Re: Switching audio via an Ocelot and SECU's

["Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx>]

Comparing X-10 and Z-Wave is like comparing a PC with a Mac.  They both do
the same thing, but there's not much compatibility.  Even today, stay within
X10 (or Leviton DHC), and everything works fine.  It's perhaps even more
compatible than the PC because those old brown BSR X10 modules still work
today.  They come into service every year at Christmas candle time.  There
aren't many parts left over from my XT that are useful today.  Anybody want
an ATI Wonder card?

Jeff

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > I understand your point a lot better now.
> >
> > But, PCs aren't quite that interchangeable.
>
> I challenge you to name something similar that's *more* interchangeable!
> They are the most universally interchangeable commodity that I know of.
> Maker A's board usually runs in Maker B's PC without problems.  Try that
> with home automation equipment from  Z-wave, ZigBee, Centralite, HAI,
X-10,
> Insteon, and on and on.  For a while it was stabilized quite nicely with
> lots of different manufacturers adhering to the X-10 protocol, but Babel
has
> come to HA.
>
> > I've got a box full of ISA
> > boards that won't plug into any current motherboard.
>
> Well, I'd have a hard time plugging radio tubes into these teensy IC
> sockets!  Should there never be any progress?  You could take those cards
> and plug them into any motherboard that still has an ISA slot and they
would
> work.  You could sit all day in front of a Z-Wave switch with an X-10
> controller and not get anywhere.  That's what I am talking about when I
say
> interchangeable.  Maker A's board works with maker B's computer.

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