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XCoder
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
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