Re: XTB II Review

["BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I've been in the "new" house for almost 5 years now and the
Insteon stuff replaced most of my X10 based Leviton and Smarthome stuff.
However, I'm now building a new home another city and I plan to use all
the removed X10 stuff there with an XTB II at the headend.

 Robert Green wrote:
> "BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> If this device were available a year ago I probably
>> wouldn't have bought any Insteon stuff.  As for Insteon, The XTB II
>> does nothing adverse to the Insteon signaling.
>
> When I was beta testing the XTB-I for Jeff, you were describing your
> new Insteon installation's progress and I really wondered if I had
> gone down the right path.  Now that I've bought a few more XTB's, I'm
> absolutely sure I did the right thing for me.
>
> As for your house, since you were building new, choosing Insteon
> wasn't nearly the issue it was for people like me faced with a
> housewide retrofit. You advanced the state of knowledge for the group
> by describing your installation and probably did end up with a more
> reliable system overall, so you choosing Insteon had lots of
> positives.
>
> Once again I have near total reliability and it took me about five
> minutes of unplugging and replugging equipment to achieve it.
> Schweeeeeet!  During the rare times I have the Monterey out to track
> some weirdness down, I am still stunned to see such large voltages
> reported, having become used to years of 70mv readings and less.  It
> always reminds me of the line from "Aliens" when Bill Paxton says of
> the alien detector's chirping: "That's a big f__king signal!"  Yes,
> indeed!
>
> [Thanks again, Jeff.]