IVB
Senior Member
FYI: To make things harder, CQC does TTS too, at least I've noticed it on the Supported Devices page for months now. I don't do that so I haven't paid attention to it or how good it is.
The $2500 also gets you a $1200 touchscreen and 4 $150 keypads, right? How many do you currently have? Is the below apples-apples?
If I add correctly, that's
Option 1-HS) $250+$350+$180+($1200 for TS) ~$2K (no slimserver integration with this)
Option 2-Elk) $2500
Option 3-CQC&Elk)$3K (FYI: Squintz was explaining to me over on CQC how to use the Elk phone integration to trigger things in CQC, didn't quite follow. This means you have SlimServer and *some* phone, but i'm sure the SG is much better.)
Mike brought up:
Option 4-CQC alone)$500 plus cost to build StarGate plugin, won't get you phone.
I'd bet that for $1K, you could get any of a few driver writers on CQC to do a decent StarGate plugin, then you could get the Elk whenever you want (ie if the StarGate died). That would make option 4 more like $1500, and you get StarGage plus Insteon, but no phone.
I don't know if any of this really helps you, I'm not smart enough to really advise, just pointing out facts that I think are interesting.
The $2500 also gets you a $1200 touchscreen and 4 $150 keypads, right? How many do you currently have? Is the below apples-apples?
If I add correctly, that's
Option 1-HS) $250+$350+$180+($1200 for TS) ~$2K (no slimserver integration with this)
Option 2-Elk) $2500
Option 3-CQC&Elk)$3K (FYI: Squintz was explaining to me over on CQC how to use the Elk phone integration to trigger things in CQC, didn't quite follow. This means you have SlimServer and *some* phone, but i'm sure the SG is much better.)
Mike brought up:
Option 4-CQC alone)$500 plus cost to build StarGate plugin, won't get you phone.
I'd bet that for $1K, you could get any of a few driver writers on CQC to do a decent StarGate plugin, then you could get the Elk whenever you want (ie if the StarGate died). That would make option 4 more like $1500, and you get StarGage plus Insteon, but no phone.
I don't know if any of this really helps you, I'm not smart enough to really advise, just pointing out facts that I think are interesting.