What RF Receiver Do You Recommend

[Chuck]

George,

RFXcom appears to be in business as it posted some firmware updates on March 24th 2022. But the product is listed for sale but none in stock and is only for the 433mhz units which won’t work for the X10 stuff as that is 310mhz. I have contacted them in the past to see if they are still producing the interface and never heard back from them. I assume that they lost interest or the demand is not worth the effort.

As with all electronics it is time to upgrade. Look to Z-wave sensors which are not all that great but are an acceptable replacement. GE makes a nice dimmer/sensor (ZW3008) which works well for me and never needs batteries. 

There is also the option of using an X10 CM19a which is a USB MR26. I don’t know if Xtension supports it but it is a possible option. https://www.x10.com/collections/x10-interfaces/products/cm19a

If you want to prevent changing out your components then buy backups of everything. When X10 was going out of style there was a lot of it on sale for really cheap. I bought a lot of stuff and have plenty of backups to last till I am dead. Mostly I have sensors but I did pick up 2 MR26’s that have worked fine till I phased them out of my system. I also have two W800’s in both systems (my main home and my vacation home) in case one fails.

Chuck



> On Apr 29, 2022, at 4:34 AM, George Handley <ghandley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear XTensioneers,
> 
> Well my conversion to the M1 is about where is was 2 weeks ago, although I have got a lot of it back working usually by stumbling into the solution.
> 
> One critical XTension peripheral I can not get to work, and can’t seem to find any help to get it to work.
> 
> It’s the WGL W800 RF receiver. Worse still is not only is the company out of business, it's owner, inventor and good XTension List friend, Warren Rekow is nowhere to be found.
> 
> So, I must assume the W800 is an EOL product.
> 
> So I go to James XTension page and see that there are other brands of  RF to X10 via ethernet products like the W800, and I like the looks of the RFXe product, but the company, RFX Comm <http://www.rfxcom.com/>. is in Germany and james recommends using their American distributor , cheapertronics <http://www.cheapertronics.com/products.php?category_id=64> , is also out of business. I do a web search for it and found one company that talks about it but gives no pricing. Worse still it’s only a PC company... ie no Mac support
> 
> I was amazed that Amazon carries many, but not the RFX product line. For the Mac they push X10Pro receiver which is a toy compared, to the W800 of which I own four with special Radio Shack boosters James was nice enough to tell me about
> 
> So it’s time to ask you folks for what you have found and use as successful  RF to X10 (Via ethernet) product solutions.
> 
> Home to hear from somebody.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
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