We are in the process of designing our house with Ichijo and I'm considering what sort of home automation / smart home to add.
I have experience with Home Assistant, so I want things that are compatible with that. I already found out about Echonet Lite (the protocol that many Japanese machines use) which also has a Home Assistant integration. It seems that higher-end ACs and the Eco Cute water heaters are covered with this. Also Ichijo's 24h air circulation system (ロスガード) might also support it (I think HEMS-support is mostly equivalent to Echonet Lite, but correct me if I'm wrong).
Smart switches: I found that the Panasonic Advance Series (~アドバンス シリーズ~) switches have a Hub (~リンクプラス用無線アダプタ~) that ~supports EchonetLite~~, and our architect confirmed that we can use these. The regular ones are cheap (~2000 yen) but the ones that can dim are pretty pricey (20,000 yen). But the switch-to-hub connection is Bluetooth, which might be unreliable (or require multiple hubs/repeaters).~
Smart breaker box: to measure electricity usage per breaker. Panasonic Smart Cosmo (~スマートコスモ~) has WiFi built in and has ~EchonetLite~~, but a bit pricey (~150,000 yen).~
How does this sound? Any experience with any of these? Or any other ideas or recommendations?
by Ok_Philosopher_7716