Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

["Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't have to reverse engineer it or anything. I did get the docs
eventually, but just the raw protocol docs. There isn't anything that really
explains the big picture, which is often missing in such documentation.
There's nothing that describes best practices, error recovery strategy,
etc... So you have to really figure these things out by trial and error.

UPB does certainly seem to be a lot smarter about encouraging support.
Perhaps they see themselves as a DIY solution while Zen-Sys wants to think
that they are not. But I think that they primarily are, since the high has
many other solutions.

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
www.charmedquark.com

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The problem with reverse engineering the communications protocol will come
> when you get blindsided by any changes they make to the protocol.
>
> I think you will find ZigBee based devices will come with a myriad of
> communications protocols so your experience at reverse engineering Z-Wave
> may or may not be a plus.
>
> PCS has published the UPB protocol. Insteon makes their SDK available at a
> very reasonable cost (although with ridiculous license terms).
>