Hi all,
<u>This reply/message I got from Mafi:</u>
"Hello Frank,
sorry for the very late answer and thanks alot for your insider informations above.
When starting my own software project 5 years ago or so, I had a similiar
conversation via email with M. I was not allowed to use the name "M" or
related product names within my software, unless they had tested it ...
We found an agreement that I will not use any "M" related terms and they
will not disturb my software development. So we are living apart
from each other since this time, and I bought an Intellibox...
I suggest not to support officially any central unit!
Just support it officially this way: "The software is intended to support digital central units
connected to the PC via an Ethernet port." Internally (in the manual, on further report sites of your homepage,
in the forums ...) you can report that a successfull connection under cewrtain circumstances
was made to: E##S, CS, Dyn. Use abbreviations, and all insiders will understand.
Feel free to post my text and your own text of this conversation at the forums"
Probably he was also not that lucky with M [}:)].
I must say I understand their point of view when it commes to support and reputation but I don't ask them to give development support I only want to be sure that I sent the right commands to the CS.
Indeed Lutz you are right (

) the "MFX" protocol and the "PC Interface" protocol are two different things and a lot of people are confused about it.
I'm sorry that Mafi no longer develops his MR software although I didn't use it as I don't have a Mac.
But it is nice and good if you can exchange experiences especially when things are not that well documented you want to support.
But no problem for me I will not longer offically support the CS in LC, I will only mention LC supports devices that are compatible with the PC Interface protocol published by ESU for the ECoS.
It is up to the CS users themselves if they want to use LC or not as you know there are a lot of other software programs that can be used.
Now my weekend will start in peace

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Frank