>I think your time will be well spent by reading more details on each of
>the methods you are considering. The CAN system was designed by Bosch.
>I'm sure a bit of time researching this with Google will provide you with
>a great deal of information.

Having watched this thread, and being about to build a shed down the bottom
of the garden for my hobby area, I have been thinking about how to run
burglar alarms, security lights etc, from the house, and CAN looks like it
would fit the bill quite nicely. Hence I asked a colleague who used to work
for Lucas here in the UK, and since being here has done a little with CANbus
on a spacecraft about it. He had a hardcopy of the Bosch CAN spec 2.0 which
I have copied (no I will not be able to scan and send), but he has annotated
it with "replaced by ISO 11898" which probably means it will cost
significant money to get a copy of the ISO spec.

>There is a site "out there somewhere" that is a working community effort
>to create a home automation system based on CAN controllers. I don't have
>a link.

If anyone does have it, I'm definitely interested.

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