CEDIA 2010 may be the most important event in Elan’s 20-year history. For the first time, the company will reveal its complete line of
Elan G home-control systems, including the brand new HR2 handheld remote.
The remote is a first for
Elan Home Systems, which has always wanted to offer one, but never managed to do it.
“Every time we started looking at a remote control over the years, we were close, but then someone came out with something cheaper and fancier,” says chief technology officer Bob Farinelli. “We thought, maybe it it’s not our space. And maybe that was our mistake. Now remote control companies are coming into our space.”
The HR2 is a two-way Wi-Fi (802.11g) remote with IR control as well. A 2.4-inch OLED screen provides feedback from security, lighting and climate controls, plus metadata from supported A/V devices. It is expected to retail for
$680 $760 (sans controller).
Like the rest of the products in the new Elan G line, which Elan president Paul Starkey calls "
the biggest product introduction ever," the remote is programmed using Elan’s Configurator software. The user interface mimics that of the other G displays including touchscreens, OLED touchpads and iPhone/iPad apps.
Uniformity across all interfaces is a cornerstone of the G platform, which blends the best of Elan and HomeLogic, the little company
acquired by Elan in 2007.
“We’ve worked very hard together to deliver the best-in-class from the two companies,” says Farinelli. “The new products going forward takes their good IP technology and our experience in control – especially IR control – and creates a very elegant solution that is competitive.”
[Details after the jump]
Elan G HR2 Handheld Remote Specs
DescriptionThe hardware features a new instant-on WiFi chip, providing ten hours of continuous screen-on use or 14 days of standby. he unit is balanced for a comfortable fit in the hand with immediate deep system access with a few fingertaps on the 2.4-inch touch screen or through the 45 strategically positioned buttons. The HR2 will include a serial rollout of Elan’s vast library of two-way drivers that now run on other g! interfaces over the first months of the product release, offering fast and easy dealer programming and easy user access to virtually every controllable device in the home. Finally, the HR2 charging base sports a sleek, modern design in keeping with g! so the unit can be picked up easily with one hand while occupying the minimum amount of coffee table real estate.
Suggested Retail Price$760, includes HR2 remote, removable lithium polymer battery, charger (Controller required)
Notable Features
- All the speed, response & graphics of a touch screen
- All the ease-of-use, simplicity-of-programming & affordability of a remote control
- 45 backlit Hard buttons.
- 2.4” OLED display
- Noise-less accelerometer for activating LCD or backlight
- 802.11g communication provides robust metadata feedback
- IR blaster for line-of-sight control
- Quick & easy programming using the Elan Configurator
- Compatible with all g! System Controllers
- Ships standard with battery and charging base.
- Controls all AV sources with metadata feedback for supported devices
- Controls security, lighting, and climate with metadata feedback
What Makes Product UniqueHR2 Remote extends the unified and intuitive g! interface across the entire spectrum of user controls with the remote specifically built to support the g! interface. With an easy-to-use 2.4" touch screen, and 45 uniquely positioned buttons, the remote is easy for dealers to program with almost zero overhead supporting its use. The remote uses the latest generation instant-on WiFi so power is only used with a button press providing ten hours of continuous screen-on use or fourteen hours on standby. With the huge MetaData library g! provides dealers, the HR2 has over ten times the number of two-way drivers its closest competitor provides.
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