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vacri on March 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and...

> Using a protocol invented before the internet to control devices on a semi-public network is insane.

Using Modbus may be insane, but Internet Protocol (IP) predates it by 5 years.

thoughtsimple on March 11, 2016 [–]

Modbus is an application layer protocol. Different things. It's more akin to HTTP than IP.

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