What is a Smart Home?
In today's world, convenience is paramount. We rely on smart technology daily, from motorized garage doors and keyless car entry to remote controls for TVs, DVD players, and air conditioners. But what about your home? Do you ever leave a light on, forget to dim the lights for a movie, or worry if you turned off the iron after leaving for work?
Clipsal C-Bus® Wireless offers a solution to make your home a smart home. It allows you to automate your entire home or individual rooms, adding convenience and functionality as your needs and budget allow. It's an affordable way to enhance your living experience.
Start with the Wow Factor: Entertainment
Enhance your lifestyle by focusing on areas your family enjoys most. For entertainment spaces like a home cinema or living room with a large TV, C-Bus® Wireless can create a "Hollywood-at-home" experience. Imagine dimming lights remotely from your seat while watching a movie. With C-Bus® Wireless light switches, you can control lamps and lights, create custom "scenes" (pre-set lighting levels) with a single button press, or use an "All Off" function to turn everything off conveniently.
Enhance Your Living Areas
Your kitchen, family room, and dining area are central to home life. C-Bus® Wireless brings a new level of convenience here with one-touch control for lights, lamps, and even appliances.
Features include:
- 'Welcome Home' Scene: Activate this scene from your car or garage to turn on entrance, kitchen, and family room lights automatically, ensuring you never come home to a dark house.
- 'TV' Scene: Dim or turn off lights to reduce glare for a better viewing experience.
- 'Dining' Scene: Create the perfect ambient lighting for entertaining guests or enjoying a meal.
Additionally, plug adaptors allow you to control appliances like coffee makers, fan heaters, or spa pumps remotely, adding further convenience.
The Number One Feature: Bedroom Comfort
Many C-Bus® owners cite the "Goodnight button" as their favorite feature. This allows you to turn off all lights throughout the house from the comfort of your bed. It's also useful for turning off a partner's bedside lamp without disturbing them.
Other bedroom benefits include:
- Bathroom Night Light: Turn on your ensuite light to a low level before getting out of bed to navigate safely in the dark.
- 'Night' Scene: Provides low-level lighting to avoid disturbing loved ones.
- 'All Off' at Door: A button near your bedroom door can turn off master bedroom, ensuite, walk-in wardrobe lights, and bedside lamps as you leave the room.
C-Bus Wireless Wall Switches, Plug Adaptors, and Remotes bring a new level of comfort and control to your daily life.
Protect Your Loved Ones
Enhance security and peace of mind for your family. If children need to get up at night, C-Bus® Wireless can illuminate their path to the toilet or bedroom by turning on bed lamps or passage lights remotely.
An "All On" scene can activate all lights and lamps with a single press if you hear a strange noise, deterring potential intruders. Night lights can be set with timers to turn off automatically after a preset time, or controlled remotely.
5 Simple Steps to a Smart Home
Implementing C-Bus® Wireless is straightforward:
- 1. Inform your electrician and builder that you want C-Bus® Wireless.
- 2. Decide which areas of your home you wish to automate.
- 3. Select your preferred Clipsal Saturn™ or Neo® switches and choose your colours.
- 4. Plan your system design and installation with your electrician.
- 5. Enjoy your new smart home!
Tip: Consider having your electrician revisit a few months after installation. You'll likely discover new features or additional switches you'd like to add as you become more familiar with the system.
Scene and Functionality Examples
C-Bus® Wireless offers versatile scenes and functions:
- All Off: Turns off all lights in the house and bedside lamps. Can also activate a dimly lit ensuite light for nighttime use.
- Welcome Home: Activate from your car or garage to turn on hallway, kitchen, and family room lights.
- Night Lights: Configure children's lights to turn off automatically after a set time. Lights can be turned on dimly from a bedside remote if needed.
- Dining: Set the perfect ambiance for dinner parties or romantic evenings with pre-set lighting levels.
- Goodbye: Turns off all lights, lamps, fan heaters, and appliances like the iron with a single command.
- Appliances & Electrical: Control coffee makers, fan heaters, spa pumps, water features, and garden lights remotely, from anywhere inside or outside the house.
- Home Theatre: Dim lamps and lights from your chair for an immersive movie experience.
Cruise Controls: Change with Your Lifestyle
C-Bus® Wireless allows your smart home to evolve with your lifestyle. You can start with a single room and expand gradually. Your electrician replaces standard switches with C-Bus® Wireless light switches, enabling your smart home to grow seamlessly.
For outdoor entertaining areas, add C-Bus® Wireless light switches to patio lights and plug adaptors for spa pumps or garden lights. Control everything with one button or via remote.
The system's "cruise controls" mean switches and plug adaptors communicate wirelessly, similar to a garage door opener. This allows for one-button activation of multiple lights and appliances at desired levels.
C-Bus® Wireless supports two-way and three-way switching, enabling you to control any light from any switch location in the house. For example, you can control a kitchen light from your lounge room or family room switch. These configurations can be easily changed at any time.
Product Options:
- Switches: Available in Clipsal Saturn™ or Neo® ranges, offering a variety of styles and the ability to mix and match surround and switch colours.
- Plug Adaptors: For controlling appliances.
- Remotes: For convenient wireless control.
Available Finishes/Colours for Switches and Accessories: Silver, Gold & Black, Gold & White, Black, Silver & Black, Mid Brown, Cream & Desert Sand, Cream, White.
[Textual description of the floor plan: A typical house layout is shown, including a Master Bedroom with Ensuite and Walk-in Robe (WIR), Bedroom 2, Family Room, Garage, Kitchen, Dining area, Home Theatre, Bedroom 3, Entrance, and WC/Laundry. This diagram illustrates potential locations for C-Bus Wireless control points and devices.]
Ask Your Electrician About C-Bus® Wireless
To learn more or to get started, consult your qualified electrician. Clipsal offers support through various showrooms:
Australia
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Clipsal Powerhouse Showroom SA
69 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, HILTON SA 5033
Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday
Ph: 08 8269 0751 -
Clipsal Powerhouse Showroom VIC
83-89 Queens Parade, NORTH FITZROY VIC 3068
Ph: 03 9207 3200 -
Clipsal Powerhouse Showroom NSW
4/142 James Ruse Drive, ROSE HILL NSW 2142
Open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday
*Visits and Clipspec consultations available by appointment only. Ph: 02 9891 6522 -
Adelaide Home Ideas Centre
113 Anzac Highway, ASHFORD SA 5035
Ph: 08 8297 1066 -
Brisbane Home Ideas Centre
66 Merivale Street, SOUTH BANK QLD 4101 (opposite Convention Centre)
Ph: 07 3844 9922 -
Geelong Home Ideas Centre
252 Thompson Road, NORTH GEELONG VIC 3215
Ph: 03 5278 8066 -
Hobart Home Ideas Centre
309 Liverpool Street, HOBART TAS 7000
Ph: 03 6231 2522 -
Launceston Home Ideas Centre
262 York Street, LAUNCESTON TAS 7250
Ph: 03 6333 0660 -
Melbourne Home Ideas
1686 Princes Highway, OAKLEIGH VIC 3166
Ph: 03 9544 9611 -
Perth Home Base Expo
55 Salvado Road, SUBIACO WA 6008
Ph: 08 9388 1088 -
Perth Home Ideas Centre City West
102 Railway Parade, WEST PERTH WA 6005
Ph: 08 9481 1111 -
Sydney Home Ideas Centre
61-63 O'Riordan Street, ALEXANDRIA NSW 2010
Ph: 02 9304 4900
New Zealand
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Christchurch Home Ideas Centre
37 Mandeville Street, RICCARTON
Ph: 03 348 2863 -
Auckland Home Ideas Centre
165 The Strand, PARNELL
Ph: 09 303 4755 -
Wellington Home Ideas Centre
Cnr The Esplanade and Hutt Road, WELLINGTON
Ph: 04 568 9607
For more information, visit clipsal.com/cis.
