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A little over a year ago Wes indicated that when UDI "released" z-wave hardware in some form other than "Alpha" then Mobilinc would begin to "look at" Android z-wave support. http://forum.mobilinc.com/viewtopic.php ... 84e1#p5017 Half a year ago UDI was selling z-wave hardware and it's associated software module. Both the hardware and software were NOT offered as "Alpha" or "Beta" or "Gamma" or any other greek symbol. They were we sold at retail. A week ago Wes was again asked when UDI z-wave support would be available in the Android version of Mobilinc. http://forum.mobilinc.com/viewtopic.php ... 84e1#p5889 Wes responded that UDI z-wave hardware was still in "Beta" and not yet released. http://forum.mobilinc.com/viewtopic.php ... 84e1#p5899 Bare in mind that this was about a week ago. A couple days later the UDI Natives began to get restless. viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15000&p=117286#p116837 Since UDI views Mobilinc as the only viable Software to operate the ISY via an android phone viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15000#p116853 Michel appearently contacted Wes and asked for a forum post to "shed some light". viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15000&p=117329#p117362 In this post Wes indicated that their were a number of nondiscloseable "factors" which caused the inability to "deliver updates". From the amount of communication on this forum between UDI and Mobilinc it is clear that UDI knows the status of Mobilinc software and Mobilinc knows the status of UDI hardware. Gents, Neither of you are selling this stuff as Beta. It isn't cheap. And the software isn't testware or freeware or shareware either. As a result your MSRP customers are entitled to straight answers. Michel is the z-wave hardware Beta or not, and Wes are you going to get Android z-wave support out with this release or not? Pretty simple questions. How about simple straightforward answers.

In view of their fundraising, their efforts to sell the company, the sparse forum participation, and broken promises made in the forum.....I'd say "elsewhere" is being rather generous. We did after all pay for the program.

"Leviton decided to go to ZWave" "let out QC nightmares" "Smartlabs Licensing Requirements and overly tight grip on their protocol" Indeed...this Smarthome/Insteon bunch was a real piece of work long before Insteon came along. Remember? It's principal must be a real "tool". They've chased the balance of the manufacturing industry right out the door. I think I'll go with a different format which has a little more ethical leadership. Somebody's a little too proud of their patent.

Before throwing a houseful of X10 stuff in the trash and buying a raft of new Insteon stuff, I thought I would ask the group what everyone thought about the future of Insteon. Is 2008 going to consume the Insteon universe as it did the X10 group? Insteon does not appear to have gained dominant market penetration and it certainly doesn't look like a lot of product development is underway. Is the Insteon format a dying horse too?

Having just dump a bunch of money into an Insteon system for my home, I would like to ask if Insteon is going the way of X10? Is 2008 going to take out Smarthome like it did the X10 bunch? Or is it product quality that's getting too them? You don't have to be real observant to see that Insteon isn't exactly on fire and heavens knows it has had enough time to catch on.