Welcome to the xPL Project
Welcome to the xPL Project Website.
This is the Project Wiki, which is the main repository for documentation, downloads and general information about the project. xPL is an open protocol intended to permit the control and monitoring of home automation devices.
Are you New to xPL?
- Read some of our step by step How To tutorials, in particular "Get Started" (http://wiki.xplproject.org.uk/index.php/How_To#Get_Started)
- We can answer your Frequently Asked Questions
- Please Come and Join our Mailing List Enabled Community Forums (http://www.xpl-home.org/forums)
Do you Want to Build Stuff that uses xPL?
- Read the project documentation
- Look at the Downloadable Packages already available
- Get the Development Tools we have built
- Get a Vendor ID
- Keep up to date with xPL News
- Visit the webistes of other xPL Developers xPL Links
This wiki is a community project and all xPL users are invited to learn from it and to update it as they see fit. With your help, this will become an excellent resource.
If you want to practice playing with this wiki, then please do so using the Wiki Sandbox.
9th April 2007
xPL Gateway for RFXCOM released
After more than a year of development and refinement, the xPL to RFXCOM gateway is complete :-)
xPL now has full support for the RFXCOM range of RF receivers and transmitters.
Visit the xPL Monkey (http://www.xplmonkey.com/rf.html) site for details.
13th January 2007
Z-Wave now supported by xPL
xPL now includes support for Z-Wave RF devices. Based on the Z-Wave SDK from ControlThink, the xPLZWave service for Windows 2000, XP, MCE and Vista provides full control and status reporting of activity in a Z-Wave network.
xPLZWave also includes a configuration application providing full management of a Z-Wave network, with support for inclusion and exclusion of devices and the editing of groups and device parameters.
Visit the xPL Monkey (http://www.xplmonkey.com/zwave.html) site for details.
25th September 2006
xPL and Windows Media Center
xPLMCE is an add-in for Windows XP Media Center Edition that brings the power of xPL to your Media Center PC.
xPLMCE sends and receives xPL messages, providing full control of media playback via xPL, as well as enabling home automation devices such as lights to respond to Media Center events.
Visit the xPL Monkey (http://www.xplmonkey.com/mce.html) site for details.
3rd March 2006
xPLk8000 V0.2 available
xPLk8000 is an xPL interface to the Velleman k8000 IO Board. It allows you to set digital outputs according to xPL messages received and it sends xPL messages to any digital input changes. Version 0.2 brings in the new configuration options, meaning that you can configure this gateway via xPL config messages. Also, this is now a sourceforge project.
You can download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xplk8000
2nd January 2006
xPLHal Server and xPLHal Manager Updated
The latest versions of xPLHal Server and xPLHal Manager for Windows, (version 1.52 for each), are now available for download:
http://www.xplhal.org/downloads/xplhalmgr.zip
http://www.xplhal.org/downloads/xplhal.zip
For new installations of the Manager, just run the xPLHalMgrSetup.msi file. To upgrade an existing installation, just copy the files from the Manager folder inside the ZIP file over the top of your existing xPLHal Manager installation.
The Server is an upgrade package only, and requires an earlier version of xPLHal Server installed.
Release notes for these new versions can be found in this (http://www.xpl-home.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32) and this (http://www.xpl-home.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34) forum threads
28th December 2005
xPLDiag Tool Released
The first release of the xPL Diagnostics Tool for Windows - xPLDiag - is now available from http://www.xplmonkey.com/xpldiag.html
The tool tests various aspects of an xPL installation on a Windows PC, producing a report highlighting errors and potential problems with suggestions for how to resolve them.
27th December 2005
DCM V1.1c Available
DCM is a Java based Device Configuration Manager for xPL. DCM will identify devices on your network, show you their status and allow you to configure them (if they allow it). DCM v1.1c has several improvements over the original version. A detailed changelog can be found here (http://www.xpl-home.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29) in the xPL Forums.
DCM runs under Java and so can run under Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, etc. You can download DCM at http://www.xPL4Java.org/xPL4Java
9th December 2005
xPLk8000 available
xPLk8000 is an xPL interface to the Velleman k8000 IO Board. It allows you to set digital outputs according to xPL messages received and it sends xPL messages to any digital input changes. Only digital IO is support at the moment, but analogs coming soon.
You can download it at http://www.geekhouse.co.za
6th December 2005
xPL4Linux V1.3 available
xPL4Linux is a complete implementation xPL in C that an be compiled under linux or nearly any other unix-like operating system. V1.3 completes the implementation by completing and integrating xPL device configuration support in the framework itself. xPL4Linux is designed to let you have the access level to xPL you need (from fully abstracted right down to the wire) and be easy to integrate into existing programs as well as new. Like other xPL4Linux projects, full source code (with examples) is available.
You can download it at http://www.xPL4Java.org/xPL4Linux
5th December 2005
xPL2UPB V1.0 available
xPL2UPB is an xPL gateway for controlling and tracking devices on the UPB (Universal Powerline Bus) network. xPL2UPB is a xPL4Java module that runs on any platform with Java 1.5 or later and the xPL4Java server running. As with ther other xPL4Java related products, full source code is available.
You can read more about it and download it at http://www.xpl4java.org/xPL4Java/xPL2UPB.html
19th November 2005
XPE - xPL Plugin Editor V1.0 Available
XPE, or xPL Plugin Editor, is a tool to create and maintain xPL plugin files. Plugin files describe the devices a vendor produces as well as how to use those devices for applications like xPLHAL. They allow such things to tailor themselves to the capabilities of each device.
XPE makes editing plugins reasonable easy and removes a lot of potential for errors. XPE can also help new plugin files with it's "Auto Device Discovery" tool.
Read more about it at http://www.xpl4java.org/xPL4Java/
xPLio V1.0 available
xPLio is an xPL interface to allow you to send data (simple text and/or binary) to serial and parallel ports on your computer via xPL messages. It's useful as a solution when there is no xPL driver available for your particular hardware (though ideally, the hardware provider will eventually create an xPL driver specific to it).
xPLio is written in Java with the xPL4Java framework and will work on any platform that supports Java 1.5 or later and has a Javacomm implementation. Details and downloads available at http://www.xPL4Java.org
