Hi,
I'll soon be moving into a new property and I'm planning to wire up Idratek's products for various functions in the house.
I'd ideally like to control everything from a Linux box though, is information available on the IdraNet protocol or is all the complex stuff handled by the PCD-001/PCA-001 module and will I be able to run Cortex on a Windows PC initially to obtain the data bytes used for events and then simply send/listen to these on the serial port from Linux - or may they change over time?
I'm not talking about doing anything complex as far as the protocol is concerned, just listening to and sending events.
The other option I guess is to connect a Idratek input/output module to a PC relay board and link the modules with Windows/Cortex and Reflex initially but that seems a bit stupid!
Do other companies produce similar products (control over a low power cat5 wired network rather than a C-Bus type setup) - I can't find any others other than Wireless (prefer not) or X10 (not reliable enough after past experience).
Many thanks.
I'll soon be moving into a new property and I'm planning to wire up Idratek's products for various functions in the house.
I'd ideally like to control everything from a Linux box though, is information available on the IdraNet protocol or is all the complex stuff handled by the PCD-001/PCA-001 module and will I be able to run Cortex on a Windows PC initially to obtain the data bytes used for events and then simply send/listen to these on the serial port from Linux - or may they change over time?
I'm not talking about doing anything complex as far as the protocol is concerned, just listening to and sending events.
The other option I guess is to connect a Idratek input/output module to a PC relay board and link the modules with Windows/Cortex and Reflex initially but that seems a bit stupid!
Do other companies produce similar products (control over a low power cat5 wired network rather than a C-Bus type setup) - I can't find any others other than Wireless (prefer not) or X10 (not reliable enough after past experience).
Many thanks.
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