Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

["Brian" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I haven't been around that long to understand but is now clear.

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Brian Dye
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<MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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