Insteon is a technology from SmartHome. This powerline carrier technology enables excellent communications between devices, keypads, and a home automation system.
During the development of HCA we concentrated on Insteon. Our goal was to provide you with a set of tools to best deploy and manage an Insteon network. Insteon is supported by these features:
HCA supports the complete line of Insteon products from SmartHome and others. This includes the thermostat adapter and the multi-channel device types.
But while all this is great stuff, it's the bigger picture that is important. HCA supports multiple automation interfaces simultaneously. This means that with HCA you can bridge between the Insteon, UPB, wireless, and X10 worlds. All you need to do is attach a wireless interface, an X10 interface, and a UPB interface and HCA can receive and transmit to each type of device and provide the bridge you need.
Do you need to use motion sensors to control Insteon devices? No problem! HCA can receive wireless motion sensor transmissions (using the W800RF32) and then transmit commands to the Insteon devices using the PowerLinc.
Do you have some X10 devices, some Insteon devices, and some UPB devices? HCA can receive commands from Insteon keypads and run programs to send commands to X10 and UPB devices. HCA can receive X10 commands and transmit Insteon commands. HCA could have programs and groups that manipulate all of these device types.
Using HCA, a fully functional automation solution can be built from those components that you need - choosing the best parts from all the automation worlds.
HCA can use the PowerLinc to send and receive both Insteon and X10 commands. X10 support is, however, not as good in some areas as other X10 interfaces. What's not as good? Two things: Dimming for the oldest type of X10 devices - LM465 - and those devices that use extended command sequences - the LM14, AM14, and some Leviton devices. If you have many of these devices and you also want to use Insteon you may want to consider using the 2414U for Insteon and a CM11 or LynX-10PLC for X10 commands.
HCA doesn't support downloading of schedules and programs to the PowerLinc memory.
Insteon support is in Standard and Plus flavors of HCA.
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