Essential Install | Home Automation Apps
The RTiPanel
app controls
all connected
electronic systems
via the RTI control
system
With Total Control
2.0 installers can
personalise their
URC system
The RTiPanel app provides homeowners with
complete control over all of the connected electronic
systems via the RTI control system. Allowing users to
utilise their smartphones, tablets, and PC’s virtually
anywhere in the world ensures their lighting, security, AV,
and climate systems are never out of reach. Providing the
convenience that consumers crave, complete integration
with the complete line of RTI control handheld and in-wall
controllers provides an intuitive, consistent interface
across all of the devices. The RTiPanel has a completely
customisable interface, allowing the control experience
to be made specifically for each homeowner’s needs and
tastes. For ease of use, the app can display in both portrait
and landscape views by simply rotating the mobile device,
and features fast connection speeds for quick access.
Through its Integration Partner Program, RTI offers
two-way driver integration with electronic systems across
the spectrum, allowing users to easily operate even the
most sophisticated home systems using the RTiPanel
app, while giving integrators everything they need
to efficiently integrate any electronic device into one
powerful ecosystem.
The company has compiled a large library of two-way
drivers of today’s most popular devices. These include
thermostats from Aprilaire, ecobee, and Nest; Bose and
Sonos audio solutions; Sony, LG and Sharp video displays;
Yamaha and Marantz AV receivers; Lutron lighting control
systems; Kwikset door locks; DoorBird doorbell systems
and GE security systems.
The RTiPanel app provides simple configuration
and complete customisation through RTI’s Integration
Designer APEX software, enabling integrators to provide
their clients with a consistent user interface experience
across all of their control devices — eliminating the need to
learn how to use another controller — or a unique interface
designed to set their device apart. The backbone of RTI’s
control and automation solutions, Integration Designer
APEX, saves integrators valuable time with features such
as automatic generation of the graphical user interface,
multi-room programming and advanced graphic resizing.
AWE throws its home automation system into the
ring with the launch of Total Control 2.0 from URC. “Total
Control 2.0 is a dramatic step forward in controls, the
biggest and most substantial platform upgrade since its
launch,” says Mal Fisher, chief technical officer at AWE. “It
brings much greater flexibility, a more attractive aesthetic
and faster, higher performance operation to create a
significantly better user experience. Combined with its
series of recent hardware innovations, this comprehensive
software update puts URC streets ahead of the controls
competition.”
Featuring a full graphical update, a new user interface
and advanced logic, Total Control 2.0 enables installers to
put homeowners in charge of their home with a seamless,
intuitive and versatile solution.
With Total Control 2.0, installers can personalise their
URC system using a fully customisable colour scheme.
They can also add attractive images to help define scene
and background settings. Either single devices or scenes
can take preference on the interface to meet the individual
needs of homeowners. Up to 100 scenes can be pre-
programmed for immediate access to a specific command.
Total Control 2.0 also boasts much faster speeds for
both installers and end users, with downloading to the
system, loading new programming and response time all
vastly improved. Installers can also make adjustments and
edits much more quickly and simply, and pollinate across
different control devices in the house with ease.
As well as substantial end user benefits, URC is directly
increasing the opportunities for installers with Accelerator
2.0, its new software development platform. Featuring
advanced logic, very specific and complex statements can
be programmed. By incorporating ‘if’, ‘and’, ‘then’ and ‘or’
commands, the system becomes more in tune with the life
of the homeowner. In-built scheduling for commands on
a specific time or date increases the level of autonomous
directives completed by the system.
Stuart Tickle, managing director of AWE adds, “The
team at URC have done a great job – I love it and am sure
installers and consumers will too. Total Control 2.0 is the
single, most substantial update to any product range I
can recall.”
More Information:
Ivory Egg 01243 572 700, ivoryegg.co.uk
Crestron 0845 873 8787, crestron.eu
Orbitsound 0207 294 7332, orbitsound.com
Habitech 01256 638 500, habitech.co.uk
Control4 01347 812 300, control4.com
RTI +1 952 253 3100, rticorp.com
AWE 01372 729 995, awe-europe.com
58 | October 2017