Satisfied X10 User

[Knightrider]

Hello,

My name is Brian and I've been an x10 user since February 1988.

Yes, I'm happy with X10.  I trust it to turn my heating and cooling off and on.  I love my Icon remote.  Every light in the house is on X10.  The coffee maker is on x10.  My truck is warm in the morning thanks to X10.


Not enough people post the good things about X10, so here it is.

P.S.  I even sleep with the ICON in my hand, just ask my wife.

[Knightrider]

Also have 3 computers running version 3.236, two with all plug-ins and one with only smart macros. 

Still no problems.

[HA Dave]

My name is Brian and I've been an x10 user since February 1988..........  Not enough people post the good things about X10, so here it is.

Hi Brian... my name is Dave L and I also have an X10 addiction. I have been filling my home with X10 products since a small remodel back in 2003. My house talks to me... and listens too. I am a big fan of X10 products... and not ashamed to say that. I think X10 stuff is a lot like Geordi La Forge's visor. With a little modification... X10 can be made to do almost anything.

[bitman]

Earlier this week I picked up my ICON and the display was dark and would not wake up.
My past manual activation of stuff around me passed before my eyes.

I pulled one of the batteries out and put it back in. It came back to life.

That was a close one for sure.

[Dan Lawrence]

I'm also a Satisfied X10 User, and have been one since the middle 1980's.  I got a CP290 interface and DOS software at a now vanished Heath store on Joppa Road near Loch Raven Boulevard in Baynesville, a suburb of Baltimore.  A good friend of mine introduced me to the world of X10 and also sent me to Radio Shack to get my first lamp modules.   I started small, with 3 modules in the Living Room and one in the bedroom.  As the years passed, more light and appliance modules added and I discovered a local X10 dealer in Upper Carney, and a built-in module to control my kitchen's fluorescent light and modules to control my lamppost and porch light.  I now have SS13 "Socket Rocket"s controlling both lights in my attic and basement, plus wall switches both lamp and 3 way wall switches in the bedroom, kitchen and laundry room.

My X10 controllers have been a CP290, a serial interface and assorted DOS and Windows software, that was replaced by Active Home and the CM11A serial interface and now Active Home Pro and the CM15A USB interface.

My wife loves X10, we never come home to a dark house, lights come on at 6:15AM on weekdays for my wife (she's a teacher), and go off between 7:20 AM and 7:45AM when I leave.  Timers turn on inside and outside lights as dusk starts, they stay on until 1:00 AM.  A key press macro (A5 OFF) triggered by a keypress on a MC 460 Desktop controller that turns of lights on 3 different housecodes.

BTW, I don't have any of the plug-ins for AHP, don't need any of them.