Brandon Beattie wrote:
Insteon though takes it a few steps further and repeats and acknowledges signals and you must program a switch to listen to a specific switch in order for you to remotely turn it on or off. Zigby is even more secure than Insteon in that you're not allowed to "join" the automation group unless you allow it to (this is what I remember but I can't promise it's right)
FWIW, I see that Zigbee is taking off now. I just found a Freescale chip at Mouser.com that integrates both a microcontroller and a Zigbee module for $5 each in quantity. There are now several other suppliers as well. That's seriously cool. AFAICT Zigbee is more of a general networking protocol than a home automation standard.
Has anyone in the group tried programming Freescale MCUs with Linux? Boy would I like to mess with these chips.
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