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C-BUS PowerTools Lighting Driver (Sneak Preview)


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Just a sneak preview of the new CBUS PowerTools Driver I'm developing (keep in mind, it's still in development, and certain parts of the architecture may change). It's designed for VERY fast commissioning of Clipsal CBUS Lighting Systems

Features: 

  • VERY Fast commissioning of CBUS systems (5mins vs 2 hours for a standard CBUS System, with automatic group type detection).
  • Managed drivers. YOU DON'T HAVE TO ENTER Group addresses, application addresses or even names of circuits.  Less copy and paste = less mistakes
  • Import from CBUS Toolkit (CGL / Tags XML) 
  • Built in Webserver to facilitate setup (this may change, and may be shifted to an online service, included with the driver, to be accessible online to installers, take load off the controllers, and allow better management ).    
  • I'm hoping to also support a few features missing from the standard drivers

I'm hoping to complete the driver within the next month or so (however, it's dependent on access to hardware. I'm located in VIC Australia if anyone has any CBUS hardware they are hoping to sell cheap (even if it has faulty channels, that's ok for testing purposes) or can get me in touch with Clipsal for hardware.

The plumbing is mostly done, and it's now simply a case of completing the comms between the gateway and Control4.  

If anyone has any feedback, it's also welcome. 

 

  

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Just a few updates (to the people who have messaged me).

 

I'm currently in the process of rejigging a lot of this to bounce off a server, to take some load off the C4 Controller. As a plus, because of the redesign, in most cases (even satellite with 500ms lag), the web interface will probably be faster than the old webserver. Port forwarding won't be needed either (so, it should also work on double NAT'ed connections). 

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