RE: [SPAM]Re: HV to CBUS

["Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the delayed reply Kevin, I've been busy and out and about
this
week.

> It's likely to be circa =A3150.=20

That sounds fine to me to get the functionality into HV. :)

> Better would be a cut down board with just one serial port and maybe
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> Ethernet that I could bring in at under half that price. Let me=20
> investigate what options I might have here.

Even better! :P

TBH the cost is secondary as long as it's not a crazy price, the fact that
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I
can do it is of far more importance.

> PS If you are comfortable involving a PC then the xAP C-Bus board
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> available and can work with several free and commercial software=20
> packages . To use HV and C-Bus together this way the recommended
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> is probably HomeSeer.
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I don't like to rely on a PC for anything absolutely critical, like lights
working, as they have a bad habit of falling over leaving me getting grief
over the failure and desperately trying to put it right. Very low WAF when
it happens and, what with moving to CBUS for more reliability (that's the
excuse to the other half) as well as speed and pretty switches, if it
suddenly grinds to halt because the PC decides not to play the impression
o=
f
it will not be high. Apart from which I'm away a fair bit from home so I'm
not about to put it right quite often.

Apart from which I don't use Homeseer, never liked it, so I use ACE
(ancien=
t
copy, I really must update it) linked to HV software for ancillary tasks
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d
TTS, none of which are critical to the operation of lighting or heating
which is all solely hardware controlled and it just works. Except in a
remote area of the house which, for some reason, is an X10 blackspot which
is another reason to move to CBUS.

I may also use RF in a couple of places as it's just far more sensible than
ripping apart the walls, so having that available to me would be
advantageous.

K.