Lighting Control

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5 Reasons Why You Should Treat Yourself to New Lighting

From swapping out builder-grade flush mounts to enhancing curb appeal with new outdoor lighting: explore why it’s the perfect time to upgrade your home’s lighting.

As we get into the full swing of the holiday season and the New Year approaches, those who find themselves in charge of hosting may want to use this time to tackle a few home projects before guests roll arrive. Upgrading overhead lighting in key rooms such as the dining room, guest bathroom, and entryway, can transform your space and elevate the overall holiday experience. Here are 5 reasons why now might be the right time to treat your home (and yourself) to new lighting.

Products

Enhance Control and Expand Connectivity of your Lutron Caséta Devices with the Smart Hub

Lutron’s DIY Caséta line has come a long way since launching in 2014 with a just singular in-wall dimmer and a plug-in lamp dimmer. Caséta was the first smart lighting product to make professional-level lighting control available to anyone with a screwdriver. Now, with a wide range of smart dimmers, switches, and plugs for indoors and out, Caséta offers a complete smart lighting control system that is also easy to use. It’s pretty easy to install and works reliably, and its many integrations with other products will completely change the way you view lighting. But what is the Caséta Smart Hub and how do you know when you need one? Read on to learn the features of the different Caséta Smart Hubs and when you would want to add one to your system.

Brands

Introducing Lumaris by Lutron: Tape Light for the Modern Home

This month, Lutron introduced Lumaris—a professional-grade, tunable white LED tape light purpose-built for adding accent and highlight lighting to your RadioRA 3 system. Lumaris is the first-ever LED tape light designed to be part of a Lutron connected lighting control system. Built on the ultra-reliable Lutron Clear Connect-Type X wireless technology, the Lumaris tunable white tape light is a native component within the Lutron platform including controls, apps, programming software, and the Lutron Connect cloud services. An easier way to do tunable white tape light, Lumaris delivers rock-solid reliability and precision performance—perfect for under cabinet, stairs and shelving, mirror edge, and toe kick applications. Keep reading to learn more about this exciting product launch.

Brands

Lutron Adds New Pico Paddle Remote to its Caséta Lineup

Offering homeowners more flexibility in smart device control, Lutron introduces the new Pico Paddle Wireless Control – now available to order at PROLIGHTING. The Pico Paddle may look like your average paddle switch, but it’s anything but. The Pico Paddle gives you easy on / off wireless control of your Caséta smart switches, Serena smart shades, fans, SONOS speakers, and more. Adjust lights, shades, or audio from anywhere in a space with a Pico Paddle wireless control. Add a second “switch” anywhere you need it without cutting holes or pulling wire. With the Pico Paddle remote, you can match your Diva smart dimmer, Claro smart switch, and other paddle-style controls to create a consistent aesthetic.

Brands

Create Ambiance and Save Energy with Lutron Whole-Home Light Control

As a leader in the fast-growing smart home market, Lutron provides the perfect solution for any size home and any budget—whether you’re building a new home or want to upgrade your existing one. Lutron works with more smart home devices than any other smart lighting control brand. With over 1,000 dimmable bulbs, regular bulbs can now be made smart, starting with control at the switch. We’ve summarized Lutron’s top three systems, available to order at PROLIGHTING to assist you in deciding. Keep reading to find which whole-home smart solution is right for you.

Brands

Color Tuning is Made Simple with RAB’s Newest Lightcloud™ Blue

New this month at PROLIGHTING—meet RAB’s latest Lightcloud™ Blue A19 and BR30 lamps with color tuning. Choose from over 16 million dimmable colors including tunable whites between 2200K and 6500K. And the best part? These new RGB lamps use RAB’s Lightcloud™ Blue mobile app to instantly connect to your lamps in minutes via Bluetooth Mesh, without the need for a Gateway or Hub. RAB’s Lightcloud™ Blue is a powerful, flexible, simple lighting control system designed to manage lighting wirelessly. It’s easy as downloading the Lightcloud™ Blue mobile app, connecting your enabled products, and quickly configuring them.

Brands

Legrand’s Smart Lighting with Netatmo Lets You Control Lights and Power

Now available at PROLIGHTING: Legrand’s Smart Lighting with Netatmo—the smartest way to take control of lights and power, optimized for an ultra-reliable whole home experience. Delivering the comfort, safety and convenience of Smart Lighting with unprecedented range and reliability, Legrand with Netatmo products are the perfect whole home solutions for smarter control.

Lighting Applications

Smart Lighting for a Smart Home

Smart lighting can reduce energy, increase comfortability, and improve safety. Smart lights are beneficial in both residential and commercial applications.