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Re: Insteon and MisterHouse
by Marc MERLIN-7
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:49:27PM +0300, liran tal wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I first focused at ZWave as I figured it would be "easy" to integrate it
> with the LinuxMCE product but after realizing it almost doesn't have a
> "proper" linux based solution to interact with the ZWave components I've
> decided to let it go.
Actually, from what I've been told, Zwave does work reasonably well with
misterhouse.
You should go through http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/Insteon which will
answer most of your questions.
> I have read that MisterHouse would work (only) with the Insteon PLM which
> plugs into the Serial Port of a computer on one side and on the other side
> to the electrical system.
Correct.
> Is MisterHouse the "control" software, as in, comparable to what heyu
> is for X10? (i.e: I can run on/off/dim commands via MisterHouse's perl
> scripts?)
Yes.
> I have seen Insteon wireless devices... how does that fits in the puzzle?
> How can these be controlled via MisterHouse? (is there an alternative to
> the PLM device which doesn't connect to the electrical wiring but rather
> it has wireless instead?)
See
http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/Insteon#toc5
and
http://www.insteon.net/about-howitworks.html
In a nutshell, insteon uses wireless access points to bridge your phases,
and those in turn are also used as bridges to wireless only devices.
Marc
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> Hey,
>
> I first focused at ZWave as I figured it would be "easy" to integrate it
> with the LinuxMCE product but after realizing it almost doesn't have a
> "proper" linux based solution to interact with the ZWave components I've
> decided to let it go.
Actually, from what I've been told, Zwave does work reasonably well with
misterhouse.
You should go through http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/Insteon which will
answer most of your questions.
> I have read that MisterHouse would work (only) with the Insteon PLM which
> plugs into the Serial Port of a computer on one side and on the other side
> to the electrical system.
Correct.
> Is MisterHouse the "control" software, as in, comparable to what heyu
> is for X10? (i.e: I can run on/off/dim commands via MisterHouse's perl
> scripts?)
Yes.
> I have seen Insteon wireless devices... how does that fits in the puzzle?
> How can these be controlled via MisterHouse? (is there an alternative to
> the PLM device which doesn't connect to the electrical wiring but rather
> it has wireless instead?)
See
http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/Insteon#toc5
and
http://www.insteon.net/about-howitworks.html
In a nutshell, insteon uses wireless access points to bridge your phases,
and those in turn are also used as bridges to wireless only devices.
Marc
--
"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.
Microsoft is to operating systems & security ....
.... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises
looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest
innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and
enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization.
Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get
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