All,
after finishing the first implementation of Russound support, I was wondering how to combine this with my KNX switches. So instead of using the Russound panels to turn on a zone or switch the source for a zone, I would like to use my KNX switches todo that.
The idea is to have the KNX support within the controller listen to the KNX bus and when a particular group address is sent, I want the controller to trigger the Russound event to eg. turn on zone1.
We could think that further and combine this we status and rules which are stored on the controller eg. when home is in "sleep" mode and "button light1" is pressed only dimm "light 1" to 20% instead of turning it on to 100%. These are rule connections which are supported eg by linknx or the Gira Homeserver.
--Marcus
Comments (5)
Nov 22, 2009
Marc Fleury says:
Very nice.... this way you can use your KNX panels to control your Russound syst...Very nice.... this way you can use your KNX panels to control your Russound system and it is all integrated. Nice. How do you plan on adding this support?
Nov 22, 2009
Juha Lindfors says:
We went through the steps over Skype, here's the summary. Rule engine is going ...We went through the steps over Skype, here's the summary.
Rule engine is going to bind these pieces together.
In Boss 3.0 we will review these APIs with the rule engine binding in mind.
The use case is:
If state update (X) KNX then send command (Y) Russound
The cycle here is the following:
The steps 1. and 2. are bound together by a rule engine. The last two steps of pushing status updates to consoles occur as normal event processing as its being implemented for Boss 2.0 (by year end)
We should target the rule engine integration for Boss 3.0 (starting next year).
Nov 22, 2009
Marcus Redeker says:
That sounds great. Combining this with internal states, which I mentioned above...That sounds great.
Combining this with internal states, which I mentioned above (eg. home in "sleep" mode), we are starting to catch up with "pro" solutions.
I just looked into the listener support for KNX with Calimero NG and was already able to receive the messages from my KNX bus within Boss.
Nov 23, 2009
Marc Fleury says:
Boss 3.0? Shoot, did I miss a step? Are you trying to quickly rev to 3.1 t...Boss 3.0? Shoot, did I miss a step? Are you trying to quickly rev to 3.1 to follow in the glorious steps of windows? (Neil should cue in about right here)
Nov 23, 2009
Juha Lindfors says:
Yes, I am trying to get up to 11.0 quickly so I can release Boss 2011.Yes, I am trying to get up to 11.0 quickly so I can release Boss 2011.