RE: X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

["Paul Miller" <pmiller@xxxxxxx>]

I have HomeVision, Comfort and Homeseer, the overlap between products means that I develop most projects on Homeseer, quick and easy, as soon as I have it functioning correctly and I am happy its reliable, I port it to HomeVision because HomeVision is the stable platform. So far this development cycle has worked extremely well.

 

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian B [mailto:I.Bird@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 February 2001 10:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

For me it was reliability. A dedicated controller was less likely to have 'Windows' problems. Connectivity was the second point. I love all the ports on HV and its expansion board.

 

Ian

-----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.

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