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RE: Anyone using much Z-wave?
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Many of the other HA systems are equally closed & proprietary
too=E2=80=
=A6=20
> including some of the candidates I mentioned earlier; Clipsal CBUS
has=20
> traditionally been very secretive (a little bit less so now I believe)
Surprisingly, the C-Bus protocol and firmware libraries are pretty much=20
open source now. We have successfully written C code using GCC in Linux to=
=20
make use of some of the firmware library functions. We even discovered
an=20
"index off by one" bug that we have fixed and fed back to
Clipsal.
The idea of a native (still needs a PCI, CNI or SIM) C-Bus to X-10, say,=20
gateway is achievable.
Regards,
Kwong Li
li@xxxxxxx
Laser Business Systems Ltd.
http://www.laser.com
http://www.laserknx.com
http://www.cbus-shop.com
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