I put in my M1G in 2012. I had to replace some smokes that were defective, but otherwise it is still going strong, everything works.
I was just updating some rules for lighting in prep for a vacation and it brings up something I think about every year or so....
I only put UPB controllers on a few light circuits as a test, then decided that all the lighting automation changes are happening so fast I would wait a bit.
That's been the state now for the last 5 years, and I still have only a few lights controlled and would like to put in a lot more.
The UPB switches have gone UP in price in that time, whereas everything else automation wise keeps coming down. I'd like to get a dozen or so switches so the cost is not insignificant.
Are we yet on the edge of a breakthrough, so that automation controllers, specifically lighting controllers, are changing? Getting more standardized (no sign of that I could see)?
Getting cheaper?
The M1G doesn't seem to have changed in that time either, so maybe this is a question whether I should be punting on the whole concept and using a different automation controller?
Which is another worry, the M1G seems rather long in the tooth for something electronic, and I haven't seen anything or anyone stepping up to replace it?
If I am tired of setting on the fence, where would you leap -- toward UPB and the M1G, or away toward something more modern? (And if so what? And can it tie to M1G?)
I was just updating some rules for lighting in prep for a vacation and it brings up something I think about every year or so....
I only put UPB controllers on a few light circuits as a test, then decided that all the lighting automation changes are happening so fast I would wait a bit.
That's been the state now for the last 5 years, and I still have only a few lights controlled and would like to put in a lot more.
The UPB switches have gone UP in price in that time, whereas everything else automation wise keeps coming down. I'd like to get a dozen or so switches so the cost is not insignificant.
Are we yet on the edge of a breakthrough, so that automation controllers, specifically lighting controllers, are changing? Getting more standardized (no sign of that I could see)?
Getting cheaper?
The M1G doesn't seem to have changed in that time either, so maybe this is a question whether I should be punting on the whole concept and using a different automation controller?
Which is another worry, the M1G seems rather long in the tooth for something electronic, and I haven't seen anything or anyone stepping up to replace it?
If I am tired of setting on the fence, where would you leap -- toward UPB and the M1G, or away toward something more modern? (And if so what? And can it tie to M1G?)