Email from Intermatic

[Squintz]

Dear Mr. Powell:

Intermatic Home Automation line has been delayed for another 2
months. There is no limitation on manufacturing 3-way switches - they will
be in our second generation of products. You can contact me for any
questions that you have.

If I may ask, where did you get information on our program?

Art Noparstak
Marketing Manager
815-675-7164

I did reply and asked him to please participate in our forum. I informed him that there is allot of feedback on both the CocoonTech and HomeSeer site which they are missing out on by not participating in our discussions. I also stressed the fact that the reason most people have not took the plunge into z-wave is because of the lack of information provided to the customers and the fact that there are no 3 Way switches.

I sure hope the people at Intermatic will join us.

Does anyone have any other question you want me to ask him. I'm not going to post his e-mail address in fear that it might get bombarded with useless email than he might start ignoring me and everyone else.

 

[electron]

Definitely get him involved here on CocoonTech, as many people new to HA are surfing these boards (vs you have to be a member on the HS forums). Thanks for keeping us up to date!

 

[astroturf]

A little off topic, but the development kit for Z-Wave is rumored to be ~ 6000 dollars which would definately limit the number of software products supporting it. I personally like www.premisesystems.com and feel that homeseer is a bit clunky for my taste. So, I am staying away until Premise supports it.... I could definately use it though, tired of X10 flakiness....

 

[AutomatedOutlet]

astroturf

How do you like the premise software? I went to a demo/training class for it held by premise about 6 months ago. It looked to me like a nice system but geared really towards installers. It looked like a pretty steep learning curve as well/

What are your thoughts?

Thanks,