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The argument, at length.

We are asking owners to let a machine act on a building without being asked. That is a large request, and it deserves to be argued in public rather than asserted in a brochure. These are the pieces we would want to read before saying yes.

  1. Position paper4 September 202610 min

    Autonomy needs an audit log

    The argument against autonomous homes is not that the machine will be wrong. It is that you will not be able to find out why. That is a solvable engineering problem, and solving it is the whole licence to operate.

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  2. Technical note27 August 202611 min

    What your ETS project already knows

    A .knxproj file is treated as a wiring record. Read properly, it is a structural model of the building — and the single cheapest path to a house that understands itself.

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  3. Essay12 August 20269 min

    The scene is the problem

    Every high-end control system in the world is built on an abstraction that cannot learn. That is not a bug in Control4 or KNX. It is the ceiling of the idea itself.

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