On November 7, 2010 at 07:58, BluPhenix said...
is there any true sense to enable the RFX9600 in this open thing as it is, for now, a dead device?
I was never really fond of the RFX9600 beacuse of it's limitations (one thing at a time, only has 3 true RS-232 ports) and it's disadvantages . uses UDP to communicate with the TSU's which is a really inreliable protocol and should not be used for critical applications (which home control in my eyes is).
sWORDs on openremote.org said...
The RFX devices are quite nice as microcontroller based translation unit (RFX9600 has 4 RS232 ports, 4 IR, 4 relays), the only downside is that they can only do one thing at a time, but that would be an easy fix by buffering from the controller or openremote client.
The way the RFX communicates over UDP is pretty solid, messages are repeated several times until a confirmation is received. So it might give some overhead, but should be reliable on a decent network.
