I worked quite a bit with automation in years past . . . and I'm not impressed. Most of the important things you need to check about your pool YOU have to check. It doesn't take long, but you can't automate it, this side of $20,000. There's hardly anything an automation system will do, remote switches and a brain can't do better.

To me, recent pool automation systems look like they are designed as surgical instruments for use in wallet-ectomies. I'd spend the money on an oversized DE filter, myself.