Recent content by Fiasco

It costs considerably more to fish walls after the fact then it does to prewire.

My buddy had a bad experience with centralized lighting system.... There are so many things that could have been wrong from improper installation to poor choice of systems / bad design that have nothing do with a centralized topology. Some people have been burned buying a poorly constructed...

If your houses exposed framing I would go with a wired system like Homeworks 4. Dedicated communications (wired) is always preferred.

A few hundred? For the electrical contractor to do a automation prewire? Or for the EC to let some other unlicensed person do it on their permit and Insurance? Neither sounds likely.

Commandfusion supports damn near any device.

It really depends on your budget. Retrofit or New? Are you a hobbyist or do you want an entire solution? Lights, climate and shades? Lutron RadioRa2 and Lutron QS wireless shades. IPad/Iphone control? CommandFusion Local electronics control? GolbalCache type devices

Other systems are more reliable..... Any system that is not reliable is worse than a regular mechanical switch. Reliable systems exist that don't require special wiring.

Ra is very reliable. I have never had a service call on Lutron. Ra switches are > 50 You can go to the ra main repeaters web server and get your integration id's for automation

Lutron qs wireless?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaejslEb-fE My iPad ha remote in action

You need the power supply. I had the exact same issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaejslEb-fE Refined the XBMC interface and now have control over music, movies and tv shows.

Still in early development. Here is a partial demonstration of my CF remote operating radiora and XBMC media. On the xbmc side of things CD covers, DVD covers and background fan art are automatically scraped by xbmc from the Internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duxs7raKN0w

XBMC Media Prototyping in CF

I think herd hit on it pretty well. Lutron doesn't want their product dumped on the market without post sale support. Lutron is intent upon maintaining their position as the quality leader. You can buy it from a cut rate online retailer who gives no support whatsoever or you can buy it from...