RE: cm12 trouble

["Malcolm Surgenor" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen

I'm in a similar situation having had far too many CM12s fail.  (I probably
have a spare cable kicking around which your welcome to if you mail me
offlist).  I'm also a long term Homeseer fan and don't want to change (some
of the proposed v2 functions look good too).  I've just bought the Z-Wave
USB interface which Homeseer can interface to but I'm still waiting on some
appliance and lamp modules to try this out with.  See other X10 posts in
the
past couple of days. I suspect it will be a long time (and a lot of money)
before all of my X10 stuff is replaced but I'm eager to see how Z-Wave
performs.  Equally though Li's post from last night on the retrofit and
wireless Clipsal stuff sounds like one to watch too!  :-)

Malcolm

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 September 2004 08:30
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] cm12 trouble


Hello,

I think my cm12 has blown-up. This my third cm12. The other two went
very hot and smelly; this one has not, but nothing is switching
on/off so I guess it must have failed.

The retaining clip on the cm12 end of the serial cable has fallen off,
so I cannot communicate between pc and cm12 to test it. Can these
cables be bought separately?

I am getting fed-up with replacing these cm12s. I know people on this
list have used three or four, so it is a common failure. How are
Marmitek getting away with this, when so many fail? Why don't they
build them more robustly?

I was thinking of buying a combi-pack of Homeseer and new cm12 but the
proce is over £100. I didn't think it was that much. I was expecting
it to be about £80. Has the price gone up, if so why? Is Homeseer the
best bit of HA software to use; is it worth the price?

I am getting fed-up with x10; what are my other options? C-bus?

Thanks.