Re: Modbus or OPC interface

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

IIRC, Dupline is a subset of Modbus. If so, Harmony2007's Dupline
Component
might work for you.

[Disclosure: I'm heavily involved with Harmony2007 + comoponents]

Rob


2008/11/14 Richard Challis <richard@xxxxxxx>

>   Hello,
>
> Normally lurk on this list, but time to ask a question!
>
> I have an early Homevision system that I haven't upgraded in a long
time.
> The other half is interested in my proposal for increased control of
the
> house esp energy management. I also have a couple of PLC's that was
ripped
> out of my previous house and never recommissioned. They can either
talk a
> simple serial protocol that I can port to OPC or Ethernet to a
protocol
> called DF1.
>
> I have been looking at the XL package for Homevision, Homeseer, XAP
etc. As
> I feel presenting data in a web format is the most flexible for my
everyday
> use.
>
> One thing is as an automation engineer, all the industrial kit I have
> either
> surplus or scrounged over the years. Lots of the gear talks either
Modbus
> or
> I would use a OPC interface to talk to a SCADA package. Nothing in the
HA
> world seems to talk Modbus or OPC. I have found several posts on the
> homeseer forum about Modbus.
>
> For instance, I have a kWh meter that does have a pulse on it, but in
the
> interest of complicating the issue, I normally keep away from pulses
as
> things get out of sync and prefer to read the memory straight out of
the
> meter. This is done via Modbus on the RS485 interface. I also have a
RS485
> to Ethernet gateway.
>
> Is there anything I can run that will talk Modbus to XAP/XPL or OPC to
the
> same.
>
> Is there an easy way of parsing serial data into XAP or homeseer.
>
> Done a fair bit of googling, but my brain is now really confused.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
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>
>
>



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