Plain-English answers to the questions we get on site — written after the visit, not from a brochure.
Most “dead” C-Bus systems are not dead. Here is what to check, what never to touch, and why the work legally has to be done by a licensed electrician.
Read the article →They are not competitors. One is a wired backbone, the other hides behind a light switch. Confusing them is how people waste money.
Read the article →Alarm, cameras, lighting, blinds, intercom — each installed by a different trade, each with its own app. Here is how that happens, and how to undo it.
Read the article →Not a sales word. It means reading someone else’s project, rebuilding the database, and documenting a house that nobody has documented for fifteen years.
Read the article →Two small boxes, twenty years apart, and only one of them is worth keeping when you put a C-Bus house on a phone.
Read the article →The lights still work. The app does not. Almost always it is the gateway, the vendor, or the network — not the C-Bus wiring in your walls.
Read the article →Half the kitchen lights are out. Here is the actual sequence of measurements that tells you whether it is a channel, a module, a power supply or the load itself.
Read the article →What we touch, what we never touch, how long it takes, and what your house looks like when we leave.
Read the article →Most C-Bus houses only use 60% of what they already own. Here is the rest of it, and what it costs to switch on.
Read the article →A C-Bus system with nobody watching it is exactly how these systems end up abandoned. Here is what the monthly fee actually buys.
Read the article →The lights work, the panels look dated, and the building inspector said nothing. What to check in the first week — and the one mistake that costs thousands.
Read the article →Have a question you want answered properly? Ask us — if it is a common one, it becomes an article.
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