X10 Community Forum
💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tucson on January 11, 2016, 08:37:00 AM
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I'm beginning to wonder if a new wifi Hub is the right approach. Or due we just need a RF bridge between either Bluetooth, Z-wave ... or ZigBee and X10 so we can use one of the new Smart Home Hubs such as the Samsung SmartThings Hub. These new Hubs already talk to a large number of devices such as Nest, SmartThings, Amazon Echo and have good UI's. It would require only a simple hardware bridge and minimal software. You might even get good support from one of these new Hub manufacturers so they can increase their user base.
Hope this makes sense my sons been up sick all night and it's 6 AM in the morning sometimes you get some weird thoughts.
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There was an article regarding the recent CES that questioned whether there's sufficient compatibility between the various IoT devices/platforms/hubs, etc. to decide a direction to take. I've raised that same compatibility issue here. Also, few, if any, of the hubs speak X10 so I suspect X10 users will always need some way to integrate with whatever other hub(s) they choose. And, if the hub manufacturers wanted X10 users, they would have already included support. I suspect none want to deal with X10 support issues - that's probably why Leviton, RCA, IBM, RadioShack, et al dropped their X10 products.