Re: new z-wave gateway

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I didn't see anything in the zControl feature list
> that isn't doable with existing gear.  No "killer app" in other words.

Existing gear is often a clusterfuck of mix-and-match complexity, or
exhorbitantly overpriced.

> I suspect the housing downturn and the threat of devastating litigation
> may
> cause the shakeout of more than one player in the HA market.  About the
> only
> thing I'm sure of is that it won't be X-10.

X-10's done nothing new, still sucks and is still a hack implementation.

The market could certainly benefit from a more reasonably priced
plug-and-play approach.