Comfort vs. Others Summary - WAS X10 Heating & Security Automation - Another Newbie Q uestion!

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

OK, Quick summary...

Comfort advantages:

- Out of the box X-10
- Out of the box integration with house phones
- Out of the box integration with remote mobile phone
- Capable of much sophistication
- "The kind of thing we like playing with" :-)
- Easy integration with third-party monitoring / alerting services such as
intamac

Comfort disadvantages:

- Cost
- Potentially too complex
- Use of some features (eg remote disabling) may make it impossible to get
NACOSS accreditation
--- (accreditation = insurance discount)


Questions:

- value of integration with house phones in a world where (our) houses have
many web devices and wireless LANs?
- Ability to make complex config changes potentially causes insecurity (not
enough testing)

Regards,

Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: David Sussman [mailto:davids@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 May 2002 18:14
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] X10 Heating & Security Automation - Another
Newbie
Q uestion!



> BTW, there were some discussions last Friday about the merits and
> drawbacks of 
> integrating Home Automation with security systems, but I'm not
going
> into that one here!

I'd actually be interested in a quick precis of this. I'm struggling to
decide which way to go - Comfort or a standard alarm system, and I
can't
make my mind up. 

Dave


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