[abollaert]

I used a combination of Arduino boards (Atmega controllers), Velleman dimmers and a Velleman relay board to control all the lights in my home, with pushbutton switches that have feedback LEDs. Then I wrote an application on top of that (running off an AT91SAM9 dev board) that implements mood combinations, also exposing a protocolbuffers/http based API (events are IP multicast) that I use to control everything with my Android phone. I also use it to configure the Arduino's (and upgrade them remotely using avrdude). It's still not completely finished, but so far it's been working quite well for me. The central application runs in an OSGi container, and exposes every light and mood as a service, so I would like to plug some light sensors into it so I can let it control some lights automatically (for example the one at the front door). I was lucky enough that I knew what I was going to need so all the wires were in place when I needed them. For future additions I think I'm going to have a look at Z-Wave or Zigbee.

[lemming]

I take my hat off to you, sir.

[gabelerner]

what brand of pushbutton switches with feedback LEDs did you use?

[abollaert]

I used switches from CJC systems (a small Belgian company, a friend of mine designs prints for them, so I was able to get my hands on a few of them for the sake of my "experiment").

http://www.cjcsystems.com/index.php?page=Products&catid=...

[gabelerner]

cool thanks!