opinions on GRAFIK Eye system by lutron

[C Hirsch]

Hi,

I am starting finnalize the building of my home, I am looking at
installing the lutron grafik eye system for lighting control. Can I
get some options on the system:

Does it work well.
Is there better products for the price.
What whole home control system does it work with. I was hoping to put
one pc on each floor that would have an application like meedio to
control all aspects of the home.

Thanks in advance.
Cliff

[RM]

I use a 3106 w/ my home theater and it works great. You have two options
for controlling it. Via IR or RS232. They are a bit pricey but very solid
in both performance and reliability. Watch E-bay or some of the Home
Theater classifieds to pick one up at less than retail.

Robert
"C Hirsch" <nothanks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am starting finnalize the building of my home, I am looking at
> installing the lutron grafik eye system for lighting control. Can I
> get some options on the system:
>
> Does it work well.
> Is there better products for the price.
> What whole home control system does it work with. I was hoping to put
> one pc on each floor that would have an application like meedio to
> control all aspects of the home.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Cliff

[C Hirsch]

Thanks,

I have just got the quote a bit high. What is the best quality
powerbased lighting control system out there ?. ( I mean x10 type
product ) Control over power lines.

I am leaning towards smarthome.. but I am in canada and don't feel
like paying taxes and freight any canadian companies with the same
product line.?

PnP

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:44:58 GMT, "RM" <trash@trash.com> wrote:

>I use a 3106 w/ my home theater and it works great. You have two options
>for controlling it. Via IR or RS232. They are a bit pricey but very solid
>in both performance and reliability. Watch E-bay or some of the Home
>Theater classifieds to pick one up at less than retail.
>
>Robert
>"C Hirsch" <nothanks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:rnfb21tt6gn50leiucqhcl954ngom7hnbv@4ax.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am starting finnalize the building of my home, I am looking at
>> installing the lutron grafik eye system for lighting control. Can I
>> get some options on the system:
>>
>> Does it work well.
>> Is there better products for the price.
>> What whole home control system does it work with. I was hoping to put
>> one pc on each floor that would have an application like meedio to
>> control all aspects of the home.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Cliff
>

[Charlie Derk]

Cliff -

If you are looking to do whole-home control, GRAFIK Eye is probably not
the best solution. I would look at RadioRA instead. GRAFIK Eye is
intended to be more of a room control, not whole-home. Although it will
work, functionality-wise, I think you'd be happier with RadioRA.

As far as purchasing it, there are tons of distributors in Canada that
carry it, so you shouldn't have any type of shipping or taxes to deal with

Charlie

C Hirsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am starting finnalize the building of my home, I am looking at
> installing the lutron grafik eye system for lighting control. Can I
> get some options on the system:
>
> Does it work well.
> Is there better products for the price.
> What whole home control system does it work with. I was hoping to put
> one pc on each floor that would have an application like meedio to
> control all aspects of the home.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Cliff

[RM]

Instead of X-10, have you considered the newer Z-wave products?

Robert
"C Hirsch" <nothanks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks,
>
> I have just got the quote a bit high. What is the best quality
> powerbased lighting control system out there ?. ( I mean x10 type
> product ) Control over power lines.
>
> I am leaning towards smarthome.. but I am in canada and don't feel
> like paying taxes and freight any canadian companies with the same
> product line.?
>
> PnP
>
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:44:58 GMT, "RM" <trash@trash.com> wrote:
>
> >I use a 3106 w/ my home theater and it works great. You have two options
> >for controlling it. Via IR or RS232. They are a bit pricey but very
solid
> >in both performance and reliability. Watch E-bay or some of the Home
> >Theater classifieds to pick one up at less than retail.
> >
> >Robert
> >"C Hirsch" <nothanks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:rnfb21tt6gn50leiucqhcl954ngom7hnbv@4ax.com...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am starting finnalize the building of my home, I am looking at
> >> installing the lutron grafik eye system for lighting control. Can I
> >> get some options on the system:
> >>
> >> Does it work well.
> >> Is there better products for the price.
> >> What whole home control system does it work with. I was hoping to put
> >> one pc on each floor that would have an application like meedio to
> >> control all aspects of the home.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> Cliff
> >
>