Re: XTB - the Future of X10 has arrived!

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you'll soon see my XTB review. Jeff shipped my units this morning
and I'll have them by the weekend. I ordered one assembled and one kit -
I enjoy kit building but not enough to do two.
I should point out, regarding the bandwidth/macros comments, that when I
was using only X10 my macros executed flawlwessly 99% the time. It was
the increasing number of trouble spots where X10 wouldn't penetrate that
drove me to add Insteon. Now my macros have delays because the Insteon
translator is listening to X10 signals and send ing Insteon signals. In
a macro Insteon is sending  on top of the TW523's X10 signals which
causes problems.


> "BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>> BUT, just how much bandwidth is really needed to turn on a light
>> switch? Really no more now than 30 years ago.
>
> Nomad has a point, though.  If the BPS were faster, you would not
> likely be experiencing some of the macro problems you are.  HA
> transmission do need to be faster because the time lag for X-10 has
> always been there and chaining macros really makes it obvious that
> it's slow.
>
>> What's REALLY important to me is that the light goes on or off
>> when it should, every time.  To that end I've ripped out all my X10 >
> stuff in favor of Insteon. It works much better for single commands
>> BUT, until I can run a macro error free without  inserting a bunch
>> of delays, it's actually not as good as what I had with X10.
>
> That's a courageous admission but you're also in a rather unique
> situation with the Stargate.  I'm really chafing to see how the XTB
> performs in the Aloha state.  I think you'll be wowed.
>
>> So if the XTB can solve the X10 signalling issues I'll
>> happily use the X10 feature of the Insteon switches til I have a
>> better controller.
>
> Well, for me, the XTB arrived at a time when I had done all I could
> do to make X-10 better but ran out of tools.  I'm still looking to
> upgrade to something better, but I don't feel as pressured as I did
> by X-10's previous unreliability.