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No thanks, I'll stick to my HTM MX-650's. ]]>Dec 5th 2006 2:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/05/engadget-hd-review-monster-central-control-system-avl-300/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/05/engadget-hd-review-monster-central-control-system-avl-300/
Well, actually the Harmony does do lighting!!

I have a LUTRON IR lighting control switch in my living room that I control through my Harmony 880 via IR. This works great!! I just replaced the unit in the wall, 10 minutes later I was done. You can buy them at Home Depot, but I ordered mine through a local lighting store, because I wanted a different color.
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Our AV100 and AVL300 remotes have the IR codeset for the LUTRON ir dimmers and switches as well. Our IlluminEssence lighting line communicates with the AVL300 via RF, so you don't need to be within line of site to talk to a switch. The real advantage here is that without pulling ANY new wires, you can talk to 200+ lights in your home. A good example is how I use this feature in my house. I created a scene called "goodnight" which turns off about 10 lights, dims my daughters table lamp to 10% (shes only 4 months old) and turns on this little "fish tank" toy my wife bought her that is attached to her crib. I can then turn it off from our bedroom after she falls asleep. Now if we could only make any IlluminEessence product that will wake up at 2 and 4 am every night to feed her......... ;) ]]>Dec 5th 2006 7:20PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/05/engadget-hd-review-monster-central-control-system-avl-300/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/05/engadget-hd-review-monster-central-control-system-avl-300/Dec 6th 2006 10:18AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/05/engadget-hd-review-monster-central-control-system-avl-300/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/12/05/engadget-hd-review-monster-central-control-system-avl-300/
Funny you should ask about the trigger option. In the future, other CE manufacturers will hopefully incorporate z-wave chipsets natively into their devices so we could (for example) talk to a sony DVD player through the RF z-wave without the need for translation devices.

I do know of a company called Boca Devices (http://www.bocadevices.com) and they make a z-wave 8 port relay for things like projectors and screens called the "Relay-Z".]]>Dec 6th 2006 12:35PM