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Panelized circuits, wireless devices or both; every keypad family Lutron makes; shades and intelligent light on the same processor — Lutron’s flagship, best specified at design stage and built once, right.
HomeWorks is what Lutron builds for the homes where lighting is part of the architecture: loads dimmed from central panels or from wireless devices in the wall, keypads as jewelry rather than switch banks, shades and full-spectrum light native to the same processor. Lutron’s own words are “retrofit or new construction, wireless or wired.” The panelized version is the design-stage decision; the wireless side can follow a finished home.
This is the architectural option HomeWorks adds. In a switch-based system, the dimmer lives in the wall box and controls whatever is wired past it. In a panelized HomeWorks design, circuits return to DIN-rail panels in a closet and the wall carries only a keypad. The same processor also runs wireless Sunnata and Maestro devices in the wall and Lutron’s wireless fixtures, so a home can be panelized, wireless, or both.
| Processor | HomeWorks QSX — wired processors with one or two links, plus a wireless processor with Clear Connect Type A and Type X radios |
|---|---|
| Scale | Up to 16 processors and gateways, 10,000 zones and roughly 50,000 sq ft; a wired link carries 512 switch legs |
| Panels | DIN-rail modules; legacy RPM panels connect through Lutron’s panel-link translator rather than being replaced |
| Load types | Phase-adaptive (forward and reverse), 0–10 V, DALI, HomeWorks Digital, DMX, motor loads and switched circuits |
| Runs locally | Yes — the processor holds all logic on site |
| Wiring | Home run per circuit — specified at rough-in, which is why this is a design-stage choice |
On a HomeWorks project the keypad is an interior-design decision. Three families, each a different design language, all driving the identical system underneath — so the choice is purely about how the wall should look and how the button should feel.
The system underneath is identical. What changes is what the wall looks like — and what the button does under your finger.
Architectural · metal, glass or matte polymer
A flat plate with flush squared buttons, sitting almost level with the wall — the most reductive of the three, and the default in a minimal interior. Available in metal, glass and matte finishes, with buttons and faceplate always in matching material. Rectangular and square plate options to suit the trim.
Refined · Signature Metal Collection
Round machined buttons set into a slim metal plate, each label engraved beneath it. Handcrafted finishes from Lutron’s Signature Metal Collection — brushed, polished and painted metals — for interiors where the hardware is meant to be noticed rather than hidden.
Heritage · sculpted brass, seven finishes
A genuine mechanical toggle — weighted travel and a solid click — hand-crafted from sculpted brass in seven Signature Metal finishes, in one to four toggle arrangements. Period character on the wall, a modern control system behind it. The answer for a historic remodel that refuses to look automated.
Lutron’s own tape light and linear fixtures for the places light should come from nowhere — coves, toe-kicks, shelving, mirror surrounds. Lumaris is wireless per fixture over Clear Connect, on the same processor as everything else, so the accents fade with the room instead of snapping off.
The full custom catalog — roller, roman, honeycomb, wood blinds and drapery tracks — built to the window at widths from 20 inches to 20 feet, with fascia and pocket details specified alongside the millwork.
Climate control in the same finish family as the keypads, so the wall reads as one system instead of three vendors’ ideas of white.
A HomeWorks panel can dim any fixture — but in the custom homes we build for, the fixtures themselves are now half the specification. Lutron makes the two lines that matter here, and a third, Lumaris, for the rest of the house. Compare all three →
Full-spectrum light from a four-channel engine that does what ordinary “tunable white” can’t: match the actual color of daylight as it moves through the day, render art and skin tones faithfully at every intensity, and dim to a true candlelight glow without going gray. Downlights, lamps and linear sources that need only line voltage: the control is wireless and inside the fixture, so there is no control wire and no dimming module per circuit. When a great room, a gallery wall or a kitchen deserves light as a design material, this is the material.
Lutron’s newest fixture line brings Ketra’s philosophy to the rest of the floor plan: a three-channel engine sweeping from 1800K firelight to 5500K daylight, CRI 90+ across most of that range, and dimming that stays smooth all the way to 0.1%, wireless per fixture like Ketra. It sits deliberately between standard tunable white and Ketra — elevated light, house-wide, without the flagship’s budget.
HomeWorks is chosen off the plan set, not from the aisle. Here’s how it lands on a build:
We mark up the plan with your architect: loads, panel locations, keypad positions, shade pockets.
Home runs to the panels for the circuits that are panelized, and line voltage to every wireless fixture, while the walls are open — coordinated with your electrician. Our pre-wire practice lives here.
Keypads set, engraving ordered, scenes and fade rates tuned room by room on site.
We come back after you’ve lived with it — because the best scene list is written by the house.
Beyond the walls looking better — four things a switch-based system structurally cannot do.
Cove lighting, toe-kicks, closet lights, exterior soffit runs, landscape zones — loads nobody put a wall switch on are controlled exactly like every other circuit.
The module is chosen for the load. A dining chandelier, a run of tape light and a 0–10 V downlight each dim correctly instead of sharing one compromise.
Rearranging what a button does is a programming change forever — no re-wiring, no new devices, no drywall. Homes change use; the system follows.
Everything terminates in a labeled panel. Diagnosing a circuit means opening a closet door, not hunting through thirty wall boxes.
At design development, ideally — before electrical drawings are finalized. Panel locations, circuit counts, shade pockets and keypad backboxes all belong on the plans. The costliest HomeWorks conversation is the one that starts after drywall.
Centralize circuits behind panels with walls reduced to engraved keypads; carry the metal keypad families (Palladiom, Alisse, Aviena, Architrave, Signature Series); run DALI, HomeWorks Digital and DMX loads and wired Sivoia QS shades; and scale to 10,000 zones. The wireless side — Sunnata, Pico, Triathlon, Ketra, Rania, Lumaris — is shared with RadioRA 3.
No. Lutron builds HomeWorks for “retrofit or new construction, wireless or wired.” The panelized design wants home runs while the walls are open, so that version belongs on the plans or in a gut remodel; a wireless or hybrid HomeWorks system can go into a finished home. For most finished homes RadioRA 3 is the simpler answer, and we will tell you which.
We do — design, panel builds, programming, engraving, and service for the life of the system, from Lehi. HomeWorks done well is mostly programming and follow-through; the hardware is the easy part.
It scales with circuit count and finish selections rather than square footage, so the honest answer comes from the plan set. What we can say up front: the panels and processor are a smaller share of the number than most people expect, and the keypad finishes are a larger one — which means there are real choices to make once we know how many circuits the house has.
Yes, and it’s often the right call — Aviena toggles in a heritage wing, Palladiom in a modern addition. One system underneath, different design language per space. We map that room by room with your designer.
Legacy HomeWorks Illumination and QS-era installations have documented upgrade paths to QSX, and existing panels can often be bridged rather than replaced. If a previous integrator walked away from an estate system, we take those over regularly — start with a service visit rather than a demolition quote.
No. The QSX processor holds all logic locally, so keypads, scenes and the astronomic timeclock keep running through an outage. Internet is for the app when you’re away and for us to support the system remotely.
Bring us the plan set — we’ll walk it with your architect and price the lighting the house deserves.
