Cebus Demystified

Find all the tools you need to work with the CEBus (Consumer Electronics Bus) standard in this timely guide. It walks you through every step of creating residential networks and products that can "talk" to each other (and allow their owners to talk to them), using the latest internationally accepted standard.

Ideal for anyone interested or involved in home networking technology or product development, Gra

• yson Evans' CEBus Demystified shows you how to:
• Ride the convergence curve with trend-setting residential networks, product designs, and interoperability
• Build "smartness" into homes and products with networks and features that meet tomorrow's needs
• Understand the basics of HomePnP and how it relates to CEBus
• Develop CEBus-compliant, interoperable products
• Use and interpret CAL (Common Application Language), with step-by-step guidance, examples, and reference material not found in the specification

Contents

• Ch. 1 Introduction 1
• Ch. 2 CEBus Document Overview 11
• Ch. 3 The CEBus Benefit 23
• Ch. 4 CEBus Basics 35
• Ch. 5 The Media and Physical Layers 53
• Ch. 6 Protocol 91
• Ch. 7 CAL 163
• Ch. 8 Interoperability and HomePnP 220
• Ch. 9 Product Development 227
• App. A: Object Definitions 251
• App. B: Sample Contexts 275
• App. C Response Error Codes 285
• App. D CEBus Resources 287
• Index 289