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Jeffke, the VMB8PB (assume you meant PB and not PD) is a small (25mm Square) push button circuit board that can be mounted anywhere remote from the rest of the equipment, i am putting it beside the bed, with 8 function buttons i can use it to switch all the lights off at night from my bed, or to put...

Hi Uriel I am currently running the Velbus components below, but have more on the way. VMB8PB Velbus 8 Channel Push Button Module VMB1RY Velbus Relay Module VMB1USB Velbus USB Interface VMB3PS Velbus Power Supply VMB6IN Velbus 6 Channel Input Module The software is running on a 5 year old PII Dell d...

Interested to see how you did it, it may be better than my way ? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> Thanks Andrew. I think I managed to do what I want by identifying the VID/PID for each device connected to the USB por...

Jeffie. I have a vb. Net routing that enumerates the ccom ports to find the USB interface. I can give you some help if you need it the structure of my program is flexible so you can add any sensor and give it an adddress rather than picking from a list of known sensors. The program then translates a...

Pieter. I think a seperate forum for velbus may be worth while to give the product some definition. However you guys have a lot more experience than me of all the othr types of home automation products out there. my experience is limited to x10 and velbus. X10 for me was a disaster. But maybe I was ...

The program is based on the dot.net code structure, but it is written from scratch. the only bit supplied by Velbus was the DLL.

I am certainly willing to share the project, but need to spend a bit more time on it before i would be happy to put my name to it and make it public.

Andrew

Yes, only Din Rail mounts are available. I have a separate control box between my consumer unit, (main fused panel) and the system, the Velbus rack is installed here. i then switch either complete groups, (like power sockets) or individual units like outside lights, it all depends how you wire it up...

Sorry Pieter, i miss understood your question about polling the sensors. The devices do send a state change to the bus and this is picked up by the serial port. The program i have written acts upon that information. The program also records the current state of the device in case of a power failure,...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> @Andrew: do you need to poll the bus with your own software? <hr noshade size="1"><font size="1">...

Jeffke, i could not get the X10 stuff to work 100% of the time and that annoyed me. I think there are too many free wireless airwaves zooming around right now that cause interference. Plus, with motion sensors on alarms now, thief's have worked out how the jam the wireless one ! ! Good luck with you...

Hi guys I used to dabble with X10 but found it was too clumsy for what i wanted, and a lot of other systems cost too much, i came across the Velbus system a few months ago and started to play with it.... looks good... any one else playing with it, really looking for someone to talk with on this subj...