Recent content by zenix

Standard plates will work. Everyone says that Lutron screwless plates are nicer.

Since you are starting from scratch, you should take a look at the Lutron systems as well. RadioRA 2 can do most of what you want, or for less money you could have DIY level system with Caseta and HomeKit.   http://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Components.aspx...

Yes, it is possible to get that software. It would cost you $900 and 3 days. See   http://www.lutron.com/en-US/Education-Training/Pages/LCI/AboutLCI/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseID=173998

  The light kit on this fan can be trivially removed, so I wouldn't factor this into my decision. Besides, light kits on fans are for show - none of them can light a room anyway! ;-)     Speaking of Casablanca DC motors, I just did a bit of maintenance on one DC fan. It has 6 speeds, and the...

Dimmable LED tape lights on magnetic dimmer work just fine with 6NA. And since LED tape is cut-to-size, you can make lamps as short or as long as needed.

You can always try replacing one bulb with incandescent and see if that helps. Not sure what you mean about neutral wire, I thought CL dimmers do not have neutral wire terminal.

Taps work reliably here. But I have 80s construction (wood and drywall). One thing which was a bit of a disappointment is how slow bridge is to report bulb status. There is a 1-2 second delay between tapping on a Tap and seeing light state correctly reflected in Hue API. Sigh...

  Oops, sorry, you can't actually program anything without main repeater. So you can get a few dimmers first and set those up, but you can not program them. Then you can get a main repeater and program it without using PC software. It's called "walk around programming", meaning you walk around a...

  You can even start out without main repeater and add one later on.

  Agree in general, but I would not count Caseta by itself as "sophisticated". It is solid, easy to setup, but not complicated.   However, release of HomeKit compatible hub - which is available now, so no need to wait till September - and announced improvemets to HomeKit change things a lot, so...

  There aren't many of those. It is easier to swap out your power supplies with dimmable power supplies (either magnetic kind, or electronic kind) - dimmable power supply can be connected on 110V side to any network controlled dimmer. This way you are not tied to anything, you can use absolutely...

  There are tons of those. Lutron Caseta, Insteon, Lutron RadioRA 2, and many many more.

  RA2 dimmers are usually under $120. $150 would be MSRP.

  Keep in mind, both Lux and Link are "yellow-only" bulbs, these bulbs come only in yellow color (2700K or so).

  They work with Hue hub too. Unfortunately, they both have this horrible yellow tint. For some reason they also do not dim as well as dumb bulbs. What's up with that?