Well I just installed a small number of jetstream switches and it was quite a simple task. Wiring is straight forward, and I had more time spent figuring out how the existing three ways were configured than any switch issues. The switches themselves fit pretty much anywhere you could put a standard dimmer. While I have not found much online info on jetstream, there was much of it centering around the bezel problems. The explanation given to me was that the original bezels have a molded "Z" shaped piece that acts as the spring and contains the pads that are applied to the micro switch when they are pressed forward by the paddle. Initially these were small enough to sometime slide off the side of the micro switch and cause damage to the switch. The interim fix has been to enlarge those pads. The long term is to move the pads that press on the switch to the paddle itself. There were also comments about how hard these were to push, and we have not found that to be the case. Whether those complaints were a result of the initial design I don't know, but the 4'11 gal in charge o the household has no complaints on the pressure required on the switches. We have both 3 button and singles. They don’t have a wonderful tactile feedback, (no big click) but I press one and it works. The Mrs. likes her switches.
The setup couldn’t be simpler. Plug in the USB stick, start the software, click on discover and all the switches that are wired, or new to the network start flashing their LEDs rapidly. Go press on one and a window pops up for you to name and configure it. (Switch only, dimmer, ramp on / off rates etc.) Once all the switches are captured, go to the scenes tab and add your devices and set levels, ramp times, etc and you have scenes. The only thing I would suggest if your going to integrate with an Elk, is plan how you want them to show in RMS and create them in that order. Otherwise you’ll have similar or related scenes on different pages of RMS. We have dinner prep, dinner, and intimate dinner scenes that have common devices, and I wanted them all together on the RMS screen. The scenes map to the ELK based on the scene number, which is assigned chronologically as they are created. So some planning here saves a lot of editing later. I actually created a couple extra scenes in each of our categories just in case we want to add something later. For now they are just programmed not to show in RMS.
I also like the ability to define a double tap on each switch for scene activation. This effectively gives you 5 scenes plus a load per three button switch. Double taps also can be used for remote loads, levels etc. Integration with the ELK went well with the main issue being my rule writing…lol The ELK knows load conditions, and other than a slight delay when using RMS on my PDA 3g connection, I have not seen the loads out of sync. The rs-232 bridge also has 3 standard scenes, one of which is vacation that produces random on / off sequence of the devices in the scene between 5 and 11 PM.. This was quite nice in the amount of rules it saved to do something comparable with the elk. So suffice it to say that I am pleased with my experience so far, and intend to add more devices in the near future.
