Recent content by penngray

but there is an unknown cost of adding components in the future, new components will cost money in the future, if you want a couple per year then HomeSeer might just cost more. If the OP gets into full house A/V then that is where in my opinion CQC is far superior. IMO, $100 a year for full HA...

Sadly I enjoy the pissing matches a little too much :( and I like avoiding work some days :) Its all good with me, he didnt offend me at all because he doesnt know me. Xymox, Im sorry that some how I annoyed you by disagreeing with you. We can just agree to disagree here on he we preceive...

That is what Im involved with right now, very cool... We are designing a brand new order picking system (15 Million is that last figure!!!) and I have written software for 7 years for handling automated stacker system. These are monster 2 million dollar double shuttle stackers that pickup and...

A Crestron connected to a 2414S will do Insteon and everything HA. Back to the OP..... Someone already asked the question Crestron's ability to work with a 1 TB of Ripped DVDs. How do you get around this without a PC?

You still argue a different point, you are talking about probability of failure which I never disagreed with nor did I say anything about. As usually its just symantics. All my engineering friends are like you :( Yes a long time ago I went to one of the top engineering schools in the world...

A eBay Crestron would just be fun to play with.. Fun for who, you posted details about the software side of Crestron. Others posted about the non-existence support from the company unless, blah, blah, blah. To me that isnt fun Penn when you have read up on what established reliability is...

It shows a overconfidence and youth. lmao, I like that Im young again :( it could also show that I know windows updates do cause problems so why give myself extra work on something I do for free for a community (its a fantasy sports drafting site that I look after....old hobby).

Nope Doug but why?

I dont make a dime off crestron and never have. Sorry for that assumption Dont get bent out of shape. Im sure you makes lots of money with your iron ring was just having fun with your comments about smart or something. I'm a member of CERT and thats stupid. Thats poor computer management...

Go read up on this branch of engineering before posting. no prob but you must go read the definition of pedantic :(

Why are you using a PC for HA ??? To answer this question its simple..... - extreme flexibility. - least amount of learning curve - 100+ different points of support - proven performance/reliability at a fraction of the cost of all other solutions.

And ummm,,,,, Crestrons DONT NEED UPDATES. Neither do PCs, I have a webserver in my home that 50+ people hit per day and it hasnt be updated in 2 years!! Why do extreme saftey systems not use PC's and instead use -relays- ??? Dean, explained why....again Crestron is not simply relays and...

I dont understand that.... I buy a PC, I load a HA system, do some programming, test, place it in a closet and it runs......That is what I define as a closed system. So my windows PC is as closed and reliable as your Crestron device, why wouldnt it be? I dont updated it, I dont need to because...

um.....why are people updating monthly??? These are PCs that run HA and dont need constant updates. I suspect if you updated your crestron device with patches monthly it would crash too. The debate about reliability is an oranges to apples one here. I can build a PC and let it run for years...

I have spent nearly $1K on freakin' cable alone oh yeah I forgot about that cost.....I spent close to 3K on A/V wiring already.