Clipsal C-Bus can now be controlled via xPL

[John B]

Hi all,

The xPL team are pleased to announce the availability of the xPL C-Gate
interface, which allows complete integration
between Clipsal's C-Bus and an xPL network.

C-Gate is a software application provided by Clipsal for interfacing
external
applications with C-Bus. The xPL C-Gate interface acts as a bridge between
xPL
and C-Gate, providing seamless integration with all C-Bus input and output
devices.

For those who already own a C-Bus PC interface, xPL C-Gate provides a low
cost
method of integrating C-Bus with any of the many xPL-enabled devices and
software packages. At the time of writing, C-Gate is available from the
Clipsal
Integrated Systems web site free of charge for use on a single C-Bus
network.

Full two-way communication between xPL and C-Bus is achieved through use of
the
control.cbus and sensor.cbus schemas, which are themselves derived from the
standard control.basic and sensor.basic schemas.
The control.cbus message can be issued by any device on the xPL network to
control a C-Bus load. Events on the C-Bus network are reported as
sensor.cbus
messages, and can be acted on by any intelligent xPL receiver, such as
xPLHal.

You can download the xPL C-Gate application from the following location:
<a href="http://www.xpl.myby.co.uk/downloads/xplcgate/xplcgate.zip";>http://www.xpl.myby.co.uk/downloads/xplcgate/xplcgate.zip</a>

For full details of the control.cbus and sensor.cbus schemas, see the
manual.txt
file included with the download.

Special thanks to Frank for being a beta tester for us!

Regards,

John