HouseBot

Should you wish there is a hardware box that will attach to your C-Bus network and convert the C-Bus messages into xAP messages on Ethernet. There is also a xAP plugin for HouseBot. Using those two every group on C-Bus becomes a HouseBot device and integrates realtime. Obviously that box has a cost...

Thanks Osler. I didnt mean to sound like I was not willing at all to look at HB itself. Just that it felt like using a sledgehammer to do your finish work with ;) It is indeed very full featured, but I was looking just to do a couple small tasks so I originally hadnt considered it as I wasnt looking...

I'm not too familiar with the HB stuff so it might be easier for me to write a little java app to listen for the keypad presses and use ZPCMD to adjust volume. As for listening for sonos song changes. Is that something you see coming to "SonosWatcher" anytime soon? If not, can you explain ...

Note, cgate just uses a telnet session to command c-bus, and also uses telnet to feed a stream of events. If you install the toolkit from http://www2.clipsal.com/cis/technical/downloads/c-bus_toolkit it will contain c-gate and also in the install directory you will see the cgatemanual.pdf which expl...

HI Osler, Clipsal has a toolkit that you can use in building out your automation very similar to housebot. Right now that is how I talk to the units. There are several little utilities that can be used to talk to c-bus though, including a little java app called C-Gate, and also a DLL for windows. De...

@Osler, you are awesome! Thanks so much for all the hard work. This appears to be just what I am looking for, almost anyway, let me tell you what I am trying to do. I have a clipsal lighting system with LCD keypads. I want to listen for clipsal keybad presses (I can do that fine) then tell the sonos...