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I'm currently having a new home built and am already well over budget. I would like to do a little automation of my heating and air and have been looking at the HAI omnistat2 thermostats. My H&A has 7 zones so I would need 7 thermostats and I would like to be able to control them from a single location as well as from the separate thermostats.
Right now you can get the Hai Promo3energy Energy Management Kit for a great price which includes: Lumina Pro Controller
# Dealer PC Access
# Lumina Mode Switch
# OmniTouch 5.7
# HLC Load Control Module
# Omnistat2(2-RC2000)
Then I would also have to purchase 5 more Omnistat2s. I wanted to keep my total cost under $4k and this is well under.
My heat and air guy could hook up the thermostats. The OmniTouch just requires a Cat 5 cable so I think I could do that one. I have no training in home automation but I'm pretty good at following directions.
Would I likely be getting in over my head getting this to work correctly or is it fairly staightforward. I'm mostly concerned about the software and setting everything up. Again I'm initially only planning to use this to control my heat and air systems. The company I'm using for my alarm system, phone, network cable etc quoted me a bit over $8K for a Lumina Pro panel and 7 Omnistats which would be tied in to my computer(No touchscreen).
Right now you can get the Hai Promo3energy Energy Management Kit for a great price which includes: Lumina Pro Controller
# Dealer PC Access
# Lumina Mode Switch
# OmniTouch 5.7
# HLC Load Control Module
# Omnistat2(2-RC2000)
Then I would also have to purchase 5 more Omnistat2s. I wanted to keep my total cost under $4k and this is well under.
My heat and air guy could hook up the thermostats. The OmniTouch just requires a Cat 5 cable so I think I could do that one. I have no training in home automation but I'm pretty good at following directions.

Would I likely be getting in over my head getting this to work correctly or is it fairly staightforward. I'm mostly concerned about the software and setting everything up. Again I'm initially only planning to use this to control my heat and air systems. The company I'm using for my alarm system, phone, network cable etc quoted me a bit over $8K for a Lumina Pro panel and 7 Omnistats which would be tied in to my computer(No touchscreen).