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Does this include vacuums

I have two dysons. Does that count?

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Mona I think you need to start a separate thread for vacuums lol


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Yeah and a new TV shop called "What to do with all your vaccumms"!

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Great idea thank you!

Hi all.. I've been stalking these forums for a bit now and hopefully have my own thread Soon

The following would be my automation Wishlist which may grow and change overtime as there are some many things that can be done .

1. Samsung smart Hub - that will become the automation hub.

2. Amazon Echo - that will be the audio interface connected to smart hub so u can do voice commands to control e.g Amazon turn TV On , Amazon turn lights on etc ....


3. Philips hue or Osram lights - to control lights , dimmer and color by the app or Amazon echo voice

4.TV added to S. smart hub to control TV. Has to be a compatible Smart TV

5. Samsung motion sensor to control as a security sensor when I'm away

6. CCTV - I'm thinking of adding one outside only that connects to the hub. I haven't found the right product yet.

7. Heating and Cooling - again would depend on the model and if compactible would be able to control thermostats to control heating and cooling

-not having a theatre room so not doing much there however you can find a Boss System that can be interfered easily to this if you want audio. Amazon echo has a built in speaker as well so can easily talk to it to play track etc .

IFTTT platform provides a good platform for pre scheduling and automation with using these devices and good thing to check out as well .

Good to find the automation fans ... Who are also Glendale fans

Amazon echo is a must to make the whole solution easier rather than having many apps controlling individual devices ...

I still haven't found something good in automated blind options so if if there are any thoughts or options out there .. Would be good to find out more !!!

And yep does come down to the $$$ ... Although most things are fairly reasonably priced vs spending the same on some of the builder upgrade options

I had a robo vac. Walk into the room one day and it smelt like it was burning hair. I clean it every day so was a bit concerned sent it back to store. They said they would fix it. Told them I didn't want it as I felt it was a hazard. Never got my money back and never picked it up. Won't do that again. We got ducted vac plus I have both a large Dyson and a stick Dyson.


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Yup they advertise C-Bus in their showrooms but it is indeed $50k (WTH)!

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I had C-bus throughout my last place which I built 12 years ago. Whilst the theory is great, in practice we didn't use it to it's full.

Even then it was ridiculously expensive but it was conected to the cytech comfort automation system so we could phone the house and turn the lights on or even set up the holiday mode to randomly turn lights on on different days.

This house is very different with only a small LAN, a couple of mobotix POE cameras (inc door station). Underfloor hydronic heating (inc upstairs bathrooms) with small duct high velocity AC in the bed / study / theatre controlled by a KNX bus. Ducted hide a hose vac (this is brilliant) and motorised windows in the void.

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