Re: Alarm to connect to CBus (excluding Comfort)

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh Cool, thats alright then I thought you were going to say somewhere
expensive....I stay in hotels like that all the time!!! lol :)

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> > Can someone please tell me what kind of hotels i need to stay in
to
> > see cbus kit!!! lol ;)
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> The last one I worked on was a series of rooms that went for between
=A3930
> and =A31100 *PER NIGHT* each, had a colour touchscreen on the wall,
C-Bus
> multi room audio in there and a couple of 8 channel dimmers and a
twelve
> channel relay in each ...
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> >=20
> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > The security aspect of C-Bus has always intrigued me.  Is
there some
> > > device or application that can report losses of devices on a
C-Bus
> > > network and also prevent new devices being introduced ?  
Maybe an
> > > encrypted C-Bus or something ?
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> > > Presumably an install like Wembley must have had these
issues
resolved.
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> There were a number of steps that were taken with Wembley - the most
obvious
> being that there are very few actual points where you could easily (as
a
> "punter") tap in to the network itself (i.e. switch
locations in public
> areas) but there are other things implemented too including custom
C-Bus
> hardware to handle loss of network situations etc.
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> > > I always wondered if I checked into a C-Bus wired hotel with
C-Bus
> > > toolkit on my laptop what access I could get to their C-Bus
network
> > from
> > > the lightswitch cabling...
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> What you have to realise is that a hotel tends to be multiple repeated
> instances of exactly the same setup for each room and it would also
tend to
> be a system which would be controlled by a "proper"
commercial SCADA
head
> end control system so typically what you would have is each room
being its
> own self contained C-Bus network and having a C-Bus Ethernet gateway
giving
> an Ethernet link back to the head end. Hence, the worst you could do
would
> be reprogram your own room and the head end can be set up so as to
be able
> to remedy that pretty easily.
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> Phil
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