Controlling lights via zoned ir

[Frank Mc Alinden]

Hi All
Have been working on a little project here at home on controlling my cbus lights using a standard remote ..To achieve this im using a pc ,software and hardware...
Software.....CGATE...xPL....xPL PLugins...
Hardware.....USB UIRT....FirM Serial interface....FirM......

Im using a cheap 6 button remote and can brighten/dim /turn on / turn off..lights in any room which has cbus lights.....It works quite well and it uses the zone receive identication from my FirM Controller to determine which lights to control........

Frank

[Colin Smith]

I like the idea of IR zones.
Does the C-Bus system support zones or is this why you followed this particular route?
(More flexibility than with just the Clipsal remotes?)

Colin Smith

[Frank Mc Alinden]

Hi Colin

Does the C-Bus system support zones or is this why you followed this particular route?

Not sure if it supports Receive zones but of course using the 2 channel nirt you can have tx zones although would be very expensive to get 8 tx zones this way..........

(More flexibility than with just the Clipsal remotes?)

Its not so much as the remote as the one im using has only 6 buttons i just think to have a multizone ir tx / rx would be too expensive to do in cbus kit and would not be flexible either.....

Also .. i do have one 2 channel nirt connected to my ir system.....Using a Ctouch screen i can control any piece of kit in any of my 8 zones.....

What i have done is connected channel 1 of the nirt ir out to a stick on emitter located adjacent my ha controller (homevision) and the other channel connects to my Multizone unit via an optoisolation board.....
Scenes are created in the Ctouch to send 2 ir signals one to each zone ...
Zone 1 which goes to Homevision represents the zone that the Ctouch wished to tx to and zone 2 is the actual ir command ie vol up /vol down etc..
Works quite well...........

Frank