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I'm building a new home. It will have a technology closet behind the entertainment center. This room will be the head-end for all of the low voltage in the house. The HAI system will be in there. I'm putting 2 20am circuits into the room. Should I have the A/V equipment (DVD, TV...

Which product do you prefer and why - ECS or Homeseer? RedDirt

I'm installing my first HAI system. I'd like to have door locks on the outside doors that can be monitored and possibly locked/unlocked from the system. Does anyone know of such locks? Thanks, RedDirt

I'm building a new house. I've designed a technology closet (head-end) right behind my entertainment center. All my low voltage system will head-end in this room. I'll be doing Home Automation, Distributed Audio, Home Netorking, Home Theater, etc. Any ideas on how much electric power I...

When is HomeSeer v2 coming? What are the major changes? Thanks, RedDirt

I'm just getting started as a electronic home systems integrator. Is anyone using Motorola's Premise software? Thanks, RedDirt

Has anyone tried the CasaWorks Cielo system? Thanks, RedDirt

Dean, Would you suggest ALC for a new home? Are you counting powerline/UPB as wired? RedDirt

Support for Lutron RadioRA Lighting Control is now available in HAI controllers. I wonder why they chose Lurtron RadioRA instead of Z-wave? I'm about to build a new house and I'm going to use HomeSeer and HAI Omni. But, I'm having trouble deciding on the control protocol: Powerline - UPB...

BraveSirRobbin, I appologize, I should have stated that this is not a PLAN. I'm trying to diagram what is possible. I'm looking at the plugins from each software to see what they support and then connect them. I am planning to use MainLobby, HomeSeer and HAI Omni in a new home. RedDirt

Please look at the attached drawing. Am I even close to right? Thanks, RedDirt

When will HS 2.20 come out? RedDirt

For a new home, I'm trying to decide if I should go ALC, Z-wave or UPB. A quick looks shows that Z-wave wall switches are much less expensive than UPB. Why is that? RedDirt

I read the HAI announcement about wireless control protocol. But, I didn't see which one they decided on - are they going to support Z-Wave? RedDirt