Re: Beta testers wanted ..HomeVision to C-Bus to xAP (to HomeSeer etc)

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ATM I have asked people interested in the xAP / C-Bus / HomeVision
gateways to use this list for questions and support  etc . The list is
not too busy and I reasoned the information could be of interest to
others. I hope to ship over 20 gateways next week which in itself is
quite motivating ,  interestingly there's quite a few people using these
via xAP for getting C-Bus into HomeSeer so I expect a few HomeSeer
questions too for James' or Michaels' xAP plugin.

The initial version will use (and abuse) the xAP v1.2 UID format. I need
over 2000 sub addresses as HV offers so much I/O  and program variables
in blocks of 256 items, plus C-Bus of course.   When the expanded UID
tolerant hub is released I shall be moving to that format with a big
'yeah' !      E - you can see now why I'm a little worried by automatic
BSC device creation in applications.

I am however concious that I have a commercial interest in this
product.  I use that term lightly though as I am not a company and I
don't make any real money on these as they are sold at near cost. I may
make a bit more later with software add ons though.   If anyone has any
concerns re using this list then post or drop me a line - it's dead easy
for me to set up another group just for the gateways. If there's too
many [OT] HomeVision/C-Bus ie non xAP questions then I'll also think again.

Kevin

Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Hi,
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> At last (only taken 18 months !)  I've just got a new batch of
gateways
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> There will be a new release of the firmware for these and I am
> interested in getting beta testing participation from interested
people
> , in particular HomeVision users attaching to C-Bus (or xAP).  The new
> versions will offer gateway facilities between any permutation of
these
> three and later I hope to add a couple more serial devices too .
> Basically it's a box that attaches between HomeVision, C-Bus and
> Ethernet and allows HomeVision to fully integrate C-Bus control and
> realtime tracking including macros and actions etc , almost the same
way
> HV offers this for X10 . The C-Bus processing is all done within the
> gateway so doesn't load HV and doesn't require any macros at all.  A
> fully configured gateway is circa £200 inc the C-Bus interface.
BTW
> there is no obligation to keep the unit should you not wish after the
beta.
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> If anyone is interested drop me an email offlist  .  I'll get some
> details up on the web site soon too - including pictures and
functionality.
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> beta <at> ukusa <dot> co <dot> uk
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> Kevin
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