On July 29, 2017 at 22:07, Impaqt said...
Did Vnet actually have their own lighting hardware?
They did. It was a weird hybrid of centralized panels and localized lighting. In way was really smart. Instead of having big panels that each did something like 32 loads, they had small one or two dimmer module sized cans that did maybe 8 loads. The idea was locate these in places like walk in closets or other areas around the house to save on wiring. Then I believe all the localized panels connected to the network. Keypads ran on cat. Don't remember if they were POE or went to some sort of proprietary hub.
We met with the rep once and got the pitch. Some features were ahead of other products on the market, but it all had this half asssed unfinished feel. One thing I remember that was interesting was their audio was sort of an improved abus system. Their touch panels had amplifiers in them. But they did require having some real power source (not cat 5) to run them. The idea was, wire every room for speakers and touch screen. Want audio in a room, buy a touch screen. Don't want it in a room right now, buy nothing.