by Adeptus CEO | Apr 16, 2014 | Audio, Control System, Home Audio and Video, Integration, Smart Home, Video
A personal testament to my experience with these technologies – don’t take it personal I have read a lot of articles that talk about Smart Homes they often discuss Z-wave, Zigbee and Power Line Communication and the many devices available to the consumer. They have control valves and thermostats and pool lighting controllers and garage door openers and timers and just about everything you never cared about controlling available. The articles usually laud the differences between these technologies, I won’t because they don’t work. I have worked with Z-wave, Zigbee and PLC in many projects and I can tell you in general its slow and prone to failure. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not talking about clinical trials here I’m talking about real life in home day-to-day, week to week, month to month problems. I’ve had systems install flawlessly from go. I set it up program it and everything lights up. I’m happy. I’m actually surprised and super stoked I get to go home on time – this almost never happens. Annnndddd just as I’m about to do a full walk thru after cleaning up something just doesn’t quite catch on a command, one device is not responding in sequence or the volume suddenly seems like its touchy. I don’t immediately throw my hands up and rip it all out I assume it’s probably just a mistake or bad timing. But then it happens again and then something else that was flawless before suddenly crashes. I start to get that sick feeling that tells me I’m not going home and I’m going to be on the phone...
