Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

If you give it a little thought you'll realize that having all devices do
both is unworkable, leading to endlessly repeated cacophony.

I do agree that SmartHome tends to imply there's more there than meets the
eye with their "best of both" babble but think their system may prove to be
more reliable than UPB.

"Mark Thomas" <mrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dave Houston wrote:
>> 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).
>
>Even so, with the exception of the SignaLincs, any particular product
>will still be either RF or powerline, but not both.
>
>- Mark.