Re: EIB versus CBUS

[Rob Heyes <mh001b4520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any reason why you've not considered Idratek? Or have you considered
it and rejected it?


shieldsauk wrote:
> I'm building an extension and am trying to decide between EIB and CBUS
and also possibly
> upgrading the LD11's in the rest of the house.
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> I feel that I have a pretty good idea of the capabilities and
requirements of CBUS having
> spent numerous hours reading the installation and configuration
documentation, however
> I don't know much about EIB.
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> Does anybody have any experience of this and ideally CBUS as a
comparison?
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> A few specific questions I have regarding EIB are:
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> 1) The bus cable appears quite expensive compared to CBUS cable so I'm
guessing this
> means it's not cat 5, Is this the case?  I had cat 5 run to each light
switch when we rewired
> some years ago and l'd like to be able to use it!
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> 2) Is programming of devices covered by the EIB standard or unique to
each manufacturer?
> It's all very well having kit from several sources interoperate but
not so good if I have to
> keep buying programming tools. Ideally I'd like to be able to purchase
an ethernet gateway
> and do all the programming via that from my PC.
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> 3) The CBUS literature makes a lot of noise about soft start on
dimmers, I would have
> thought that this would be pretty much standard these days - after all
LD11's have it at
> less then 30 quid a throw. Or do I need to check for each device.
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> 4)  I'm currently looking at the Hager TEBIS TX range. Anyone know if
these are any good
> or can recommend somebody else that does multi channel dimmers?
>
> TIA
> Alan Shields
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