sbessel said:
My speed concerns are local control at the switch of the attached load, if there is something in between or a noise issue, then I have HUGE problems that NOTHING could fix
Push the on, and wait 1/2 to a full second and the light comes on.
Absolutely! I hated this local control latency. My wife hated it even more than me.
We have instant-on fluroescent lighting in the kitchen. And I mean instant, not just fast. With mechanical switches, it is instant. With switchlincV1-relay switches, it is almost instant. With UPB, there is a 1/3 to 1/2 second delay for turning on or off (press off, wait, light goes out). With switchlincV2-relay, it is almost instant.
Interestingly, switchlincV2-relays are not quite as snappy as I remember the switchlincV1-relays. Again, I'm talking about local control latency, not over-the-wire latency.
My theory about the UPB dimmer switches is that they were waiting to see if you did a double-tap, because you can program them to do different things for single-tap vs double-tap. My secondary theory is that the rocker front-end is communicating to the load control backend with slow UPB messages. However, it didn't seem to make any difference if you set UPStart to turn off dimmer mode and set single or double tap to do the same thing.
I wanted to try the HAI UPB relay switches (real relays, not dimmers pretending to be relays), but both of my test HAI modules died a few days apart and my wife got annoyed that I opened up the kitchen light switches YET AGAIN... That was pretty much the last straw for us. And besides, the HAI switches "felt" cheap and flimsy compared to the SA and Smarthome switches.
The transmission buzz noise that the SA and HAI devices made reminds me of cheap or failing capacitor noise in computers. I found it really unsettling.
Aside from the flakey powerlincv2 firmware and the lack of link management software, Insteon has worked really really well for us over the last two months. It has actually been more reliable than UPB, for us, in our house. And the WAF has been way higher.