Re: best deal on lutron radio ra?

["wkearney99" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Given how well my previous attempt to help was taken, I hate to even
> contribute anything else...

Everyone has a bad day... on both sides of a conversation.

> But, from having done a driver for RA, my
> understanding is that it supports 32 units (dimmers or switches), and you
> can bridge two systems together for 64. That's just going by what I
remember
> from having done the driver, and maybe there are other issues involved.
But
> 64 units is probably enough for a pretty large house.

Even 32 isn't all that much of a restriction when handling just lighting.
Going further into automating outlets and appliances could certainly be a
problem.

Given how hideously expensive the Radio RA stuff is I'm still willing to
consider other solutions.  I've found the switch feel and operation on all
X-10 based stuff to be unacceptable.  The current z-wave stuff isn't much
better (perhaps "less worse?").  Does anyone else make the same sort of wall
scene controllers and self-programmable dimmers that a Radio RA system
provides?  Wired or wireless but without doing home-run rewiring.

It's the combination of flexible wall-mounted scene controllers, good switch
feel and self-programmable dimmer levels that make it appealing.  Being able
to adjust the dimmer level right on the faceplate without having to jump
through programming hoops is a nice feature.  Being able to control several
dimmers together on a wall-mounted scene controller is likewise important.
Who else's scene controllers are similarly flexible?

-Bill Kearney