Re: A mentor / Advisor ?

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If I wanted to read Z-Wave propaganda
> I'd just take Bass out of my killfile.

That was uncalled for.  For what it's worth, I don't sell Zwave.  The one Zwave component I offer is an ELK interface for people who
buy their Zwave stuff elsewhere. Mr. Houston has repeatedly criticized Zwave without ever having so much as seen it, let alone
tested it.  As best I can tell, his objection to Zwave stems from an argument he had with another person who does sell Zwave in his
online store.

While Insteon might be a useful solution, it lacks one major thing that is essential to its continued success, even its continuing
availability.  There is virtually no third party support.  One company manufactures it.  No one else is making Insteon wall outlets,
dimmers, switches, etc.  When (not if) that company decides to drop the product everyone who bought it is going to be SOL.

By comparison, Zwave has the support of the following companies, all of whom are manufacturing or developing Zwave compatible
products:

Danfoss, Intel, Intermatic, Leviton,
Monster Cable, Wayne Dalton, Zensys,
A-1 Components, ACT, Allion,
Ascendek Electronics, Boca Devices,
Bulogics, Casa Works, Control Think,
Cooper Wiring Devices, Crayon Interface,
Cybertan, Digital Media Research,
Destiny Networks, Eldat,
Electronic Solutions Inc, ELK Products,
Embedded Automation,
Emergency Power & Automation Specialists,
Exceptional Inovation, Goggin Research,
RCS, Werner Reitz, Semilink, SMK,
Superna, Techniku, Tell It Online,
Tridium Software, TwisThink, uControl,
Viewsonic, Visualize Inc, Xanboo, Zykronix.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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