Re: XTB - the Future of X10 has arrived!

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I converted from mostly Leviton's latest line of switches, a few
Smarthome switches and some plain old Appliance and Lamp Modules.  The
Leviton switches were never so great - I like the Smarthome ones better
but they came out after the house was done 4 years ago.  At least I had
the soft start dimming and the other nice features.

Unless you program large scenes there is really no need to to use the V2
switches since the ICONs do most everything for half the price.  The one
thing they say it doesn't have, adjustable on and off ramping, is wrong.
They DO have it and it works just like the the V2s. They just don't tell
you about it.  As one who joined their development group, I was extended
a one time discount on the V2 stuff that made it the same price as the
ICONs so I now have mostly V2s which do have prettier lights. Had they
not offered the discounts I would have all ICONs.

> What did you convert from? Folks migrating from a couple of dozen x10
> WS467 wall switches to a like number of $19.99 INSTEON wall switches
> will both find it hard to spend anything like $2000 and will enjoy
> immediate payback in terms of tactile response, visual aesthetics,
> possibly better hash filtering ( still working to quantify this),
> probably longevity of the hardware (my WS 467's fail with appalling
> regularity) freedom from interdevice interference, lack of start -up
> flash when dimming, more accurate dim levels, ability to logically
> gang switches and so on. I have at least of each of the available
> INSTEON switches and dimmers  and am hard-pressed to find a reason to
> buy the $40 switches and dimmers instead of the $20 ones.
>
> <various snips>
> ... Marc
> Marc_F_Hult
> www.ECOntrol.ora