Everyone asks about Insteon
by on May.24, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
As with all things associated with automation I pay a lot of attention to the recent devices for sale through companies such as Power Control Systems and SmartLabs.
It should be noted that the new items for sale are not so much as much of a movement as one would imagine due to the fact that this stuff was built previously working with existing basic component products but nowadays they’re presented as a tidy package. As a side benefit you won’t feel like you need fluke testers around the house to get it working.
A few comparisons show us a few resemblances with the product lineups. For example, none of the product lineups use handheld remote items as signal relays, and it seems like all use radio frequency one way or another. Looking deeper however, things get more involved – I’d rather not try to express it at this point and make a bunch of errors, a site like this ISY-99 does a good job of highlighting any variations.
That said if anyone has thoughts relating to tricks to pull together some dough to sponsor our new obsession, kindly help me out!
