RE: CBus control?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great thanks.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Hawkins
> Sent: 06 October 2006 14:07
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CBus control?
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> Paul Gale wrote:
> > Ah Ok (ignore my last email to you on the CBus-HV controller!)
> >
> > So, a hardware method would sound best in terms of resilience.
I've
> pretty much ruled out the Comfort route as I try to do as little HA
> programming in Comfort as possible - but do most in HomeVision or
> HomeSeer.
> >
> > Sounds like what I'm really after is the C-Bus to HomeVision
controller
> then.
> >
> Yep - probably suits you best - you could also run some macros (no
> hardware required) on HV to control C-Bus but it doesn't synch with
> C-Bus , maybe it tracks though.  Frank has some of these..
> > How will this store light states etc - in variables?
> No, currently I don't use any variables at all.  HomeVision with
latest
> ROM has Custom Lighting capabilities which means that you write macros
&
> control your C-Bus lighting in exactly the same way as for X10, ie
named
> lights .  Custom Lighting persay doesn't support triggering of HV's
> actions based on state change ONOFF but using the gateway you get this
> feature back. You can mix X10 and C-Bus lights and control either
within
> macros.
> > Will it also talk xAP/BSC in any way, or would I need to rely on
the HV
> plugin in HS and James' xAP plugin to do this?
> >
> You will currently rely on both the HV plugin for HomeSeer (HV>HS)
and
> also James' xAP plugin for HS (HS>xAP) to do this... However this
is
> just a code space issue and a case of feature priorities.
Interestingly
> ATM I have implemented  xAP BSC support for C-Bus and X10 control but
I
> may have to jettison this in favour of other more approriate features
if
> I run out of space.   The gateway is designed to be expandable
hardware
> wise, and can carry a piggyback board that holds a second
co-processor,
> indeed several if needed.  Thus I could add say xAP implemented in a
> slave co-processor.  The Rabbit processors are fairly low cost at
under
> =A350 so this could be an attractive upgrade path, but nothing even
> planned here yet.  The gateways will likely always remain in
> 'beta/development' state as they evolve over time.
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>     Kevin
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> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
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