KNXLive! an open source alternative to ETS

["XCoder" <sandro.salari@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi to all.

I'm newby on home automation but not in embedded system.   After some
research on BUS technology I chose to start from KNX (for the fully
complies to the EN 50090 series, the European Standard for Home and
Building Electronic Systems and ISO/IEC 14543).  I chose KNX also for
high availability of devices producers (as ABB and Siemens). But when I
tried to search for system programming and integration I found that all
people talking about the use a commercial software (ETS) and
API(Falcon) made from KNX Association (http://www.konnex.org/). I'm
disappointed: open standard and closed resources...

 ...but other search...

 and I found an open alternative based on Linux OS, called KNXLive!
(http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/Projects/hba/knxlive.html).

I enjoyed...

KNXLive is based on Knoppix 3.9
The CD contains, pre-installed and ready to run:
 - A BCU1/PEI16 device driver
 - An EIBnet/IP Tunnelling server ("Tweety"), which uses a BCU 1 with
serial interface for EIB access
 - A Java Library ("Calimero") for accessing EIBnet/IP Tunnelling
servers, handling group data exchange using popular data point types
and maintaining a simple point database
 - A graphical demonstration client for Calimero
 - A tool set for writing and downloading BCU applications, RAD-style
("BCU SDK")
 - The powerful EIB access daemon ("eibd") of the BCU SDK

I'm studying this system and BCU SDK, a set of tools useful for
programming BCU
(http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~mkoegler/index.php/bcus).

I start this new topic to collect experiences and opinion about this
ETS alternative

Good work...
See you soon