bobclarke

Wish I had a crystal ball, every technology goes through these stages before a leader and standard is decided apon. As the house is already been done 20 years ago with wired technology and the components all work (switches lights and external things) it seems unreasonabe and expensive to throw them away and buy new wireless units. The brand we are looking at now uses wired technology but allows access to wireless also. Its called Loxone from Austria, seems to be well constructed and gaining market acceptance. It gives us a possibility to replace the I/O modules with simular types and use much of the excisting infrastructure. I hope I'm not wrong on this.

Hi, actualy we also have problems with the modules are no longer available for sale outside of Denmark. We had a friend on vacation there pickup one a while ago but that was just luck. I'm not convinced it is a viable system for the future.

yes that is an Interesting and usefull tool. after seeing the IHC vers 1 'sail into the sunset' I have to seriously think about using the vers 3 for the upgrade. after all It came out in 2012 and is now nearly 10 years old. address decoding is a case of me 'not seeing the forest because of the trees'. I was looking to intensly to find the addressing mechanism and didn't get the network 'star' configuration using the actual port as the base adress point. Bob

Thank You! Just what I was hoping for, the manual will hopefully solve most of our information problems. I understand you to say that the placement order of the 18 modules on the bus will determine the I/O address. The 1st module is I 0 to I 8 and Q 9 to Q 16, the second module I 17 to I 25 and Q 26 to Q 32? Yes it would appear that IHC has outlived its technological lifetime. We're looking to replace it with something new but still makeing use of the wired approach and with the option for some wifi additions. Please respond in Danish if its quicker, reading it is ok for me but an attempt to write would have you die laughing. Bob

Hello, I am an old industrial plc programmer. I am trying to help a friend who has a house with a very old IHC contol ssystem. The system has become very unstable and we need to update it. Many of the modules are no longer available for replacement. It was sold here in Norway branded as 'Thorsman'. This system has a controller with a 9 bin port. There are 18 I/O modules throughout the house. There is almost no documentation here however I do have a printed text file dated 1997. an example line from the program: Funksjonslinje for inngang 1. >: OnU001 FolU002 <: END This line is readable but I don't know where the physical input 001 is. There are no visable adress dip switches on the modules so I have no idea where these adresses are placed. I need some documentation/manual to guide me through decoding the system such that I can make a symbol table and document 'what is here now'. No doubt I'm missing something as I don't see this correlation in the software I downloaded either.