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KNX is a global building automation platform built on open standards.
The knx.org parent organisation has 500 members in 190 countries building 8,000 products all certified to be compatible with each other.
Review: Zennio Tecla XL pushbuttons for KNX
The Zennio Tecla XL Late last year the Ivory Egg crew returned from Light + Building 2022 in Frankfurt with news of the Zennio Tecla XL, and it caught my eye. What’s not to love about the Aussie mounting compatibility, the sleek, sexy look, the distinct capacitive buttons, and – as I was to find …
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Our quest for the perfect light switch
We’re not even twelve months into our KNX journey, but we already have devices from over ten manufacturers of KNX gear all happily coexisting throughout the house. One of the first decisions we had to make was the choice of light switches. We had a few criteria, the main one being that the switches needed …
Stream Deck to KNX
I’ve blogged about our love affair with the Stream Deck programmable buttons before. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re a neat little “mini keyboard”, and under each key is a full-colour display. One of these will let you send a frequently-used key sequence with a gentle tap, and the inbuilt ‘Profiles’ allow it to …
Why KNX?
In What is this Home Automation stuff anyway? i mentioned the primitive electrical state of our new home. Whilst there were separate circuits for the fridge and wall oven, the rest of the two-storey house was fed with 1 lighting circuit and 1 power circuit per floor. Individual residual current breakers? No chance. The lighting …
What is this Home Automation stuff anyway?
At the start of 2022, Rocky and I bought a new home and moved in. (It’s 15 years old but it’s new to us.) To say it was rather devoid of technology was an understatement. It was almost entirely devoid of *lighting*, FFS! We’ve spent the year thus far making it a comfortable little “tech …
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