Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

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).

"Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>But I also said that we support it. I think it's a major step forward over
>X-10 and it does seem to work within the natural limitations, though perhaps
>it might be outdone by Zigbee or UPB, I dunno. UPB has limitations as well
>though mostly different ones, and Zigbee probably isn't going to be that
>much different from Z-Wave since they come from the same root stock as I
>understand it. We'll see when we see.
>
>We are agnostic about such things and will support whatever we can if
>there's sufficient customers to be had to make up for the effort.