Re: Switching audio via an Ocelot and SECU's

["John W" <Don't_Spam_Me@xxxxxxx>]

In spite of its quirks, the ADI forum is very useful.  It provides an
excellent archive of information that goes back several years.  Searching
across topics would be nice and has been discussed in the forum but iirc, is
a limitation of the software package ADI selected?  Once you get used to it,
you'll learn to love it - warts and all!

wrt development, ADI is a small company and HA is only part of their product
set.  A recent post by ADI asking what products are of interest leads me to
believe we will see some new development soon?

IMO, even though the last update of CMAX is now a couple years old, there
are still no other products available that come close to these in their
flexibility and affordability...

John W

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "John W" <Don't_Spam_Me@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>> wrt to the ADI forum - yes, the shortcomings you have identified are
> real...
>
> That's close to being obscene.  There's so much stuff that's CHA related
> at
> that website it's a shame to see information so Balkanized.  There was a
> great review of UPP reliability in this thread:
>
> http://www.appdigsupport.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=13;t=000
> 196
>
> but it will never get the exposure it deserves buried away on the ADI
> forum.
> Nor will ADI generate many sales from their seemingly ever-dwindling
> presence here in CHA.  I bought three of their units recently directly
> because of CHA.  Neglecting this newsgroup just doesn't seem a wise
> product
> strategy.  I'm sure there's some sordid tale involved, but it just seems a
> shame.
>
> Maybe all they do these days is go to trade shows.  That's the feeling I
> get
> from the website.  Maybe it's their blisteringly hot Front Page News that
> says:
>
> SHOWCASE Updated 2/24/05. ADI is exhibiting at the 2005 EHXPO in Orlando
> FL.
>
> "Fire up your time machines and join us!"  {sarcasm mine}
>
> If it's really true that they haven't released a new product in three
> years
> then maybe I should worry and start looking for a different automation
> controller.  Sure it does what I want it to do - mostly - but I really
> want
> it to do a lot more like interface easily with RF.  You can get a MiniITX
> PC
> for less than a Leopard with USB, ethernet, modem, video, sound, and much,
> much more and you can program it in a high level language.
>
> Having to search forums one at a time - that's just *gruesome!*  I feel
> like
> I am playing the original Adventure game when I try to search for things.
> "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."  Cripes indeed!
> What do they say in response to the complaints?  I haven't griped to them
> yet since it seems they HAVE to know how awful it is and I still want them
> to like me enough to answer my questions!  Oy!  A company's website
> reflects
> on their all-around competence, I'm afraid.  I also thought that I read
> one
> of their key men has left for someplace else (was it to work for Smarthome
> or am I imagining all this?).
>
> <sigh>
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
>
>