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| What aspects of my home automation system can I reprogram myself? |
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you are doing, and you have the necessary software and hardware, then you may access and
alter the programming for many aspects of your C-Bus
Home Automation System yourself. The aspects of your C-Bus home automation
that you may be able to re-program include the lights/scenes/fans/timers controlled by
each C-Bus
Wall Switch or C-Bus Passive Infra-Red
(PIR) occupancy sensor, plus the watering/lighting/appliance schedules and
scripted home automation logic and checklists in your C-Bus Touch Screen, C-Bus Wiser Home
Controller or C-Bus Pascal
Automation Controller (PAC). Useful Tip:
You may also alter scenes and schedules within your C-Bus Touch Screens
or Wiser Home Controller
directly from the user interface of these devices, without performing any home automation
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| What hardware and software do I need to reprogram my C-Bus Home
Automation System? |
- A Microsoft Windows computer with WiFi, or a spare wired LAN, USB or
9-pin serial RS232 port.
- A LAN cable from your PC to your C-Bus Wiser Home
Controller or C-Bus
Network Interface; or
- A USB cable from your PC to your C-Bus
Colour Spectrum or B&W MkII Touch Screen, Pascal
Automation Controller (PAC), or C-Bus USB PC interface;
or
- An RS232 serial cable from your PC to your C-Bus Serial PC interface,
B&W
MkI Touch Screen, or C-Bus Telephone Interface.
- Free C-Bus Toolkit
software for programming most of your C-Bus devices,
including Wall
Switches, Bus Couplers,
Auxiliary Input Units, General Input Units, Dimmers, Relays, PIRs, and
more. You may find this guide helpful for connecting your PC to your C-Bus home automation system via Free C-Bus
Tookit software.
- Free PICED software
for programming your C-Bus Touch Screens, Wiser Home Controller
and PAC
units.
- Free TICA software
for programming your C-Bus Telephone Interface.
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You should attempt C-Bus
programming only if you have a thorough understanding of how C-Bus works,
or if you have close assistance from an experienced C-Bus
Systems Integrator. Some C-Bus programming changes may render aspects of your
C-Bus system unusable, lead to unreliable C-Bus operation, or may even prevent your entire
C-Bus system from functioning at all - in which case you may need to pay for your C-Bus
Systems Integrator to call out and attempt to restore functionality to your
C-Bus system. You should not attempt to program the following systems yourself at all: Inner Range Security,
Linn Knekt
Multi-room and LG Aria-24 phone systems. |
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