As a long time Homeseer user, with almost every electrical device and light controlled either by a plug in or hard wired X10 unit, I found yesterday's Z-Wave review by Len Marten extremely useful.
Sometime ago a poster on the Homeseer forum said:
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The three best things I've ever done to improve my HA experience are:
1) Acquire HomeSeer
2) Get a W800
3) Convert from X10 to Z-Wave
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I wholeheartedly agree with 1 and 2 and until I read Len's article thought 3 was a long way off achieving in the UK. Whilst I can't see me acheiving point 3 overnight (I couldn't afford to even if all the kit was available) at least now I can see that I can start to dabble - which is how I started with X10 all those years ago!
I particularly look forward to the day when I can eliminate all those false triggers.
I've just come back from holidays to find one front bedroom's curtains closed - during the afternoon! The Homeseer log shows everything working as it should but at some time during the 2 week holiday a curtain open event must have failed so that the 'close at night open in the morning' events must have got out of sequence.
Thanks for the motivation Len.
Malcolm
Sometime ago a poster on the Homeseer forum said:
=================
The three best things I've ever done to improve my HA experience are:
1) Acquire HomeSeer
2) Get a W800
3) Convert from X10 to Z-Wave
=================
I wholeheartedly agree with 1 and 2 and until I read Len's article thought 3 was a long way off achieving in the UK. Whilst I can't see me acheiving point 3 overnight (I couldn't afford to even if all the kit was available) at least now I can see that I can start to dabble - which is how I started with X10 all those years ago!
I particularly look forward to the day when I can eliminate all those false triggers.
I've just come back from holidays to find one front bedroom's curtains closed - during the afternoon! The Homeseer log shows everything working as it should but at some time during the 2 week holiday a curtain open event must have failed so that the 'close at night open in the morning' events must have got out of sequence.
Thanks for the motivation Len.
Malcolm
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