Re: Control4 shipping Zigbee

["Brian" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting.

It's still out of my price range But I suppose some may say "afforable".

And I wonder if that is dealer or suggest retail?


I'm still a Zwave man.
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"C Hisch" <ihaveemail2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> The sales rep for Control4 was in Toronto last week, I unfortunately
> did not get the time to meet and see the products but I know that it
> is targeted to the average consumer not the high end.
> I don't have the exact pricing so don't hold me to this  but I was
> told that a dimmer is around the $100 mark.
> LCD control pannel $700
> ( Pricing is from word of mouth..not sure )
>
> I will try get more details from a friend that did meet with him. The
> developers used to work for Crestron..
>
> Hopefully Zigbee has finally reached the automation market
>
>
>
> On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:57:23 GMT, "Dean Roddey"
> <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Maybe I was making an incorrect assumption, but I was assuming that,
>>though
>>these devices are based on Zigbee at the low level 'on the wire' protocol
>>level, that they are not designed to be interoperable with generic Zigbee
>>devices, right? Given the proprietary nature of their system, it just
>>seemed
>>likely to me that they wouldn't be interested in doing otherwise, since
>>folks could then just buy generic Zigbee based versions of switches and
>>other things, instead of buying Control4 products (where there is
>>overlap),
>>and Control4 installers would have to deal with all the possible issues of
>>generic Zigbee devices being introduced into the Control4 system.
>>
>>Am I incorrect in that assumption?
>>
>>-------------------------------------
>>Dean Roddey
>>Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
>>www.charmedquark.com
>>
>>"wkearney99" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:X7KdnVR2ldLTzB7fRVn-2Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> WHERE'S THE PRICING INFO?
>>>
>>> "Brian" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:fMuge.784$sb5.126@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> http://www.control4.com/company/press/2005-4-29-shipping.htm
>>>
>>
>