Re: Insteon -- Any New Experiences?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

In your initial post, you said you had a BoosterLinc and now you say you
don't have a BoosterLinc. Which is it?

I haven't seen where they claim it's an RF based system. They say its a
"dual mesh network" and it should be clear to anyone who reads their
whitepaper that they only use RF to couple the two phases. They've also made
it fairly clear that filters may still be necessary.

So far, you are the only person to make negative comments here about
Insteon. Some very knowledgeable folk have tried it and, in general, liked
it.

If you have an X-10 system that works, Insteon should work without requiring
additional filters. X-10 uses 120kHz and Insteon uses 131.65kHz and the same
filtering should be adequate for both.

"fpmacko" <fpmacko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Yes, I saw that note.  I don't have a boosterlinc.  Instead, my
>existing X10 system uses an amplified homepro repeater straddling the
>two phases at the power panel.  It's likely that the UPS serving the PC
>that controlled the powerlinc USB module might have been at issue.  But
>I'm sorry....I bought insteon because they said it was an RF-based
>system.  To find out only after purchasing the equipment that there's
>this little secret about still using powerline signaling in order for
>the powerlinc to reach the two signalincs, which are in turn the
>gateway to the RF ad hoc net, makes me question their concept.  Yeah, I
>know, they said in case of difficulty just buy their powerline filters
>or move your switching loads to another circuit.   But I absolutely
>refuse to throw money at a bandaid solution because they chose to cut
>corners.  The system is EXTREMELY to placement of the devices, so
>buying filters and such would be a perpetual crapshoot.