PLCBUS

Status

ddamron wrote a GSD for PLCBUS with ruby. Hari will try to get a c++ dce client running.

About

PLCBUS Technology provides you the most perfect Home Automation solutions. Control one lamp minimally to the whole house, all the PLCBUS products range is including Lamp control, Appliance control, Remote telephone control, Computer control and Security System control. Based on the features: “High Reliability”, “Two-Way Communications”, “No rewiring necessary”, etc, PLCBUS Technology will be new Home Automation standard in the following 10-15 years.

See the following setup page for details on how to get running. Setting Up PLC-BUS Template

Demo video:

• http://www.x10-hk.com/store/download/plcbus-1.mp4

Features

• Reliability
• 2-way communication
• Powerline, no rewiring
• ~200bps
• 230V/50hz

Interfaces

• http://x10-hk.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=165
• http://www.elekhomica.nl/product_info.php?cPath=135&products_id=757

Command specification

• http://x10-hk.com/store/manual/plcbus/plcbus-1141.pdf

GSD/Ruby Code

• ThreadedRuby
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd776 Reset (used for testing)
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd373 Private Method Listing
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd350 Process INCOMING Data Listing
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd351 Process IDLE Listing
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd355 Process Initialize Listing
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd384 Process Receive Command for Child Listing
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd760 Send Command to Child (before init)
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd776 Status Report (used for testing)
• http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/PLCBUScmd756 Report Child Devices (nothing yet)

Links

• http://www.plcbus.com.cn/
• http://www.futurehomes.com.sg/PLCBUSinfo.htm
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