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I have C-Bus in my new house. It's very cool. The light switches,
movement sensors, light sensors etc are cabled in a loop with Cat-5 and
individual (or pairs) of lights are on there own circuit that come back
to a central point. A single switch can be programmed to control a
single or multiple lighting circuits. Although proprietary I've
installed the C-Gate application on my server which will allow me (I
haven't bought the Ethernet/C-Bus bridge yet) to control and reprogram
any lights via telnet commands. From this point it should be easy to
write a script controlled by lirc or a plugin for MythTV.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Dave.<br>
<br>
David Whyte wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have been investigating zigbee. From what I could tell, the right
*stuff* to interface with a zigbee device has been in the 2.6 kernel
for a while but I have issues finding the consumer oriented products
to integrate it into my home. I.e I cant seem to find light-switches
etc, that will just hook in with a zigbee device attached to my linux
Pc. X10 seems the most mature and simplistic way to go to me, even
here in AU. Another option though is clipsal C-Bus but that seems too
proprietary for my liking.
Cheers,
Whytey
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<pre wrap="">Hi
Has anyone achieved or looked into Zigbee integration with MythTV for Home
Automation?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee</a> Zigbee is a wireless system which is
arguably more secure than X10 (Which to me can be simply
overcome by plugging into the mains of a external device such as a
light....exposing the whole X10 system! Sorry X10!) A mains
filter is said to reduce security concerns however not the aforementioned
exploit.
Zigbee on the other hand is a mesh network of low range wireless devices.
It may be that it is a better network than the 802.11
series as the radio mesh can be localised to the area of interest with
minimised wider broadcast capability / exposure.
Kind regards
The Tortise
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