Your LiteTouch system is living on borrowed time.
Discontinued since 2015 — no new parts, no manufacturer support, and one failed module away from a room full of lights you can't turn on. We've replaced dozens across Houston, reusing the wiring already in your walls and upgrading you to control that's built to last. You don't have to live in the dark, and you don't have to open up your walls to fix it.
A great system, in its day — with no day left.
LiteTouch was a centralized, low-voltage lighting control system — genuinely ahead of its time. Instead of standard line-voltage switches, every keypad in the home ran on low-voltage wiring back to a central control unit (CCU) and its lighting modules, tucked into a panel in a closet, basement, or utility room. Press a keypad button anywhere in the house and the command travels to the panel, where the actual dimmer, relay, and motor modules switch the load. Elegant, centralized, and — when it works — invisible.
That architecture is exactly why a failure is so disruptive. In a conventional home, a dead switch affects one light. In a LiteTouch home, the intelligence is centralized — so a failing CCU or a bad module can take out lighting across whole zones of the house at once. The keypads on your walls are just the messengers; the brain and the muscle are in that panel.
If your home has low-voltage keypads with a cluster of small buttons and engraved labels, wired back to a central panel of modules — that's LiteTouch, or something very much like it. And if it's started dropping scenes, ignoring buttons, or flickering zones, it isn't asking for a repair. It's telling you it's near the end.
Discontinued in 2015. That word matters more than it sounds.
LiteTouch was discontinued in 2015. When a proprietary system is discontinued, it doesn't just stop being sold — it stops being supported. No new CCUs. No new modules. No firmware. No factory to call when something fails. The only parts left in the world are the ones already sitting in other homes, and salvaged, used modules from a decade-old discontinued line are a bet, not a fix — you're paying to install another component that's already past its designed life.
This is the trap every LiteTouch owner is in: you were sold a beautiful, proprietary system, and when the manufacturer walked away, you were stranded with it. That's not a knock on the original choice — LiteTouch was a premium system. It's just the reality of proprietary hardware once the maker is gone. A failing LiteTouch system needs replacing, not repairing — and the goal is to replace it in a way that makes sure you're never stranded like this again.
The wiring in your walls is worth keeping.
Here's the good news, and it's bigger than it sounds: we can almost always reuse the wiring that's already in your home. The most expensive, invasive, destructive part of any lighting-control project is running new wire — opening walls, patching, repainting. Your LiteTouch home was already wired for centralized control. In most homes, we work with that existing infrastructure rather than tearing it out.
If someone told you a modern replacement means opening up your walls — get a second opinion.
There's a claim floating around that moving off LiteTouch requires wall repair, and that centralized replacements simply aren't practical. That's not our experience. We have replacement solutions that work with your existing wiring and interface with any modern control system — and we've done it dozens of times without turning your home into a construction site. If a modern replacement really required tearing open finished walls, we wouldn't be recommending it either. It doesn't have to.
Every home is different, and we'll always confirm what's reusable once we see the actual conditions — but "you'll have to open the walls" is not the sentence LiteTouch owners should accept as fact.
Off the dead brand — and never married to another one.
This is the part that matters most, and it's where our advice differs from a lot of shops. The lesson of LiteTouch isn't "pick a different brand." It's "don't get locked into a proprietary system again." So when we replace your LiteTouch lighting, our goal is to leave you free — with lighting that isn't chained to any one control platform.
Lutron — the default, for good reason
Lutron is the gold standard in lighting and shade control, and — critically — it's control-system-agnostic. It works with Control4, Crestron, Vantage, or on its own. That's the whole point: your lighting is excellent and independent. If you change your control system in five years because something better fits your life, your lighting stays exactly where it is. You never get married to a brand again. For the large majority of homes, this is the right answer.
What about Control4 or Crestron lighting?
Worth clearing up a common mix-up: Control4 and Crestron are control systems — the brain. Lutron and Vantage are lighting systems the brain talks to. Each control-system brand also makes its own lighting, and we can install any of it. But branded lighting has one real sweet spot, and a LiteTouch replacement usually isn't it.
Where branded lighting genuinely earns its place is when a wall keypad needs to do more than lighting — say a single-gang station in a bathroom that controls one light and the room's audio on the same clean surface. A Control4 keypad dimmer can carry both; a standalone lighting keypad can't. That scenario shows up most in new construction, when the whole control system is going in at once. Replacing an aging LiteTouch system is a different job — and there, tying your new lighting to one control brand mostly just recreates the lock-in that stranded you in the first place. So unless there's a specific reason branded lighting is right for your home, we keep you on agnostic lighting (Lutron, or Vantage where it fits) and let you stay free.
What's helpful to have on hand.
None of this is required — a phone call is enough to get started, and we'll figure out the rest on site. But if you want to help us help you faster, these details are useful:
- Where the central panel lives — the closet, basement, or utility room with the low-voltage modules and wiring. A photo of the panel, doors open, tells us a lot.
- What's failing, and how — whole zones dark, specific keypads dead, scenes misbehaving, intermittent flicker. The pattern points us at the cause.
- A rough count of keypads and the rooms they control — even approximate helps us understand the size of the system.
- Photos of a typical keypad — the button layout and any engraved labels help confirm exactly what you have.
- Whether you've already lost any lighting — if part of the house is already dark, tell us; we'll treat it with the urgency it deserves.
Can't find or reach the panel? Don't worry about it. Just call — locating and assessing it is part of what we do.
An honest answer about price.
We don't post prices, and we want to be straight with you about why: in this work, a number quoted sight-unseen will burn you. Two identical-looking homes can turn into very different projects once the work begins. How the LiteTouch was originally wired, what's reusable, the wall finishes, whether old incandescent fixtures need to move to LED, even the furniture that has to be worked around — the variables are too large to fake a figure that means anything. Anyone who throws you a "starting at" price before seeing your home is guessing, and that guess will come back to bite one of us.
So we do it the honest way. We come out, look at the real conditions, and give you a clear, detailed proposal — the equipment, the plan, and the price for your home, not a home like yours. New-project consultations are free. You'll know exactly what you're getting before any work begins.
Don't wait for the last module to die.
A LiteTouch system rarely fails all at once — it warns you first. The best time to plan your replacement is before a room goes dark, on your schedule instead of in an emergency. Let's take a look.