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These switches look quite cool, but since I know nothing
about
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C-Bus, how does it fit with X10, HomeVision and so on? Tried
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their web site but that sucks a bit...
It's been
around for
AGES. Been talked about for as long as I can rememeber being
interested in
HA. Seems it's finally becoming commercially available in a decent
range
of products at last.
It's a
hard-wired
Bus system. In comparison to X10 It should be much faster and very
reliable, but hard to retro fit and expensive. I have my house wired
for a
bus system with 2CAT5s to every lightswitch. But majority of other
existing houses will not be easily retro-fitted. HV cannot "talk"
C-Bus,
but there's no reason to think it couldn't using HV Serial or whatever in
the
future. I don't know whether C-Bus is an open standard or
not.
I'm trying to get more pricing
details.
M.