My previous house was running on mostly X-10. It was working well - as well as could be expected for an X-10 installation, anyway. We had remote controlled outlets, switches, a bunch of little PIR motion detectors, some of which had been hacked to sense door opening / closing. There's even a module to close the garage door in case it had been left open. A CM-11A provides timer functions, and a Linux host running heyu provides a very rudimentary network interface to the system.
Then I moved.
The "new" house has much older wiring, and preliminary experiments with plug-in modules didn't prove very encouraging. Time to look for an alternative. Choosing between Zigbee and Z-Wave, I noticed that Leviton has products for Z-Wave, but not ZigBee. I had good experience with Leviton switches in the past. I hope I picked the right platform.
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