Well if they are going to introduce an entry level system at these price points it makes perfect sense to not make it compatible with other gear. They will have $100 retail dimmers. Why would you sell the better gear if you could sell this instead? Also the processors will have built in gateways and again retail for $700-$800.

I am not too certain they will open up dealers who only want to sell this level of product, I believe that they are just giving dealers another option for those who have been exposed to products like Control 4 and Home Logic.

There will also be very limited, if any custumization of the ui and all of the program modules will be pre written ala RTI or Elan.