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Is Insteon Better than X10 for Home Automation?

Posted by Cliff on from the next-generation-of-home-automation dept.

Paul Carver writes "Smarthome has been advertising Insteon for a while now, but I haven't bought any of it, yet. I've accumulated a fair amount of X10 products over the years, including Smarthome branded signal boosters, signal couplers, noise blockers, and troubleshooting tools. Even so, I'm pretty much fed up with X10. Nothing I've bought has succeeded in making my X10 system more than 'just barely acceptable' and 'better than nothing but not by much'. A Google search for Insteon doesn't turn up much other than their own advertisements and a couple of vaguely positive but not detailed reviews. Is this new technology going to take off? What's the community's consensus on home automation?"

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  1. Star Trek Voice Command light switch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget all those fancy light automation kits, all you need is the Star Trek one http://www.smarthome.com/2017.html which gives you the power of voice commands such as "Computer, off"; simultaneously turning off the lights and your female partner.

    1. Re:Star Trek Voice Command light switch by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had one of those, but it was broken.

      Like you said, both the computer and female partner would get turned off, but only the computer would get turned back on.

      I even RTFM...

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  2. Re:Too bad for them by MustardMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Were you dropped on your head as a child? Man, you know, wal-mart sells underwear, and I really hate the business practices of wal-mart, so I'm not wearing underwear anymore.

  3. Re:I need a solution for... by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, an underground pirahna tank that drops salesmen in and plays a sound file of your evil laughter as the trapdoor slams shut?

  4. Re:Here's a grammar for Slashtroturf. by Chosen+Reject · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ooh. I love Mad libs.

    Extend as you please: "PEPSI" has been advertising "DRAIN-O" for some time. I have not bought into it yet, but my friends tell me "DRUNKEST" and "SILLIEST". In contrast, "SAM'S CHOICE" "LIQUID PLUMR" is "YOUR FATHER SMELLED OF ELDERBERRIES" and "Vous bummes, il y a un poison dans bibliotheque". What does the community think? Is "DRAIN-O" going to change the world forever?

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