Re: Why cling to old X10?

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dan Wright" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:i5NFi.80888

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> While I left X10 for ZWave, I do miss the richness of the product
offerings
> and the near perfect interoperability between vendors.  Zwave has been
100%
> in all of our installations, but to keep it tight, I have to stick to one
> vendor.

That near perfect interoperability came only after quite a bit of experience
had been gained by power users who took the arrows for the rest of us.  PCS
reinvented the X-10 wheel and caused some serious heartaches both for
themselves and their customers.

But your point is well-taken.  I think the PCS experience led X-10
compatible makers to steer clear of unusual, obsolete or otherwise
problematic code schemes to the benefit of the X-10 protocol in general.
Manufacturers are addicted to proprietary enhancements the way some people
take to crack.  It takes great strength of corporate will to commit to open
standards but that's why X-10 now has millions of users.

--
Bobby G.