Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:30:22 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote
in message  <4316c826.176659093@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:06:46 GMT, "Brian" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message  <q7vRe.978$ZL4.54@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>>Z-Wave is proprietary (and
>> very closely allied with HomeSeer).

>I'm still waiting for your Very Competent information on this baseless
>statement about Allied with Homeseer.

It helps to understand the history of Dave's schadenfreud toward Homeseer
to assess the objectivity of his related opinions posted in
comp.home.automation.

About six years ago while Dave was developing and endlessly hawking in this
newsgroup a commercial home automation software program (Commander-X), Rich
was quietly coding Homeseer. Homeseer trounced Commander-X..

Dave also worked on and promoted for a long time a hardware wireless
product that also failed to thrive and his family apparently shut down
support for that too. Now Homeseer is capitalizing on Z-wave.

Dave had plans to develop a pc-based home automation controller, but ABIK,
mention of that has disappeared from his web site. In the mean time,
Homeseer has introduced a pc-based home automation appliance.

That's three swings (HA software, HA wireless hardware, pc-based HA
controller).

Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.EControl.org