Insteon Acquired

Interesting news on the Insteon front.

Insteon, SmartLabs Acquired; New CEO Wants to Make Powerline Great Again for Home Automation - Richmond Capital acquires SmartLabs, owner of Insteon mesh-networking home-automation technology, and Smarthome, leading home-technology retailer; plans serious investment in IoT hardware and software.

This makes me hopeful. I feel their product line has stagnated. My home is based 90% on insteon and there are features that an 8 button controller should do....that have yet to be done. Also the battery situation with insteon products is seriously lacking.

Maybe now they will start treating Indigo with more respect. Or they could decide to write a real software package to compete.

Is this good news, or bad news for us?

I think that this has the potential to be a good thing for Indigo. Rising tide lifts all boats. Getting more people interested and comfortable with DIY could lead to stronger support in the industry. New. better and (hopefully) cheaper hardware, and so on. Also, if Insteon is going for the "so simple that everyone can do it" segment, it could lead to more people taking a look at Indigo (who don't want to have something that's very simple).

[jay (support)]

Is this good news, or bad news for us?

IMO, it's not likely to be bad news. The mention of API development in the article seems somewhat positive. Hopefully it will mean fixing some of the underlying problems that the protocol has.

Also, if it leads to more Insteon devices (hopefully by more vendors) then that would be good news. If it means a USB-interface available for other regions worldwide that would also be good news (at least for customers in those areas).

I fear their EU efforts will be too little too late.. they had their chance before z-wave started getting big but blew it. I don’t know anyone who’s bought their stuff here.


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