HS and B&o

[ivory egg]

We have a customer who intends to use KNX and B&o in a residential project and use Gira HS as the client interface to bring together all elements of the building - to be delivered on touchpanel and tablets.

I wonder if any integrators have successfully integrated B&o functions of AV control into the QC or apps and might be willing to chare their experience and possibly to show the resulting interface?

[MarkusS]

There are two Options to connect b&o. They offer a Master link Gateway which Interfaces to KNX. But this MLGW is quite expensive und the last time we had to use it it was buggy as hell.

The other Option is IRTrans which integrates nicely into Gira HS.

We used the graphical visu and only the requirement to Control some functionality so this was easy to integrate.

Later, b&o extended the MLGW and created a API which makes it possible to interface MLGW via TCP in a way similar to RS232. This is something I would have at least a look at.

Integration into QC is a different Story, at the moment there are no controls for this. While it should be doable as long as you only implement basic functionality, this might become a nightmare when you try to Control different Media sources and targets with playlist, cover flow and so on.

[ivory egg]

Thanks

Thanks Marcus
that is very helpful - though perhaps not the answer I had hoped for!
I was hoping that the AV functionality of the BeoLink app could be incorporated in the HS interface