Thank you for all suggestions

I have in mind to buy a little hardware to try the system out.

• Kinco cpu with in/outputs
• some different sensors
• wall-switches (I guess best to wire to the dig.inp. of plc would be retractable ones)
• An hmi
  
• An Android A/Epad

Do you think a Macbook running with LinuxMCE running in Boot camp will be sufficient as a Core?

regards,
Christian

In the future (1,5-2 years) I will build a house and looking to use LinuxMCE as the core to my home automation system, which will also consist of An ethernet network, a plc-system (Kinco, http://www.kinco.cn/en/index.asp) and all the sensors (temp, prescence, inductive, smoke, humidity, twilight, etc.) and appliances (garage door motor, blind motor, shutters, led dimmers, etc.) and of course a sound system with multi-zone amplifier and built in ceiling/wall speakers..

I am new to all this and may come with some dumb questions, but I'm trying to learn

I wondering about the Media Directors - Do I need them if I have LCD-tv's with ethernet-port and DLNA?

It would be nice to skip them out in some way (having the tv as the only unit).. But if they're necessary anyway I guess there's some nice way to mount them on the back of the tv, right?

A few more questions - Does anyone know if this HMI, http://www.kinco.cn/en/prl.asp?aspid=1&c2id=1&c3id=7&c4id=181 , have support to run touch orbiter? (Maybe if it can have WindowsCE installed?) I have a price of around 150 USD for them, so it would be great

Will 4,2" be too small to use touch orbiter?

Cheers!
Christian

OK

I really think that a standard like the KNX is a good thing and if money wasn't a big issue when being young and wanting to build a house close to a big city in Sweden I would definitely go for that system.

But such as it is now I find a plc system closer to my budget - and - in fact I really like that kind of programming it involves.

C++ you say. Many years ago I started learning a little C++, but that was only a scratch on the surface.. However I'm willing to dig into it and learn - I have many times thought of doing so, since it's a handy language to know.

Are there any instructions on the wiki of how to add an own device through c++ coding?
Are there any templates I can make use of?

Regards,
Raginglynx

Hi!

I am very interested in the progress for communication between PLC-systems and MCE too.

Were there a driver written?
I think that opc seems like the best protocol for this

regards,
Raginglynx

Oh, now I see what you mean

It's an industry plc-system I'm thinking on using. It would cost me around 7 Euro/channel. Cable should be able to come down to 20 Cent/m.

I will save a lot of money using that instead of Knx. In this I neither need the use of specific room controllers, since I will connect normal self-retracting light-switches to DI. And it has it's own CPU-unit, so it works independent of the pc in case of power-down.

So how can I make this communicate with the LinuxMCE best way possible?

Is it by adding it as a GSD-device? Or is there a better way maybe?

Thank you!

Isnt plc-systems like Automation direct also running without a pc?
I thought so. But I'm new to all this, so feel free to correct me

Anyway, thanks for the input

Hi all!

I read in an old thread about this and wonder if there's been a plugin written for this.

Since I am in housebuilding-thoughts and like the idea of controlling my home in every way possible, and also to keep the costs for it down, I tend to draw to the PLC direction. Logic-diagrams is nothing new to me, but I have never programmed a plc myself, however, I intend to learn how to

As I've heard there are plc-systems with which it is possible to control almost everything in a household - and to a much lower price than other systems such as eib / knx, lcn etc.

One pointed me to linuxMCE as the perfect platform to control your house with - and that's why I'm here!

Does anyone know if there is a price-worth plc-system with dimmer-outputs, web-integration among other things that it's possible to control through linuxMCE?