16 discussions on Cabling-Design.com Forums about the Smarthome CM11A: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.
Every once in a while you come across a product so useful that it changesthe fundamentals of how you live and work. Recently, I had the opportunityto help beta test fellow newsgrouper Jeff Volp?s XTB (X10 Transmit Buffer).This is one of...
Things started going haywire at my Houston home last week with lights coming on randomly and no control to some areas even with an XTB at the main controller and a Smartlinc plug-in Repeater. I quckly found the culprit: A light weight...
Hello All,The CM11A hang-ups have been mentioned a lot here but I could not find a truly exhaustive fix anywhere. So, my question:Are newer CM11A still hang-up prone? Mine is from around 2000. Is the CM15A better in quality?Besides quitting...
I had installed X10. It was very flaky in my house. I bought a plugin phase coupler which didn't help much. I have lights going offrandomly, some lights unable to controlled etc.Is Insteon going to be much better? I was hoping that the RF...
I have an Insteon starter kit (tabletop controller, 2 RF links, 2 lampmodules) on loan from a Home Automation dealer. I set it up a few days agoand will test it over the next couple of weeks, posting a review here andadding to it as the...
Hello All,Several people have requested a passive coupler be included with the XTB.When I first started the XTB project, I had considered having two outputcoupling networks so the XTB would directly drive each phase. I abandonedthat...