European Custom Installer

Leviton announces a professionally-installed smart lighting control solution-- the Decora Smart wifi 4-button controller (part no. DW4BC), a multi-button wall station for the control of light fixtures and overhead ceiling fans.

The controller features 4 individual buttons installers can easily program for specific customer needs via My Leviton app. The buttons are compatible with the Leviton Decora Smart line of dimmers, switches and plug-in outlets for easy integration and control. The commands can control a single Decora Smart wifi device, such as having the top button turn on the overhead lights and an overhead fan in a badroom, while the bottom button turns them off.

Installers can also use the button commands to create room scenes such as "Movie Time" and whole-home activities such as "Go to Bed." Each of the four buttons features a vanishing feedback LED to provide visual indication when a button is pressed. A unique LED mode causes the LED to glow, allowing homeowners to see the buttons when the room is dar, and the LEDs can be switched off in the case of light-sensitive areas.

Invision launches the DoorBird IP Video Door Station D1101V-- the smallest model in the DoorBird series, being compact, wifi-enabled and an ideal solution for single-family homes.

Installers can either surface- or flush-mount the unit, with two angle adaptors allowing mounting in either vertical or horizontal orientation. The adaptors can also improve angle and motion recognition in case of difficult installation conditions. The device can be used either as a standalone unit or integrated with a number of smart home platforms, including Control4, Loxone and Crestron.

Chord Company promises a solution to poor signal transfer with the ChordOhmic Transmission Fluid, an advanced polymer solution designed to maximise the surface area of a variety of plug connections.

The result of four years of development by Japanese industrial chemist and distributor Andante Largo, the ChordOhmic fluid deploys polymers to fill pits and imperfections on the surfaces of connections. The result is a greater contact area, therefore improving the performance of the connection. The lower the resistance, the higher the current/signal.

The Netgear M4300 series switches receiver official Crestron certification for DM NVX AV-over-IP solutions, meaning the switches work out of the box with Crestron DM NVX encoders and decoders.

According to the company, most other network switches on the Crestron Certified list require a configuration file to function properly. This is not the case with the M4300 switches, since they ship preconfigured and require no further setup to work with Crestron hardware.

If you are looking for something different to sell, we found this product tucked away in Hall 14 at ISE 2020.

KinoServer’s KinoKube was born in Italy from the desire to create a Roon server with top performance.

“To achieve this, our philosophy has been to optimize the project both from the hardware and the software point of view. Using a fanless configuration was a good starting point, but we wanted to go beyond,” says Kinoserver’s Francesco Maglione.

“Going beyond” in this case meant first solving the issue of heat: from the delidding intervention on the CPU, to replacing the normal thermal paste with a liquid metal fluid to lower CPU temperature by 20 degrees, to creating a huge aluminum heat sink with the case itself.