Houseboat in Trenčín — a residential vessel running on TapHome

A houseboat moored on the Kočkovce Canal, a side-branch of the Váh river near Trenčín. Peter Zajac (ELEXiO) completed the retrofit in the summer of 2025. The owner already ran a TapHome installation elsewhere, so the choice of system was settled from the start.

One system, one app

The enclosure holds one TapHome Core and one 12DO module, with a wind-and-brightness sensor on the roof. Cooling is a split unit behind an IntesisBox Modbus gateway, ventilation is the Atrea aMotion heat-recovery unit over Modbus TCP, and an Eastron SDM630 Modbus RTU meter reads electricity consumption. Everything reports into the same app.

The DAHUA camera system is integrated via HTTP Commands — an AI rule defined inside the camera calls an API when motion is detected in a marked region, and a virtual motion sensor appears in TapHome: targeted detection with no additional PIR sensors. The Paradox alarm and a single SONOS zone indoors run in the same environment.

Water runs through two servo valves — one on the main supply, one on the vent — with a frost-protection rule that guards the plumbing from freezing in winter. Outside, an automatic awning over the terrace retracts in strong wind and follows the sunlight measured by the rooftop sensor. A gate to the storage shed on the pier, for tenders and boating equipment, is likewise controlled through TapHome.