Re: C_Bus

["Frank Mc Alinden" <armagh@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin


>            
Your going to love it - but beware it's addictive and your
> system will expand rapidly, somewhat inversely to you bank balance

To be honest  i got that feeling as soon as i got my hands on the
gear...What bank balance ;-)......Actually  in HA terms the gear i
bought
was quite reasonable price wise...Its having to purchase the software
and
the pc interface that pushes the price up a bit...............

> it is very easy using xAP to 'map' phantom X10 devices to C-Bus
devices,
> so you could include control of C-Bus loads from HV. This will require
a
> PC to be running to do the mapping but as initially my gateway
also
> requires this it is already available.

As Mark says keep us informed on this one ..would be great to be able
to
send an x10 command from HV that could get converted to C_bus lingo....

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:40 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] C_Bus


> Hi Frank,
>
>
>
>            
Your going to love it - but beware it's addictive and your
> system will expand rapidly, somewhat inversely to you bank
balance.
>
>
>
>            
On the 'Minder' issue I haven't got one or played with one,
> so I am not sure what it's like to program. C-Bus itself has
inbuilt
> capabilities to link any switch to any lamp , many to one or one
to
> many. Dimming and preset levels as well as ramp times On and OFF can
all
> be done without a central controller. This is partly what makes C-Bus
so
> resilient. Some of the fancier switches e.g. the Neo's have the
ability
> to store 'scenes' within them and there is also a small wall
mounting
> scene controller available. For a lot of people no central controller
is
> needed. However more complex 'logical events' or particularly
timed
> events do require a controller, perhaps the Minder or a C-Touch
panel.
>
>
>
>            
Re the serial connection - as I mentioned the RS232
> interface is somewhat expensive (particularly in the UK) but
currently
> that or the even more expensive Ethernet interface is required to
> program the system using Clipsal's software.  The C-Bus SIM
is
> effectively a very low cost 'OEM' interface board to C-Bus providing
the
> serial interface capability and is what I am using in the xAP
gateway
> allowing bi-directional control and reporting of all the C-Bus
units.
> Initially I am developing the xAP gateway as a PC application that
> connects directly to the RS232 interface. Later it will become a
PC
> application that connects directly to the C-Bus SIM module and
then
> finally (all being well) I will code it to a PIC creating a small
plug
> in 'hardware' gateway that has two or three interfaces on it .
These
> will be C-Bus / xAP RS232 or RS485 / and possibly Ethernet.
>
>
>
>            
I currently control all my Clipsal loads via xAP and all the
> state change events are relayed back to xAP. Once in xAP of course
it
> makes it really easy to link to any other xAP capable device. Quite
what
> people will use as their HA controller/scheduler with xAP is their
> choice. For some it will be HomeVision with a  xAP connector or
perhaps
> Homeseer , ACE or Autom8it.  Whilst say HV will not include
support for
> C-Bus within its firmware (it is already a squeeze to get everything
in)
> it is very easy using xAP to 'map' phantom X10 devices to C-Bus
devices,
> so you could include control of C-Bus loads from HV. This will require
a
> PC to be running to do the mapping but as initially my gateway
also
> requires this it is already available.
>
>
>
>            
Kevin
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McCall [mailto:Mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 January 2003 10:33
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] C_Bus
>
>
>
> > HomeVision is a gem to program dont you think???
>
> Yes! :)
>
> > Maybe Kevin Hawkins or Rob Mouser have played with the
software??
>
> OK..thanks
>
> M.
>
>
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