Me thinks a few things about this.
- The ISY and PLM will do well and you will end up liking it.
- After seeing the ISY perform you will forget controlling it with outside software from a computer or other powered device, especially if it is not a dedicated machine taking up energy money. ISY can do it all, independently, for about 2 watts.
- You may migrate to Insteon devices as they are much more reliable for communications and feedback to know devices have actually operated.
Insteon is great for most fields of usage but lacks in the thermostat and door lock fields. Z-Wave fills in that gap and with the ISY drop in board (BLH) is controllable from one small independent box.
Get yourself over the UDI forum and ask questions. There is a lot of very knowledgeable friendly help over there. BLH (I am guessing) is one of the top X10 and hardware experts there, even though he must be over 130 X10-years old by now.
- The ISY and PLM will do well and you will end up liking it.
- After seeing the ISY perform you will forget controlling it with outside software from a computer or other powered device, especially if it is not a dedicated machine taking up energy money. ISY can do it all, independently, for about 2 watts.
- You may migrate to Insteon devices as they are much more reliable for communications and feedback to know devices have actually operated.
Insteon is great for most fields of usage but lacks in the thermostat and door lock fields. Z-Wave fills in that gap and with the ISY drop in board (BLH) is controllable from one small independent box.
Get yourself over the UDI forum and ask questions. There is a lot of very knowledgeable friendly help over there. BLH (I am guessing) is one of the top X10 and hardware experts there, even though he must be over 130 X10-years old by now.