Home centre 2 and c-bus lighting

[Smartwire 0]

Hi im fairly new to home automation and have a question regarding a recent customer premises site survey. the customer wants to automate his lighting which is all wired using c-bus but he doesn't want to use c-bus he wants to use the home centre 2 . can the home centre 2 control c-bus lighting or can it be wired to work?

 

thanks in advance

Edited March 23, 2017 by Smartwire

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

8 hours ago, Smartwire said:

Hi im fairly new to home automation and have a question regarding a recent customer premises site survey. the customer wants to automate his lighting which is all wired using c-bus but he doesn't want to use c-bus he wants to use the home centre 2 . can the home centre 2 control c-bus lighting or can it be wired to work?

 

thanks in advance

 

I get asked this often. C bus is/ was a great product but bad instalation/progaming/price and lack of foward functionality has caused many customers to be unhappy.

Of course it uses cable home runs and ip switches and does a good job of lighting control so a bridge from HC2 to control the exsisting would be best

I know control 4 and cbus can work together with some sort of bridge?

Not really awnsering your post here..... but keen to hear if this is possible  in Australia and New Zealand there is alot of older  Cbus around that could benefit from this.

Edited March 23, 2017 by Jamie mccrostie

[JohnnyC 7]

Typically we use the Fibaro dimmers and relays at the rack (replacing the cbus dimmers etc) and use the 12v supply to the switches to power the RGBW modules at the switch. This allows for 4 x switch inputs per RGBW which are then associated to the relevant dimmers/relays at the board. The association commands allow for manual inputs to dim or turn devices a the board on and off, while building the mesh around the property. The RGBW modules are not shown in the user interface, only the dimmers and relays controlling the load. 

 

Associations are only send from a manual input - so a script also needs to be in place to synchronise the Input devices to the load to ensure the correct command is executed at every press of the switch

 

We have successfully done this with multiple variations on bus-based control systems (Kristil, C-Bus, Vantage etc)

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

42 minutes ago, JohnnyC said:

Typically we use the Fibaro dimmers and relays at the rack (replacing the cbus dimmers etc) and use the 12v supply to the switches to power the RGBW modules at the switch. This allows for 4 x switch inputs per RGBW which are then associated to the relevant dimmers/relays at the board. The association commands allow for manual inputs to dim or turn devices a the board on and off, while building the mesh around the property. The RGBW modules are not shown in the user interface, only the dimmers and relays controlling the load. 

 

Associations are only send from a manual input - so a script also needs to be in place to synchronise the Input devices to the load to ensure the correct command is executed at every press of the switch

 

We have successfully done this with multiple variations on bus-based control systems (Kristil, C-Bus, Vantage etc)

Easy peasy

I could have a job for that one

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

Hey @JohnnyC im starting to understand your phone comment from the other week re RBGW module and UBS module being Fibaros most powerful products.

[sarf77 11]

@JohnnyC

1 minute ago, Smarterelec said:

@JohnnyC

sorry @JohnnyC wouldn't let me edit/delete previous.

 

Is there a way we can use the HC2 just as a controller as C4 would be used with CBUS or would the whole thing have to be done with VDs and HTTP via a CBUS gateway or something?

[ashleys 0]

On 3/23/2017 at 8:01 PM, Jamie mccrostie said:

 

I get asked this often. C bus is/ was a great product but bad instalation/progaming/price and lack of foward functionality has caused many customers to be unhappy.

Of course it uses cable home runs and ip switches and does a good job of lighting control so a bridge from HC2 to control the exsisting would be best

I know control 4 and cbus can work together with some sort of bridge?

Not really awnsering your post here..... but keen to hear if this is possible  in Australia and New Zealand there is alot of older  Cbus around that could benefit from this.

Thanks this post helped me I'm quoting 

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