Wired Home Automation solution?

[KAKAN]

I'm in the market for building wired home automation, but I'm unable to find any standards that are used in India. Even most electricians just recommend going wireless.
KNX, which is a popular standard in European countries, is almost non-existent here, and imported switches are expensive.
OneWire protocol might be possible, but then again, not sure how many actually support that either.

There are some projects online like:

GetWired

A complete solution for easy-to-use and affordable wired home automation

www.crowdsupply.com

And even some upcoming ones like:

Open Smart Kit

Open source, flexible, modular hardware modules with Home Assistant compatibility for any of your automation needs

www.crowdsupply.com

Right now, GetWired looks to be the most promising option. Aside from that, I suppose the best way would be to just have Ethernet wires to all rooms in a house and hope there's some standard in the future like GetWired which can act as a hub per room and communicate to a local HA instance using Ethernet.

Of course, a smart home should be "smart", so in case of failures, manual overrides are a must, whether that be using a 2 state relay, or some other method

Spoiler

There are many reasons one would want to build wired home automation, so please don't say in the thread to go for wireless.

 

[sato1986]

Hello

I was in same dilemma when i wanted to automate my lighting and fans showroom: 250+ light points, 30+ fan points, aircon, security, and alot more.

Ps: My knowledge of open-source automation, proxmox, and many apps which people use, is very very LOW plus since it's a showroom, i wanted it to programmable easily without me ever going there for any hiccups.

So I took quotations from brands which we are dealing with :
1. Goldmedal
2. Havells Crabtree
3. Osum
4. Schneider

We also compared many many options which we sell in wireless. But you are right,
Wired automation has no comparison with wireless automation.
Wired is overall better. Period.

We settled for a brand and specific modules which suited our requirement. One-size cannot fit all here.

Now il list the type of solutions different brands offer:
Knx
Bus Bro
SL Bus

Each solution has pros n cons.
It's a very very indepth topic and selection depends on in things like
1. Tech know howto do automations on your own
2. Architect has given electrical looping layout?
3. Lighting plans and lighting budget
4. Area
5. Devices
6. Budget
7. Pre-sales services
8. Post sale services in your region
9. Over the cloud tech support
10. Space for distribution box
11. Spaces for switches
12. Spaces for controllers/keypads/buttons

If you can put things here, i can answer, as it will help me also learn new things from automation experienced members here on TE.