Re: Re: xPL/xAP an alternative to C-Bu$ ?

["David Gumbrell" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No Idratek dimmer yet. They told me the prototypes for the single dimmer
were being tested now.

X10 control from Idranet is not dependant on xPL (which is not to underplay
how cool that will be). With the X10 gateway you can control X10 devices in
reflex programs. Or Cortex can use the PC com port - in both case you have
to use a CM12.

CBUS would be different -- although you can use the PCIF RS-232 interface
as
an RS-232 gateway, not just as a PC interface, so depending what you need
to
pump into the CBUS RS-232 interface (I'm not familiar with it), you could
potentially control CBUS directly.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
>    > From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
>    > There is also Idratek, same cost bracket as X10 and
>    > designed for UK back boxes. Does luck fugly though.
>
>  Do Idratek have a dimmer pack or module ? - perhaps I missed that, I
know
> they didn't last year ..
>
> I guess when they have xPL you could onwardly link to X10 or even
> C-Bus / other hardware dimmers. This would require a bit of smarts for
the
> true interaction within the Idratek network and programming language
> environment though.
>
>