Originally posted by Hoo
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What I'm finding difficult (aside from the German) is pulling together information and deciding what interacts with what and who is actually producing and selling which bits . As such their interest in allowing protocol or API access has different priorities and different companies only represent certain product ranges. eQ-3 seem to be the main designers.
The on the air protocol seems to be recoverable and reproducible using the TI chipset so that's one possibility - the DLL another assuming that software application works with this system - and reverse engineering the USB protocol another. There are several variants of the USB interface however (only 1 on the UK site) which concerns me .
The lack of response to emails is not encouraging.
K
[edit] One criticism of the over the air protocol raised on that website was that it had no security, encryption , end point validation or sequencing - and that consequently commands could just be learned and resent. Assuming that actually you're not concerned with the ramifications of this within your home then this helps the cause in hacking the protocol or using something like RFXCom to be able to listen/send commands. I wonder wether Bert at RFXCom would be interested in supporting it in RFXCom - with maybe even a specific separate product (I'd buy one).
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