The problem with Insteon is that they need to do what they say. They are finally after about 5 years truly having dual mesh devices that were originally in the advertising hype and white paper. Had they done that from day one I think they would have had a LOT less problems.
Of course SH will skew their advertising to say Insteon is the best as will Zwave and UPB. The real measure is customer satisfaction and reliability of the products. While I am not able to back my opinion with facts at the moment I would say that more people probably abandoned Insteon with its quaility issues etc then UPB or Zwave combined. That has probably improved a lot the past year or so but personally I would like to see the track record in 5 years or so for Insteon.
SH seems to have finally realized that they needed to implement the dual mesh to get the reliability that they have claimed since 2006 but only now seem to be acheiving (from what some people are saying it is more reliable now and I will take their word on that). I have said many times that the 5 v signal is not enough to overcome powerline noise etc and apparently SH is now admitting that. For the early adopters to have to replace all of their devices with the I2 and now the dual mesh (and whatever is next) is a huge financial hit.
Are some of the Insteon devices better looking? Yeah I agree. Are the keypads really nice (when they work)? Yeah I agree. Is Insteon cheap? Yeah I agree. But you get what you pay for as they say.
Of course SH will skew their advertising to say Insteon is the best as will Zwave and UPB. The real measure is customer satisfaction and reliability of the products. While I am not able to back my opinion with facts at the moment I would say that more people probably abandoned Insteon with its quaility issues etc then UPB or Zwave combined. That has probably improved a lot the past year or so but personally I would like to see the track record in 5 years or so for Insteon.
SH seems to have finally realized that they needed to implement the dual mesh to get the reliability that they have claimed since 2006 but only now seem to be acheiving (from what some people are saying it is more reliable now and I will take their word on that). I have said many times that the 5 v signal is not enough to overcome powerline noise etc and apparently SH is now admitting that. For the early adopters to have to replace all of their devices with the I2 and now the dual mesh (and whatever is next) is a huge financial hit.
Are some of the Insteon devices better looking? Yeah I agree. Are the keypads really nice (when they work)? Yeah I agree. Is Insteon cheap? Yeah I agree. But you get what you pay for as they say.