Re: garage remote jamming

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com> wrote in message
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> > With more and more HA applications using RF in some manner, it will
likely
> > be an ongoing issue
>
> Oh please, that's just completely unsubstantiated FUD.

I wouldn't say that.  This is at least the third instance I've heard or read
about where significant numbers of people have had to retool to accommodate
new RF interference from military ops.  If there are three we know about
that usually means that there are plenty more that we don't hear about.  If
you were to experience any problems and called the Post to say your Lutron
RA system was hosed, it would very likely *never* be considered newsworthy
because so few others would likely be calling in.  Same for an X-10 or
Z-wave system.  Not enough users for anyone to care if the Marines were
jamming them.  Garage openers and automobile key fobs?  Lots of users to
complain.

> > It's one more reason why I think a reliable PLC system
>
> Which have proven themselves to be horrendously unreliable in residential
> settings.  No thanks.

If it's absolutely, positively got to work without any possibility of
interference, go hard wired.  Neither PLC nor RF is immune to interference.

> > And, those who import X-10 gear from the USA to save money should be
aware
> > that the French military uses the same RF frequencies that N. American
> X-10
> > gear uses.
>
> Unless you're worried about being able to turn the lights off as their
army
> retreats it shouldn't be much of a concern...

Hey, if it weren't for General Lafayette, we might not have gained our
independence from Merry Olde England.  Some Frenchies have spunk.  Look at
Napoleon.  (-:

--
Bobby G.