Vantage InFusion - anyone know anything about it?
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Looking at buying a farm house, great looking place with loads of land. As an added bonus/or drawback the whole house is connected via a Vantage home automation system. It controls the lights, electric gates, speakers in the roof, plus the sky/apple tv system. So rather than light switches you have these little LCD panel everywhere which is great for the inner geek in me. But after lots of googling not found much info online about the system.
It'll be great when its working, but if it goes t1ts up then I'll going to be facing a massive problem and huge bill I guess.
Fitted by sellers ex hubby who owned an home automation company so can assume it was done correctly.
any help or pointers appreciated.
cheers
It'll be great when its working, but if it goes t1ts up then I'll going to be facing a massive problem and huge bill I guess.
Fitted by sellers ex hubby who owned an home automation company so can assume it was done correctly.
any help or pointers appreciated.
cheers
Vantage is actually very big in the USA and last year (from memory) was bought by Legrand Electic.
There are at least two distributors of the system here in the UK, both of which I have access to, along with other here I know. So supporting it should be fine.
JUst done a quick google and supplier research (www.vantagecontrols.com if interested) and it looks to be thier current system and uses IP / PoE for at least its controllers, which is a good base as it is industry standard comms and powering.
Depending on how the electrics are wires you should have a bank of remote dimmers and switch modules, which will either control a local group of lights or a weird combination, this may seem odd but there is method to the madness. If a dimmer or swich pack fails, then it means you will not be without light totally in one area, just one circuit will be out in two or three areas. This then means you can operate in that area while you are waiting for it to be fixed.
Hope that give you a little more confidence in the brand and offering.
Out of interest, who is / was the company and where is the house, I might be able to ferret a little more.
V.
There are at least two distributors of the system here in the UK, both of which I have access to, along with other here I know. So supporting it should be fine.
JUst done a quick google and supplier research (www.vantagecontrols.com if interested) and it looks to be thier current system and uses IP / PoE for at least its controllers, which is a good base as it is industry standard comms and powering.
Depending on how the electrics are wires you should have a bank of remote dimmers and switch modules, which will either control a local group of lights or a weird combination, this may seem odd but there is method to the madness. If a dimmer or swich pack fails, then it means you will not be without light totally in one area, just one circuit will be out in two or three areas. This then means you can operate in that area while you are waiting for it to be fixed.
Hope that give you a little more confidence in the brand and offering.
Out of interest, who is / was the company and where is the house, I might be able to ferret a little more.
V.
VEX said:
Vantage is actually very big in the USA and last year (from memory) was bought by Legrand Electic.
There are at least two distributors of the system here in the UK, both of which I have access to, along with other here I know. So supporting it should be fine.
JUst done a quick google and supplier research (www.vantagecontrols.com if interested) and it looks to be thier current system and uses IP / PoE for at least its controllers, which is a good base as it is industry standard comms and powering.
Depending on how the electrics are wires you should have a bank of remote dimmers and switch modules, which will either control a local group of lights or a weird combination, this may seem odd but there is method to the madness. If a dimmer or swich pack fails, then it means you will not be without light totally in one area, just one circuit will be out in two or three areas. This then means you can operate in that area while you are waiting for it to be fixed.
Hope that give you a little more confidence in the brand and offering.
Out of interest, who is / was the company and where is the house, I might be able to ferret a little more.
V.
Company was Simkiss home automation. House is in Rishworth, West Yorkshire. There are at least two distributors of the system here in the UK, both of which I have access to, along with other here I know. So supporting it should be fine.
JUst done a quick google and supplier research (www.vantagecontrols.com if interested) and it looks to be thier current system and uses IP / PoE for at least its controllers, which is a good base as it is industry standard comms and powering.
Depending on how the electrics are wires you should have a bank of remote dimmers and switch modules, which will either control a local group of lights or a weird combination, this may seem odd but there is method to the madness. If a dimmer or swich pack fails, then it means you will not be without light totally in one area, just one circuit will be out in two or three areas. This then means you can operate in that area while you are waiting for it to be fixed.
Hope that give you a little more confidence in the brand and offering.
Out of interest, who is / was the company and where is the house, I might be able to ferret a little more.
V.
Thanks for the info, that gives me some reassurance that I can get support if needed. I'd certainly like to build upon the system and add other components, additional cameras etc
So basically, they have swallowed the Legrand catalogue and brands completely whole and not looked at the market to choose best of breed.
Nuvo, Bticino, MyHome and Vanatage are all Legrand Products. I do hate it when companies think they can offer home automation and solutions that meet everones needs, but only offer a very limited product mix.
Personally (and I know Chasingracecars, hopefully others) have a product agnostic offering, where we look at the need / desire / requirement and then provide best fit solutions, rather than try to shoehorn clients into a narrower product field (/rantoff)
V.
Nuvo, Bticino, MyHome and Vanatage are all Legrand Products. I do hate it when companies think they can offer home automation and solutions that meet everones needs, but only offer a very limited product mix.
Personally (and I know Chasingracecars, hopefully others) have a product agnostic offering, where we look at the need / desire / requirement and then provide best fit solutions, rather than try to shoehorn clients into a narrower product field (/rantoff)
V.
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