RE: CBUS joy!

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

PAC from Australia

Kevins gateway for the xAP (thanks Kevin)

The inital programming was done by my electrician (Ben) and was mostly
groups based. I have now changed almost everything to be scene based rather
than group based. I have all DLTs so I have defined everything as action
tags to get the labelling working for scenes (nice). Most rooms now have 3
scenes and an all off button on the first page. This gives consistent
layout
throught the house which is good for wife/nanny/cleaner and means we turn
lights off occasionally (if you need to turn 5 groups off to make a room
dark it stops happening).

Next steps -
Arming alarm (confort) -> all lights off
DLT to control open/close of curtains via comfort.
Possibly control aircon via dlt's.
Irrigation is via 4 CBUS relay but not sceduled yet - B&W touchscreen
for
this.

I am still tempted to write my own automation system to replace homeseer in
java. Homeseer seems (even now) a little flakey and overly X10 based. We
shall see.

Chris

>From: "Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "UKHA_D Group" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CBUS joy!
>Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:58:16 -0000
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>Hi Chris.
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>Sounds like you're pretty much where I want to be before the year is
out...
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>Couple of quick questions if I may?...
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>Whare did you get your PAC
>How do you integrate CBUS with Homeseer - is that via xAP?
>How much of the programming have you done yourself?
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>Cheers.
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>Paul G.
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of christopher purves
>Sent: Mon 06/02/2006 12:18
>To: UKHA_D Group
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CBUS joy!
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>Talking of CBUS moments - I completed (ish) the programming of the
house
>over the weekend. The results can only be described as stunning. Every
room
>is scene based. We had John Cullen (lighting design company) do the
>lighting
>diagrams for the house - read at least 4-5 lighting circuits per room 
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>just looks gorgeous. Just about finiahed (95%) all the PIR programming
too
>so low level lights come on at night to light way to bathrooms etc.
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>Very **very** happy. Even the wife is happy.
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>Now putting the finishing touches to the system with the XAP gateway
and a
>little bit of homeseer and PAC programming.
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>Chris
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