Re: Insteon -- Any New Experiences?

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The RF repeaters are more effective than hardwired couplers and
repeaters. I have 4 installed now and will probably add one or two more
to my 8500sf home. The advantage is that, once the first pair is
properly installed on both legs, additional units can be simply plugged
into trouble spots to solve a problem.


> The white paper explains a lot of what Insteon COULD do. But, if you
> look on
> the product pages to for the actual devices, they don't say they are
> RF.
>
> But to be fair, when I first started reading about it, I inferred
> that they
> were both powerline and RF (like Z-Wave and X10 combined). However,
> some
> simple research on the web, SmartHome, and etc. explained it pretty
> clearly
> that the devices available now were not RF.
>
> On the positive side, the RF repeaters allow you to get signal to a
> place
> via an alternate pathway.
>
> "fpmacko" <fpmacko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1142210534.767730.265200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oops.  I erred in the orignal posting.  When I said "boosterlinc" I
> should have said "powerlinc", of which I was using the USB flavor as
> my
> PC's interface to the network.  Regarding my reading of the white
> paper, while I admit that I didn't take the time to read it as closely
> as I should have, you're not entirely accurate in saying they use RF
> only to couple the two phases.  The figure on page 8 indicates that
> Insteon RF devices are also members of the RF network.  But the bottom
> line is that they do indeed advertise this as a wireless system, which
> is not entirely true...quoting their literature ...... "INSTEONT is a
> powerful, wireless home-control networking technology that simply,
> affordably and reliably integrates....."   But it ain't entirely
> wireless.  I was looking forward to getting away from the
> inconsistencies of my x10 coverage by foresaking powerline signaling.
> Their mention of the fact that I may need filters in order to make
> Insteon work properly should have been a hint to me that it isn't
> really as wireless as they say it is.  But to be fair, their refund
> was
> full and prompt.
>
>
>
>
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