In other cases, you should seriously consider Loxone. We can’t make the choice for you, but if you intend to live in your new home for longer than a few years and you can do the initial investment, then Fibaro, Control4 and KNX seems like the way forward. Sometimes their representative on phone don’t know their system and failed to answer. No customer feedback at all from loxone in case of system queries or required live help.You cannot install yourself at home unless you have a very good experience unlike other systems which require little knowledge before installing.If the central unit fails, all else fails as well: no lights, no music, no shades, no nothing, as compare to KNX which is a decentralized system and works regardless of central unit fails.If Loxone ever stops its business or chooses updated standards, older hardware may become obsolete and/or difficult to maintain.Choosing loxone would limit products availability because it does only support loxone as compare to other products such as control4 or KNX support multiple devices and open source software.Can be cost-effective if the built-in features are sufficient.The system uses a star topology as well.SVV-cable, which is harder to use for other types of solutions.Can talk to KNX systems (to a certain extent).Relatively new but rapidly growing system.It’s a centralized system, control from one central system.However, that also implies limitations in terms of other choices: wired (KNX, LAN), wireless (Loxone Air, ModbusTCP connected to WLAN) and own. Looking purely at initial investment, Loxone may be the more interesting choice. The LOXONE company is a manufacturer of home and building automation. Here we only discussed Loxone smart home review with comparison against other system.
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