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Posted by jt on August 28, 2005, 8:10 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi, Looking at possilbly purchasing Zwave products and would to get your personal pro and cons on these devices. Thanks, jt | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Mark Thomas on August 29, 2005, 6:58 am
Please log in for more thread options Personally, I'm not considering any technology I can't use throughout the house. Zwave just doesn't have a broad enough product line yet. For example, I haven't seen a 1000W dimmer or convenient integration points like a dry-contact transmitter, zwave relays, etc. I've started down the UPB path and so far I'm very satisfied. - Mark. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by bhitchcock@smarthome.com on August 29, 2005, 8:26 am
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jt wrote: Check out Smarthome's INSTEON products (www.smarthome.com), they are both powerline and RF, so you get the best of both. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Mark Thomas on August 29, 2005, 12:14 pm
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bhitchcock@smarthome.com wrote: > Check out Smarthome's INSTEON products (www.smarthome.com), they are
> both powerline and RF, so you get the best of both. This is simply untrue. You seem to be deliberately perpetuating a myth. The products are *either* powerline *or* RF, with the exception of your powerline->RF gateway (the SignaLinc). For example, all the switches
are powerline-only. All of the lamp and appliance modules are
powerline-only. This really confused me when I first started looking into the products. If you had said the *protocol* is both powerline and RF, you would have been correct. - Mark. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Dave Houston on August 29, 2005, 7:27 pm
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True - for now. But if you read the recently released white paper on the Insteon web site, it's clear that they plan to have RF remotes that will talk to the RF gateways (i.e. SignaLincs, which do both powerline and RF). I would assume that there will probably be future RF-to-UPB devices, too. Hopefully, they will use 418MHz so that all of the RF capable programmable remotes (e.g. Pronto) can talk to them directly. >
>bhitchcock@smarthome.com wrote: >> Check out Smarthome's INSTEON products (www.smarthome.com), they are
>> both powerline and RF, so you get the best of both. >
>This is simply untrue. You seem to be deliberately perpetuating a myth. > >The products are *either* powerline *or* RF, with the exception of your >powerline->RF gateway (the SignaLinc). For example, all the switches >are powerline-only. All of the lamp and appliance modules are >powerline-only. This really confused me when I first started looking >into the products. If you had said the *protocol* is both powerline and >RF, you would have been correct. > >- Mark. | |||||||||||||||||||
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> Looking at possilbly purchasing Zwave products and would to get your
> personal pro and cons on these devices.
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> Thanks,
> jt