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My entire apartment is Z-Wave and I have a custom written iPad app that lets me control most everything. I've been considering putting some of those cheap 7" a
by jawngee 16y ago
My entire apartment is Z-Wave and I have a custom written iPad app that lets me control most everything.
I've been considering putting some of those cheap 7" android tablets into my walls, but I don't own the place, so I guess I'll have to wait.
X10 is a horrible joke, don't go there. Z-Wave is fantastic though.
Here are some zwave links:
http://www.z-wave.com/modules/Products/ http://www.z-wave.com/modules/Products/
http://www.smarthomeusa.com/search.php?q=z-wave http://www.smarthomeusa.com/search.php?q=z-wave
https://www.zwaveproducts.com/ https://www.zwaveproducts.com/
- nodata 16y agoSo why is X10 a joke?
- cellucci 16y agoDepending on how noisy your house's electrical system is, the commands and responses between controllers and devices can be lost. I control my sprinkler system with X10 from a Linux box and my first iteration flooded my back yard when I was on vacation a couple of years ago when a power-off command wasn't received.
- nodata 16y agoSo the problem is lack of feedback, you can't check if a command succeeded, only that it was sent? Can this be fixed at the application level with a status check?
- cellucci 16y agoFor feedback it depends on the device. Cheap light switches, for example, might just have on and off commands. Better versions will have a status command as well, and maybe a multi-level dim, etc. In my case the sprinkler switch did have status capability, but my cheesy little shell script was just assuming the commands succeeded.
- jawngee 16y agoAlso, X10 is noticeably slower than Z-Wave.
- jimmyjim 16y agoCan you remark on how much these things cost you, all said and done?
- jawngee 16y agoI've probably spent ~1K usd for 5 rooms.