Lighting has to be one of the toughest and most time-consuming installations for even the most seasoned home systems professional. Systems have historically been very high end, requiring lots of low-voltage wiring, extensive programming, and endless customer callbacks to get the lighting levels just right. The sophisticated microprocessors and the labor, particularly on the programming end, add up to one very expensive system.
Most consumers use probably only a handful of scene buttons, lighting designers observe.
Those fancy functions you work so hard to design are, quite frankly, overkill for the average household. This powerhorse can handle almost three million watts of lighting, more than 2,000 loads, and arrange an unlimited number of scenes. That's definitely a more manageable set of specs for both an installer and a homeowner. Although some home systems installers may enjoy a programming challenge, the simple fact is most homeowners can't afford to pay you to do it, nor do they really need all the fancy bells and whistles you might be tempted to give them. Streamlining has consequently become the main order of business of many lighting control manufacturers these days.