[quote=“michaelk, post:6, topic:165089”]is the expected behavior for x-10 devices NOT to show if they are on or off in the dashboard of UI2?
is this corrected in UI3?[/quote]
I personally wouldn’t say it’s expected behavior. Though, this is the current situation.
As far as I can tell, MCV has put everything X10 on the back burner. This really is a disappointment to me because one of the major reasons I bought Vera was to manage my existing X10 system. Personally, I just can’t replace my existing X10 system for newer Zwave products for two major reasons. First of all it would cost about $6k in switches and controllers. Second, there are not Zwave devices (yet) that could replace some of my X10 equipment. For example, 8 button and 6 button scene controllers. Also, IR (infrared) receiver that would execute zwave scenes. Let me give two examples of how important these features are:
Example #1.
I have an extensive theater setup in my home. TV, amplifier, Wii, Playstation, DirectTV-DVR, 63inch Samsung, AppleTV, and lighting. From a single press of my Universal Remote (home theater master), the movie button, the amplifier is set to multichannel (high end audio, like Dolby HD), my PS3 is turned on (my blueray player), my TV is set to the correct HDMI port, my lighting behind the TV is set to 12%, lighting behind my seating is set to 12%. The lighting changes are made up of 6 light switches that dim at the same time.
Example #2.
I have several 8 button scene controllers in my house. Each room of my house is set to a button. Whenever a light is turned on in the house (from manual press on the actual light switch, from a scene that turned it on, etc etc), the 8 button scene controller will light up for that room. So it’s really easy when I go to bed to know which rooms have lights on, and I can turn off any room I want from one of these buttons. I also have one of the 8 button controllers at the front door and side door of my house. Again, I can turn on/off any room light in the house. I can easily see if a light is on in a room because the button is lit.
Hopefully my examples above help echo the importance of these features. Please MCV give us two-way X10 support. Also, we need scene control in the manner described above. Lastly, we need IR received by vera to trigger scenes.
P.S. For those people who say X10 is unreliable, this is not true for everyone. My system is 100% Litolier PLC firewall controlled. This means that every light switch is wired into a PLC-Firewall. A PLC-Firewall mounts next to your circuit breaker panel and looks like another circuit breaker panel. The electrician moves all circuits that are X10 into the firewall. The firewall cleans the lines and prevents all kinds of issues. I think in the last 7 years my X10 system has worked flawless except for maybe 3 times. That’s right, only 3 times it did something different then expected. I completely attribute this to the PLC-Firewall I have installed.