What are the best light modules?

Post by **brille** » Fri May 16, 2008 8:39 pm

Hi all

I have a number of SARTANO switches (and a few remotes) but that is not enough. I have just ordered a rexcom receiver/transmitter and I want to go rf with all my lights in the house.

So I would like to get input to witch line to select (SARTANO is properly not the smartest way to go.) I have looked at different lines such as:

www.nexa.se
http://www.homeeasy.eu/
http://www.klikonklikoff.com/
http://www.byebyestandby.co.uk/

There are a number of things which are important to me:
Relatively cheap
Available in Denmark/being shipped to Denmark
Danish plug (<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... hed%29.JPG>)
I want remotes which can select between several groups because I want to be able to control everything even if my server is not working. Ie a remote which can control more than 4-5 modules
I want small ceiling switches (http://www.homeeasy.eu/product_images/lg/HE304.jpg)
Any other important thing which you experts can tell me about

Looking forward to hear all your comments

Br
/Brille

Post by **TANE** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:11 pm

I think Homeeasy,kaku and nexa are the same.

I'm using Kaku
Price and quality is good.
Works fine with Rfxcom.
I have the basic remote..this one can control 16 devices

see my list of kaku products.

Post by **Digit** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:25 pm

Right, Homeeasy and KAKU A-series are identical, that's what i know.

Personally i don't have good experiences with these RF things. I used ELRO 60x series devices, but they let me down too often to call it reliable. So i'm moving to 2-way actors, powerline.

BTW, it wasn't the RFXCOM transmitter, but only the ELRO transmitter that didn't work well. With RFXCOM transmitter it worked ok. But i need something very very easy to switch the lights with that comes with the switches (for example for baby-sitters etc., who i don't want to give a lecture every time about using the Pronto)[:)]

Post by **brille** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:26 am

Thanks chak and digit for your insight,

I have good experience with rf but I need a high waf! (same issue as with the baby-sitters). Thats why I will use these: http://www.homeeasy.eu/product_images/lg/HE308.jpg for normal use and not the remotes (just for me..)

Any other comments are welcome

Post by **Jfn** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:56 am

Keep in mind that PLC is more reliable then RF.

Currently all equipment operating on 433 MHz (As is the KAKU stuff) is prone to interference from other devices. The 433 MHz (433.920 MHz to be precise) is a crowded frequency and it is not dedicated to remote-control stuff.

Although I bought some KAKU stuff just for fun to experiment with, I will be moving to PLC too.
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I have good experience with rf but I need a high waf! (same issue as with the baby-sitters). Thats why I will use these: http://www.homeeasy.eu/product_images/lg/HE308.jpg for normal use and not the remotes (just for me..)

Any other comments are welcome

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Als het niet gerepareerd kan worden dan is het niet kapot!

Post by **brille** » Sat May 17, 2008 10:17 am

For now I have simple RF devices with a small number of house-codes (and I have never had any problems so far) But I was thinking that the new devices I will get will be of the learning type (65mil+ codes) just to prevent interference from other devices.

Maybe I will later go for some more steady technology but for now rf devices will do (they are cheap and I am on a budget..)