{"id":2330,"date":"2016-05-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T21:47:39","slug":"week-29-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2330","title":{"rendered":"Week 29, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 29, Day 1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May Day Bank Holiday so none of the build team were on site, but I made some progress reviewing the lighting design and marking out for more of the light fittings<\/li>\n<li>I also settled on the core set of KNX control devices which will handle:\n<ul>\n<li>Lighting control (via the DALI protocol), accepting inputs from push-buttons and PIR sensors as well as Smartphones and Tablets<\/li>\n<li>Automatic control of the 5 clerestory windows, which are fitted with electric actuators (via an 8-way switching actuator which leaves room for 3 blinds)<\/li>\n<li>Automatic control of the heating circuits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A key benefit of the KNX protocol is that it&#8217;s a standard supported by multiple manufacturers &#8211; but that can make it hard to choose which particular devices to use. In the end I mostly opted for devices from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdt.de\/EN_Start.html\" target=\"_blank\">MDT<\/a> since their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdt.de\/EN_Dali_Gateway.html\" target=\"_blank\">KNX-DALI<\/a> interface seems particularly good (with a built-in\u00a0web server to make commissioning the DALI aspects easier than doing everything via KNX) and since they offer better value for money than some of the more established brand names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2331\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=2331\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2331\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160502T1500Z.jpg\" alt=\"Week 29, Day 1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160502T1500Z.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160502T1500Z-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160502T1500Z-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160502T1500Z-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160502T1500Z-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Week 29, Day 1<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 29, Day 1: May Day Bank Holiday so none of the build team were on site, but I made some progress reviewing the lighting design and marking out for more of the light fittings I also settled on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-automation","category-lighting-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}