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      06-18-2019, 09:57 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by dinonz View Post
Well, one thing mentioned is that it knows the orientation of your house, and which direction your windows face. So it could proactively lower shades on the sunny side of the house based on time of day and season, rather than just on a fixed schedule like others.

While subtle, it could lead to lower cooling costs etc. That's just one example of smarts that it has that the others don't - however, that's something that the others could develop (it's not rocket science). The ability to control air to individual rooms would take more to develop - however, that does require the hardware to be installed in the ducting to facilitate it, so that's not a simple solution (and probably one reason why Loxone isn't suitable for retrofits).
Both those examples already exists in Control4 land, not sure about Crestron or Savant. Hunter Douglas blinds can raise and lower based on schedules that can revolve around sunrise and sunset because the app knows where the system resides.

A friend of mine is building a house with 22 separate hydronic zones plus forced air all controlled by a Bryant Evolution system that then integrates with automation through a translator. This allows the highly specialized Bryant HVAC system to deal with heat zoning and precision pressure testing and balancing the ducts... the automation then just calls for cooling or heating. It also creates a clear line between the HVAC guys responsibilities and the automation guys responsibilities
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