Re: Why cling to old X10?

[RickH <passport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 14, 12:58 pm, nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:
> RickH <passp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >My wife and I teach ballroom dance on the side and I DJ at some local
> >ballroom dance studios, so the basement evolved into a dance floor
> >instead of your more-typical billiards room.  Yes, all the devices are
> >to control lights, with Insteon there are no more dedicated wall
> >transmitters, even the keypads can control a single load.  With 55
> >devices and growing I am sure I'm probably loading down the line for
> >good PL transmission already, so most of my communication, I would
> >gather, is taking the RF route instead.  But I like the concept of
> >having the same mesh network living in both the RF and PLC physical
> >domain, and the backwards compatibility with X10 (but that part was
> >marketing genious that probably a certain other company wished they
> >had followed, namely UPB).
>
> Except that the duality is all marketing hype with little to no substance.
> The SignaLincs (since replaced with a new model due to flaws in the initial
> design) only send/receive RF with each other - there's no RF mesh network -
> the other switches and modules neither send nor receive RF.
>
> Very little necessary communication is taking the RF route. It's only needed
> to couple the phases although some people may choose to add RF points to
> overcome PLC propagation problems which could probably be fixed with filters
> on signal sinks in the same manner as with X-10.


Wow sounds like fraud more than hype, how do you know these things?
Why has my reliability been so good?  The documentation says that each
device is an RF repeater.  Also if it's not going RF why is it so much
faster than X10?  I have no filters in the house and no SignalLinc in
the basement at all, just on the 2nd floor.  On one branch circuit I'm
running about 15 or more devices, it was my understanding that Leviton
X10 recommends a max of 4 devices for a branch circuit before signal
absorption.  All this evidence led me to believe it was going RF, now
I'd be disappointed if it's not.  Are these bugs documented anywhere?