Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

[Robert L Bass <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:46:40 GMT, MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> 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).

That explains a lot of his animosity toward Homeseer and Zwave.
The other thing that really gets him roiled is that you and I
have both disagreed with him, then ribbed him a bit for his rude
replies.

Anyone who dares to disagree with him gets the "you're
illiterate and incompetent but I'm an expert" lecture.  He did
the same thing to Elk's engineers when he couldn't understand
their documentation.
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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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