Re: Switching audio via an Ocelot and SECU's

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

I'm with you Jeff!  My Ocelot, SECU's, SpeakEasy etc. haven't missed a beat
in the 5+ years they've been in service!

I look at ADI as a "cottage industry" company - small, but very good in
their specialized niche market.

Many companies have almost no support and, while the ADI board is not
perfect, it is a great tool for getting questions sorted out with the
experts.  When required, ADI does jump in on a thread but quite frankly, I'd
rather have them spend their resources on product development than on
monitoring web boards!  One could argue in any case, that the best experts
for answering many users questions are those who are already using the
products in a similar fashion?

I also follow several other boards (e.g. Ulead which is a very large
company) where the companies involved never post.

X10 is a huge company by comparison to ADI but have poor products and even
poorer support (they appear to rely on public Newsgroups and FAQ's)?

John W

"Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>> I guess it really torques me that they are allegedly automation EXPERTS
> and
>> they can't get their web page automated worth a tinker's damn!!!!!
>> That's
>> *not* that kind of company I want to buy automation SW, HW or firmware
> from.
>> "We know it's crappy, but we can't be bothered fixing it" is the attitude
>> such I read from poor website design.  From what I managed to glean from
>> Google and elsewhere, it wasn't until Bryan Karras, as a vendor, started
> his
>> own CPUXA forum that ADI got their act in gear to deploy one - they
>> apparently had nothing up until that point. A *vendor* had to do their
>> job
>> for them.  No warm and fuzzy feeling there, either, I'm afraid.
>
> I have to jump in here to defend ADI.  Being a wizard on imbedded system
> design doesn't make one a wizard on HTML or JAVA.  They are different
> skills.  And I would rather have someone who focuses his full effort on
> hardware designing my automation equipment.
>
> Our Ocelot runs 24/7 week after week with no glitches.  That is expected
> of
> industrial automation equipment, which is where the Ocelot came from.
> People here talk about X10 not being reliable.  I would never trust my
> automation to a PC running 24/7, at least not using any M$ software more
> complicated than DOS.
>
> Jeff
>
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