Re:How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi
by analog31 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:15AM
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I don't know what kind of relays you're using, but most relays tend to fail in a closed position, so it's worth considering what happens if a light is turned on continuously. Also, hardware or software failure in the RPi could turn on all of the lights in your house, e.g., if the same software running on every unit encounters a bug.
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Re:How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi
by kamil_gorski on Sunday October 23, 2016 @08:25AM
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And for those cases I decided to place wall switches in parallel. As automation fails you can still operate all lights with classic, wall switch, way.
Also, solution for jamming relays are SSRs. In practice there were issues only with two biggest light zones with multiple lamps switched at the same time.