Re: ControlThink announces Z-wave SDK

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc F Hult wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:26:41 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote
> in message  <43743ccd.45865429@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>>I've always said that hard-wired is the most reliable
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> Agreed that it is reliable.
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>>but also the most expensive
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> Most expensive? Have you actually compared a Centralite hard-wired system
> installed at the time of home construction compared to Lutron RF and other
> high end ? Do you have any experience whatsoever in this matter?
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>>and least flexible.
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> What do you mean by 'flexible'? Buy into an RF system and your entire
> investment depends on the proprietary products from a single company.
> Copper wire, on the other hand, gives timeless, multi-vendor, multiple
> technology 'flexibility'.
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>>PLC has flexibility, potential low-cost, and even X-10 is reliable _if_ you
>>understand it and are willing to invest time and effort in maintaining it.
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> ROTFL.
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> One day after Dave posts (yet again!) an assertion of X-10 reliability " if
> [ ahem, like Dave] you understand it",Dave finds that all X-10 on one phase
> of his power is "blocked" and he has no idea why.
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> Message-ID: <4374b9f2.38688863@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: mystery signal
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:02:54 GMT
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> "... but yesterday was the first time I saw the nearly continuous signal. It
> blocks X-10......
> ...... Any ideas? "
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> (I have posted in this other thread an idea that fits the facts he has
> provided.)
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> So how has Dave's superior wisdom made his X-10 system 'reliable' if it now
> doesn't work at all?
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> Reality check needed here (still, and as always). In my opinion, it is, and
> has been, and will continue to be unwise and unhelpful to claim that X-10 is
> "reliable".


Where the heck is Kearney???  More "bashing" in this response, Mr.
Kearney...  Mr. Kearney???  Ohhh...  I forgot...

BASS!

Now we'll get the appropriate response!!  :-)