Insteon chips

[Dave Houston]

I'm told the Insteon chips (both powerline and wireless) are on schedule to
ship in June. They are supposed to be quite inexpensive even in single
quantities and will be available online. I expect we will soon start to see
a lot of additional Insteon devices like temperature sensors, door/window
switches, etc. I think it would be an excellent way to do a whole house
power monitor.

[Dave Houston]

nobody@whocares.com (Dave Houston) wrote:

>I'm told the Insteon chips (both powerline and wireless) are on schedule to
>ship in June. They are supposed to be quite inexpensive even in single
>quantities and will be available online. I expect we will soon start to see
>a lot of additional Insteon devices like temperature sensors, door/window
>switches, etc. I think it would be an excellent way to do a whole house
>power monitor.

I've gotten an update. The PLC chips should be available this month (<$2)
and the wireless chips next month (<$3).

The PLC chips do both Insteon and X-10 while the wireless chips only do
Insteon.

I still have serious reservations about SmartLabs license restrictions so I
probably will not do anything with these, since there is no way to buy them
without submitting to their license terms, but I do plan to look into
designing some wireless generic input devices (ADC and/or DIO) using
something like the Chipcon CC1100 transceiver.