Konrad

Thank you for your advice. I do think I will be able to live with a small delay in lights turning on/off by using Insteon keypads. I will look into the Homeseer switches as was suggested which may have better instant status. I may end up switching the Insteon keypads for z-wave ones in the future when they become available but might be happy enough with the short delay of the Insteon. It would be cheaper to use the Insteon din-rail dimmer switches but my electrician is really pushing z-wave switches over Insteon ones and it seems most people here are moving to z-wave when starting new systems. Seems like my electrician might just have to settle for me using the Insteon keypads . I can’t see any one protocol being that much better than the other. This will likely all be easier in a few years when the competition figures all this out (who will end up being blue ray and who will be HD-dvd: and all end up being nearly obsolete by Netflix later anyway). At least with devices like ISY both Insteon and z-wave will likely be able to work with whatever new protocol system that comes out. Once again, thanks for your input: it’s reassuring to know this will work (but will have short response delay and the PLM will fail in two years:). Once this system gets up and going I am sure I will have lots of questions on how to make this thing work properly. Home possession is still 5 months away.

Hello, I am in the process of building a new home and looking for a system that will work for what I would like. I don't know to much about this sort of thing so any help would be great. I think the ISY with z-wave will work but don't want to install it to later figure out I was wrong. I am looking to using Insteon 8 button keypads in all major rooms (kitchen, dinning, living, stair way, foyer, master bedroom, master bath...about 10-11 keypads in total in the house) Most major rooms will have 3-8 independent light switches (kitchen has 6 separate lighting loads). So far planning for z-wave plus Leviton switches (DZ6HD-1BZ) on my electricians recommendation. 90% of these switches will be located in a remote location (about 35-40 switches in total). My plan is to use the Insteon 8 button keypads to control the Leviton z-wave switches via the ISY. Many of these will be controlled in a 4-way fashion (same kitchen light can turn controlled from foyer, dinning, living, and kitchen as an example). So far I am not planning on doing scenes which is why I need a keypad with lots of buttons. My electrician is concerned that this system will not work, but from what I have read on these forums it seems like it should. Ideally I would be using z-wave keypads but none have 8 buttons (Cooper makes a 5 button that my electrician does not want to use). Any thoughts on whether such as system with Insteon 8 button talking to ISY and ISY talking to leviton switches will work (and leviton reporting status back to Inteon keypads)? Thanks, Konrad