Well I want to use it to control other things as well so I also need to fiddle to get a z-wave stick to work with the unit and so on

Having a Nibe I might just jump on the Domoticz bandwagon just because of this project. I have a Windows machine and a QNAP NAS that are on 24/7. I guess the windows machine is of little help here so it would need to be the QNAP NAS that would need to carry the server part. Is there any reason why ...