Re: HA Primer - Pos and cons of X-10, Z-wave, Insteon, UPB

[mmikem32 <pinzen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 28, 10:34 am, nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:
> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> If the controller is centrally located, 4 hops in every direction
> >> can cover a home that is ~200 long by ~200 feet wide
>
> >That's nice if it's possible to centrally locate the controller.
>
> If you're the owner of this specious estate and want to walk around the
> perimeter of your network while using a handheld remote to control it,
> you'll find that you can only control 1/2 (or less) of the network from
> anywhere on the perimeter as signals fall off the edge of the earth after 4
> hops.

The device was a plugin device.  I have the homeseer z-troller so it
doesn't act as a hand held remote. but, I loaded homeseer on my
laptop, connected the z-troller up and walked around the house setting
off events. Every device worked from every location.  This took a bit
of time to make sure that the all devices were working from each place
I stopped.  Now...all devices may be working because I have so many
devices in the house now.  But they do work.  So I am not really on
board with all the negative talk about Z-wave.  It all has worked
flawless for me from day one.