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Where will the pricing on this be? Do we expect it to be competitive with Insteon pricing?

The more companies developing Insteon products the better. Yes, it's hype, but at least Insteon works everytime. I would rather see people jumping on that bandwagon than the UPB sinkhole. $39 Insteon switches or $74 UPB switches, is this a trick question? :)

Doesn't Honeywell own HAL? If so, I am not sure it is newsworthy that a company got it's hardware and software to work together.

I saw INSTEON on the Home Depot website this morning. In fact there is a section on Home Automation on their website (under shop electronics) that I have never noticed before. Is this common knowledge that Home Depot is getting into Home Automation? I know Lowe's has a couple Intermatic...

If anyone is interested, I saw Insteon switchlincs for $39.99. I don't know if this is a new price or a sale price. Here's the link: Smarthome

I hear you. There are clearly 2 different parts of this: 1. The protocol, which according to the white paper allows for both powerline and RF Smarthome is licensing Insteon to other manufacturers, and the protocol appears to allow for powerline-only products, RF-only products and dual-band...

If you have read all of the INSTEON marketing materials and whitepapers, and all of them say that it is a Powerline and RF network combined, where is the"hype"? I haven't seen anything saying that INSTEON is an RF network only. I doubt that INSTEON would want to be known as an RF only protocal...

Couldn't you just use a pen with ink that glows in the dark? Having the whole paper light up might be hard to read. And the pens are very cheap, $2.50 each: http://www.epartyunlimited.com/glowpen.html