Re: CBus xAP Plugin ?

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth Cook wrote:
> Is the a cbus xap plugin available ? Ive seen references to it but
cant
> find one - mebe it's vapourware ?
>
AFAIK there has never been a C-Bus to xAP software application or
plugin and I am not sure what you're trying to 'plug' it into. If it was
plugged into HomeSeer it would be a HomeSeer to C-Bus plugin.  Where
have you seen the references to this 'vapourware' ?  All the existing
interconnect applications use C-Gate as their gateway to C-Bus and hence
require a PC available 24/7 and are dependent on the features that
C-Gate exposes.  Also C-Gate is a chargeable application once you exceed
2 networks and each wireless segment adds a network to C-Bus.

What there is though is a (my) hardware embedded controller that
acts as a gateway between xAP and C-Bus - you might remember we spoke
about it on the phone a few weeks back.   That will allow realtime
control and monitoring of all your C-Bus groups within HomeSeer (v2)
although currently only a single non bridged C-Bus network is
supported.  Once I (and Clipsal UK) get wireless sorted out I intend to
expand that to support multiple bridged networks.  From HomeSeer you can
trigger / script C-Bus interaction and also onward to MainLobby or
XLobby which I think your using . Each individual C-Bus group is
effectively presented as a BSC device (Basic Status and Control) on
xAP.  This isn't perhaps the 'free' solution you were looking for though
as it has quite a substantial build cost including  licensing and
provision of the C-Bus onboard interface. It doesn't require a PC though
to get between xAP and C-Bus, (obviously HS introduces one though),
which makes it very resilient.

> Need to be able to control cbus from homeseer (already have the
> homeseer1.7 and xap working)
>
Will work fine - the only slight concern here is that we ceased
maintaining the xAP plugin for v1.7 HomeSeer once V2 was released. The
current plugin is for V2 only and has numerous enhancements and bug
fixes over the previous one. It's also entirely managed via the web
interface now.  There are still a few people using the old version but
it's not going to be supported any longer. I know you are somewhat tied
to HS v1.7 as the Comfort plugin AIUI has problems running on the later
versions and is not being updated.

Kevin
> ta
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> G.
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