If you've been working with home automation for a while now you'll note that it's a bit of work to put a gas fireplace on your home network.  It's not rocket surgery, but it requires a bit of cable running and there's always the fixed state switch vs home automation state issue (see the remote control fireplace article for more details).

Essentially, nobody in the DIY home automation space had come up with an in-wall switch to deal with low-voltage triggers until now.  Control4 - which makes products based on the Zigbee protocol - released the C4-FS1-Z which provides the functionality of a dry-contact switch with an in-wall switch form factor.  

Here are the specs:

350 m/W power consumption
ZigBee Pro capabilities
120 VAC
Available in White, Light Almond, Almond, Ivory, Brown and Black
System Requirements: Control4® software release 1.8 is required to use this new product. These new models require ZigBee Pro, and cannot be used with software release 1.7.x or earlier software versions.

Let's hope that the other manufacturers (SmartLabs, Leviton et al) take notice and catch up to Control4 on this one!

Via: Control4

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