Elan’s New g! Control System is ‘Biggest Product Introduction Ever’

Software launch on April 1?

That sounds like a great date - are they serious or is the whole thing an early April Fool?

Doh!

Elan Tools was promised 4 years ago and still never appeared, I doubt they’re making this April 1rst date!

This is huge.  I’m looking forward to it.

And ElanTools has been available for quite some time.  I’ve used it on several jobs.  As a matter of fact I just got my update this morning to use the DT22.

Thats exactly what I’ll be doing on New Years Eve… Logging into the site to check out Elan’s product release…

Kidding aside - If a product wont ship until late 2010 why bother hyping it in Jan ?  ANSWER: Dealers have been running from elan to other product lines due to lack of innovation for the past 5 years.. And I am speaking as one of these dealers (have been since the days of the HD system and the SquareD Smart House days..) 

(1) I truly hope the product becomes a real product and (2) actually works well

Steve B, not quite. You’ll be checking my story on cepro.com New Years Eve—a far more exciting event. Elan’s stuff won’t be live til New Year’s day!

Anyway, you certainly can’t knock the innovation on the HomeLogic side of things, and the new g line really builds on that.

Steve B,  I couldn’t agree with you more!  We’re in the exact same situation as you!  Sold Elan since the Square D days as well, but their lack of innovation has killed them and no changing the faceplates on their product does not count as innovation!  They’ve suckered CEPRO into hyping non existent product in order to keep dealers on the line in hopes that more dealers won’t jump ship in 2010,  I predict a December 2011 launch for this product!

As far as Elan Tools, why is it that Elan reps are telling their dealers not to use it?  We have it too, does it work? NO is it full of bugs YES…  If you’re still selling Elan as a control solution you’re missing the boat just like they are.

Is all of this new Elan product OEM’d from Crestron?

Elan’s lack of inovation, laughably terrible software, vaperware “sell in” practices, an an utter lack of organization over the last 5 years or more has got them where they are now, a disheveled company in disarray, pumping more vaporware that will be overprommised and underdelivered.

They need a new Executive staff to jump start a totally new way of thinking overthere.

Ohh, and let’s here the names of these “20 dealers” testing the new “system” out. They said the same thing about thier 5 year long ELANtools project, that seams to me was a huge waste of money. It’ll be abandoned before it’s even fully functional and bug free!

I would love to know the g! 20 list. Talk to them about how it really works. I remember the release of the SS1 and the fact that it caused two client’s systems to miss deadlines. Why? Because Elan promised us the proper functioning of the product by a date and it wasn’t until 2 weeks later when a patch was released that the systems came close to working.

I sincerely hope that this product release is not as painful because Elan dealers are losing respect in the integrator community. I know Nortek has come out of Chap 11 now but lord knows that if Elan doesn’t pull this one off Elan will be going down the tubes like all the other victims of the economic crisis.

I look forward to the new release but let’s hope it leans more on HomeLogic and less on Elan. Most of all let’s all hope it works!

Looks cool though. Horay new toys! Whether they’re bricks or they’re gems.

Julie, the inovation at Homelogic virtually ended when Elan bought them. Really. They are so internally conflicted on how to manage them, it has basically stopped them in thier tracks. Ask the dealers thier opinions before passing on the baseless hype from a PR person or sales manager. They’ve lost the trust in the marketplace, time after time.

I agree with “15 year dealer” above, they need a new Pres/CTO and EVP to lead them back.

Another die off for Crestron and Control4 to beat out of the business. Team up or don’t attempt this waste of TIME!

Personally, I’m checking out the new Nu-Tone line up of intercom systems for cutting edge whole house audio systems. From what I hear, you not only get the built in FM tuner, you can also install a Sony CD Walkman to play through the entire system.

Wait a minute I take that back… I just realized that the, “This Old House,” episode that demonstrated the new product line was originally broadcast in 1980. I knew Bob Villa & Norm were no longer working together… My bad.

I wanted to note something. On the 18th this was stated, “By the end of today, you can register on the g! teaser site gvangelist.com.” I have been watching the site and saw when the flash intro was finally put up and here we are today(19th)... still haven’t seen anywhere to register(Although we got some teaser screenshots).

This is so typical of Elan and doesn’t show well for a company thats losing dealers. I hope it isn’t an indication of things to come with the g! product. Elan I hope you’re watching all the comments and listening.

I still do not see a remote.  I don’t know about everyone else, but i do not like programming subsystems and then have to program a control system to talk to the subsystems.  I definitely do not like using a touch screen to channel surf.