Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

True - for now. But if you read the recently released white paper on the
Insteon web site, it's clear that they plan to have RF remotes that will
talk to the RF gateways (i.e. SignaLincs, which do both powerline and RF).

I would assume that there will probably be future RF-to-UPB devices, too.
Hopefully, they will use 418MHz so that all of the RF capable programmable
remotes (e.g. Pronto) can talk to them directly.

"Mark Thomas" <mrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>bhitchcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Check out Smarthome's INSTEON products (www.smarthome.com), they are
>> both powerline and RF, so you get the best of both.
>
>This is simply untrue. You seem to be deliberately perpetuating a myth.
>
>The products are *either* powerline *or* RF, with the exception of your
>powerline->RF gateway (the SignaLinc). For example, all the switches
>are powerline-only. All of the lamp and appliance modules are
>powerline-only. This really confused me when I first started looking
>into the products. If you had said the *protocol* is both powerline and
>RF, you would have been correct.
>
>- Mark.