[mythtv-users] Home Automation + MythTV/Linux

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 12:17:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Dave Oxley <dave at daveoxley.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi Dave,

Getting OT here but, I am assuming that C-Gate is for Linux right?
Are you in AU?  What was the cost of C-Bus like?  I heard you spend
somewhere in the region of $30K for a normal C-Bus set-up.


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