as your PLC Extension and relay boards will be.īut that depends on your overall budget of course. Then run a suitably sized 24V mains right through your entire house with sub-boards at strategic spots. If you are going for DC lights as well I would recommend you should consider investing in a correctly sized 24VDC Battery Storage System…that would work on quite a number of levels in my mind. Instead I run them on my UPS protected supply. I use 5 amp 24VDC (din mount) power supplies which are capable of battery backup but I haven’t used that feature. ![]()
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