RE: EIB

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Prices here:
http://www.eiba.com/en/ets3/index.html#prices
So no it's not cheap, but it is available. At least now there's proper
USB support instead of RS232-only (not every USB-RS232 adaptor worked
with it either)

Why doesn't it get discussed?
My guess is that the installed base within the group is very low. IIRC
David Buckley has installed some in the past and one, maybe two others
have. Coupled with the cost of the software and the lack of "training
course" benefits comparable to the Cbus course, I think EIB has fallen
out of favour. I don't think there were any technical/functional issues
though.

There's a fair bit in the archives which would refresh your memory with
some of the opinions involved :-)

FWIW I think it's a good system, very competent and extremely expandable
(think Canary Wharf and Jubilee line extension) but maybe it suffers
from that too, in that it's a large system scaling down, rather than a
small one scaling up.

Anyway, just my 2 Euro :-)

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Noble
>
> Martin Wonders wrote:
>
> > I know I've mentioned this before, in terms of who uses
> what Cbus or
> > EIB, but there seems to be a bias toward Cbus in this group.
> > I was wondering why EIB is rarely ever mentioned?
>
> Is it still the case that the commissioning software is
> hideously expensive/unobtainable?
>
> Jim