Threshold ONE-NET Home Automation

[GraysonPeddie]

Has anyone came across ONE-NET that Threshold uses?

The protocol is open-source, meaning you can make changes if you want to and if you click in the big image with the BlueSpot communicating with each other while it's programming, it will take you to the web page with two videos.

Thus, I'll look forward and I can't wait to see what Threshold has to offer when they'll be releasing the products soon (I don't know how soon, since I saw "Coming Soon" next to every product listing in the Product page).

I'm hoping that one day, I can be able to communicate with ONE-NET devices with either Windows or Linux and be able to choose my programming language that I want (for me, I prefer C# with either Mono 2.6 or .net Framework 4.0). :mellow:

EDIT: But there is something strange, though. I've looked in the product page and I saw this:

Threshold will be releasing a full line of Smart Home devices throughout 2009.

Do you think it's due to the lack of interest/demand for ONE-NET-based products from Threshold?

 

[electron]

I spoke with the owner several years back, it really did sound interesting, and they pushed this technology hard, getting many media outlets to cover it. In the end, I stopped getting responses to my e-mails, and not a single peep from them anywhere else either. IMO, this is vaporware until proven otherwise.

If you want to interface an interesting standard, look at the new ZigBee home automation profiles.

 

[GraysonPeddie]

Thanks.

I'm a computer geek and I love to tinker with Linux, so I thought that home automation products with ONE-NET would suit me well, but oh well. It's very sad

Update: Okay, I've looked over in ZigBee Home Automation Certified Products and with the search of "Linux" and I saw that ZEB102 supports Linux, but I didn't see it in Netgear's website. Am I missing anything? I could go with a USB dongle that supports Linux.

 

[GraysonPeddie]

Hi, everyone. It's been weeks since I haven't got the e-mail from Threshold until now, so I got the permission from Derek and I'm happy to share it with anyone who's interested:

Grayson,

There was a glitch in our e-mail forwarding, so your e-mail got sent to a "dead letter" box. Hence the late replay. Apologies for that.

Threshold is still a functioning company. We had some setbacks and didn't meet the 2009 deadline. We're also running a pretty lean staff, so we don't currently have a full time webmaster, so the site definitely needs some updating, if for no other reason than to show people we're still alive. We just haven't had the time/staff to do it. There have been several recent developments, but until they're finalized, we can't post them on the website.

We currently have no products available for retail sale. We are in the advanced development stage and are in talks with manufacturers and retail stores to finalize the product parameters. I've bumped the date back from 2009 to 2011 on the website.

The correct name is threshold-smarthome.com (with the hyphen). We need to change the code so that it's more consistent. We own both thresholdsmarthome.com and threshold-smarthome.com. We want people to use threshold-smarthome.com in e-mails. thresholdsmarthome.com is also supposed to forward to threshold-smarthome.com. You can contact me directly at [email protected]

We're located in Petaluma, CA. If you are in the area and would like to see a demonstration of the product, I can arrange that.

Again, sorry for the late reply and thanks for your interest in the company.

Sincerely,



Derek Samson
Threshold Corporation
707-769-1477 ext. 115

 

[electron]

Thanks for the update!

 

[GraysonPeddie]

No prob!