It all started when I drove a nail into an upstairs water pipe (honest!). So while the insurance guys had the living room ceiling down, I thought it the ideal time to install some "universal" wiring, as the room is central and connects to all the others. Big fat speaker leads, multipurpose multicores, phone wires, high quality scarts. A "spare" cupboard directly above this room was ideal for the slc500 and I'm using a Red Lion colour hmi. Hardware in, now the fun begins! I found an ir remote kit for the lights, which has a multiway pnp o/p receiver board, that connects to the slc. The new ceiling now has an octagon of recessed lights, each of which is individually dimmable (32 steps) from groups of six of the pnp o/p's of the slc, which control home-made d-a converters. I was going to use 8 (much tidier), but the total sweep time in single scan increments was too long. The next thing to go will be the old central heating controller. There's a solar water system on the roof, so control of that will be included soon. The latest arrival is a 1kW wind genny and a Trace (they really are the business) inverter/charger, so that's a few more inputs used. So many wires, but good fun!