Re: KNXLive! an open soirce alternative to ETS

[Neil Cherry <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 Sep 2006 04:38:07 -0700, Xcode wrote:
> 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).

>  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

I'll add this information to my pages in a few days. Good work and
thanks!

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