RE: X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Oliver,

My CM12 used to lock up about once every six months. :-(

My Homevision has only ever failed to perform an action once.....cause
POWER
CUT :-)

HV is totally brilliant and well worth investing in.
Others have similar reliability from Comfort but I cant comment on that as
I
dont have Comfort ....yet.

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Pell [mailto:odp@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 February 2001 23:25
> To: ukha
> Subject: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability
>
>
> >From reading about I get the feeling that X10 and
> reliability aren't usually mentioned in the same sentence
> without some sort of negative accompanying them, but still....
>
> I've noticed that a lot of people seem to use HomeVision,
> presumably preferring it to a PC running 24/7. As someone
> considering following the later route I'm wondering why this
> is. Is this a reliability issue? Apparently the CM12 is prone
> to locking up sometimes - does anyone have any experience of
> this? Is it likely to do this in normal use. I suppose I
> might be able to tolerate 1 lock-up every few weeks or so but
> after that it would get pretty annoying.
>
> I know a stand-alone controller like HV has a slight price
> advantage, even over a fairly lowly spec PC (if you're buying
> it new anyway) - but personally I've been very impressed by
> what Homeseer can do with a bit of VBScript inventiveness and
> I would have though this might make up for it.
>
> Sorry, this is another one of my patented incoherent e-mails
> so I'll summarise (or try to ;-)): what prompts people to use
> something like HV/Comfort rather than a PC? Is it purely price?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oliver.
>