Re: [LHA-misc] Audrey's up and running

[Neil C. <nc...@ho...>]

Jay Hogg wrote:
> 
> Neil,
> 
> You missed the list also on the reply ;) I just hit reply-all
> 3 times before I looked at the headers...

Doh! (Banging head against wall)
 
> I've had parallel/related discussions going between this list,
> AppDig, and a private one. I'm having to watch the replies
> carefully.

It's like tip toeing though land mines, I know the feeling.
 
> I was going to comment that it was a rather steep price until
> I realized it included 3 switches (~$60/ea) + outlet + Software
> + Interface.  Since CeBus isn't looking so good, X-10 is X-10,
> and I still fall in the must-know-status on some stuff it looks
> like this is the next alternative.

I know there was somewhat of a push for CeBus recently on CHA but I
don't think it turned up anything useful. Lonworks definitely shows
more promise (used very heavily in industrial control).

Agreed at $312 it's not bad and there's a site on the web that info
about the protocol. As of right now ALC is not on the top of my list
of things to do so it can wait. Right now the HCS stuff ranks pretty
high, the MachZ SBC running Mr House ranks ver high and getting more
stuff on X10 (and removing the black holes) ranks highest (according
to wifey). I just discovered that my cisco 500-cs has bee the source
of my most recent problems so I'll need a filter for that.

The one thing I've noticed about X10 is that they've given up on their
PLC stuff. No quality improvement despite the fixes the community has
dropped in their lap (for free). They only seem to be playing with
wireles and it will get stomped on with the popularity of newer
wireless devices. They seem blind to their fate.

> Have you worked with this or ALC at all?

No, but John Klar has.

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