Re: [LHA-misc] linux driver for the EIB

[Raffael S. <raf...@st...>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Sascha Ziemann wrote:
> As far as I know the EIB uses always an additional bus.  Are there any
> devices available, which are working like X10 over the normal power
> lines?

Busch-Jaeger has such an implementation. They call it EIB Powerline
(or EIB-PL).

The EIB protocol itself does not specify a physical transmission
medium. There are also Ethernet (EIB.net) and radio frequency 
(EIB.RF) versions available. The canonical way, however, is the
twisted pair implementation (EIB.TP), which is also used by our
driver. (The "tp" in "tpuart" stands for twisted pair.)

I don't know if there are any drivers for Powerline systems
available for Linux.

Ciao,
	Raffael

p.s.: The powerline version is said to be very instable, i. e.
you can't switch your light on if you have your vacuum cleaner
running.

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