Wayne Du Bruyn

Yesterday, KNX Association pushed Standard v3.0.5 out to its manufacturer members through MyKNX. Nobody's light switch changed behaviour overnight, and nothing on any bus I look after did either. That's normal. A protocol update like this ships to the people who build the devices first, and it takes a year or two to show up on a wall near you. But I read through what's actually in this one, and four parts of it are worth knowing about now, before they turn into a product on a shelf and a...

Every second house on an estate has one. A driveway light that fires every time a car passes on the road outside. A facade light that comes on for a cat, a moth, or a gardener three properties down. After a few months, everyone stops noticing it at all, which defeats the entire point of having it. That's not a faulty sensor. It's usually the wrong sensor for the spot, or the right sensor set up without thinking through what it's actually watching. KNX Association put out a piece on exactly...

CEDIA Expo wrapped in Denver on 4 September, and if you read past the AI headlines, one line kept repeating across almost every manufacturer briefing: new construction is cooling off, and retrofit isn't the fallback product line anymore. It's the roadmap. DMF Lighting said it outright, building its whole CEDIA presence around new retrofit-specific fixtures as a direct response to a slower new-build pipeline. CE Pro's own writeup from the show made the wider point: for several manufacturers on...