RE: X10 how popular is it in the UK, Update No1

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

> RF is license exempt it would still comunicate with your X10
modules
> via a X10 transceiver. Its just that the sensor can be anything
you
> like as long as it communicates with the transceiver, which I can
do
> using RF X10 protocol. It would work the same way a keyfob
> communicates with X10 at the moment.

I'm only talking from my own perspective here but I avoid RF like the
plague wherever I can! I find it very unstable and unreliable, just my
experience of course. ;)

I can see the need for it in a lot of places but whether you would get
the volume or not I just don't know, have you tried mailing Laser and
Let's Automate to see what sort of demand they may have for such
things?
Add to that the fact that temperature, for example, can be done with a
length of CAT5 and a DS1820 for under a fiver and you could have an
uphill struggle there.

All I keep getting from the X10 group is how unreliable the X10 PIR is
and that seems to translate to almost all the RF devices. :(

Sorry to be a bit down about this but modules that talk back and are
easy to install in UK situations seems to be what we all *really* want
>from
K.

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