Software/LAN controlled relays for exterior lighting etc

[howartp]

Hi,

 

Does anyone (or anyone's site/premises teams) use any software/LAN controlled timers, eg for programming their exterior lighting for evening events etc?

 

We have Paxton door access and one option is to use the relays on those, then everything is all in the same software, but wondered if anyone else used others?

 

There's https://www.controlbyweb.com/ and I can look at Home Automation products I use - any others?

 

Peter

[Chris_]

Our outdoor lighting is just done on photocells and timeclocks.

[howartp]

So is ours presently, but we've a large site and only light areas depending whether there's lettings or events on.

 

The timeclocks or fishkeys are in at least 10 locations across the site that I can think of, some inside classrooms nearest to where the outside light(s) are, so it's understandably a pain for the site team.

[Chris_]

We use Ubiquiti mPorts (https://www.ubnt.com/mfi/mport/) for controlling some things (not lights, but they could do). In the central controller you can configure rules/schedules for turning things off/on.

 

When looking into this system I tried to find alternatives but struggled to find other reasonably priced systems that were also simple enough to program by ourselves.