Re: HA Primer - Pos and cons of X-10, Z-wave, Insteon, UPB

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani) wrote:

>In article <46323d29.1225548062@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) writes:
>
>| I have no idea what "Home PNP" is. Google spits up non HA related links.
>
>Home PnP was an additional layer of "semantics" for CEBus to allow better
>interoperability between vendors proposed (IIRC) about ten years ago.  In
>conjunction with proprietary power increases in the transmitters it made
>CEBus what it is today, i.e., not much.  In theory Home PnP was protocol-
>independent and I thought it somehow merged with some other specification,
>but I didn't keep track.

Thanks. Googling on "CEBus Home PNP" only turns up one relevant URL from 7
years ago. I'm not surprised that I'd never heard of it.

     http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/aug00/articles/cebus/yong.htm