Re: garage remote jamming

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:45f2a463.1523046593@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >So I cranked up Google to search for "RadioRA NYC problems" and that led
to
> >another document at:
> >
> >http://www.radiora.biz/technical_info/pdf/RFwhitepaper.pdf.

<stuff snipped>

> That's about equal parts puffery and technical and seems to be more their
> response to ZigBee than anything else. Their critique of "RF standards"
and
> mesh networks would apply equally to Z-Wave.

Interesting.  Zigbee probably would be their main competitive concern.
Proprietary protocol vendors always fear open system designs the most and
with good reason.  Let me count the proprietary schemes that have fallen
over dead.  Microchannel PC cards.  Microsoft's HELP file format.

> They use 418MHz ASK/OOK which is also used by almost all of the IR
extenders
> (e.g. Powermid) and most of the RF-capable high-end touchscreen remotes
> (e.g. Pronto). In Europe, all of the above as well as several RF based
> lights/appliance systems use 433.92MHz (i.e. their "B" frequency) and, if
> RadioRA sells in Europe they are also required to use 433.92MHz.
>
> Any nearby ~418MHz transmitter will jam their "A" frequency" and any
nearby
> ~434MHz transmitter will jam their "B" frequency.