Lighting Control System Cost in Frisco: 2026 Complete ROI Guide

A lighting control system in a Frisco house (keypads, dimmers, and scenes, not smart bulbs) runs about $3,000-$6,000 for a single room, $8,000-$15,000 for the main living spaces, and $15,000-$30,000 for a whole home, as the scope table below sets out. What you pay tracks load count, wiring, equipment tier, and programming. Ranges are for planning; your written proposal follows a site visit.

Whole-home lighting control uses engraved keypads, dimmers at the switch, and scenes stored on a processor. For app bulbs and plug-in smart switches, see the smart lighting cost guide; for platform comparisons, see the smart lighting options guide. To estimate the scope, turn your room list into a count of switched or dimmed circuits. Multiple switches controlling the same circuit count as one load. Use the checklist below to record the circuits you want controlled.

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Five things move the number, in this order: how many circuits you put on the system, which rooms those circuits serve, whether the walls are open, which equipment line you specify, and how much scene programming you want. A lighting load is one switched or dimmed circuit. A three-gang box is three loads. Two switches that control the same hallway light (a 3-way) count as one load.

We put the dimming job this way: dimming happens at the load, so incandescent, LED, and low-voltage fixtures on the same scene come up together instead of one flickering at the bottom of its range. That is why a keypad scene costs more than a bag of bulbs. The fixtures have to be dimmable, and the dimmer has to match the lamp.

Wiring is the other fork. In a finished Frisco house the wireless Lutron line replaces existing switches and adds battery-powered Pico remotes and keypads without opening walls. Open-wall work during a new-construction pre-wire is a different labor path: keypad boxes and homeruns go in before drywall. Same scenes. Different hours on site.

Equipment tier is the third fork. A Caséta dimmer you can set up from a phone is not a RadioRA 3 processor with seeTouch or Sunnata keypads. A HomeWorks job with a QSX processor is built for houses that outgrow a single wireless system. If lighting is only one slice of a larger automation project, the lighting line items still follow this page; the rest of the budget lives on the smart home automation cost guide.

Programming is the last fork, and it is easy to undercount. Someone has to name the buttons, set the levels, and come back after the household has lived with them. Engraving ships with the plate, so the scene names need to be decided before the hardware is ordered.

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What does a system cost by scope?Link to this section#

The dollar bands below are for planning. A firm price comes from a written proposal after a room measurement.

Those bands assume smart switches or dimmers, keypads, a control processor, programming, app access, and scene creation. LED lamp swaps run $5-$25 per bulb. Outdoor lighting control and extra automation are add-ons, not part of the band.

The last column is the equipment, installation, and programming on that row added together. Use a counted load list before you treat any floor as real money.

How do you count lighting loads before you hire anyone?Link to this section#

Count circuits, not square feet. Walk the house with a notepad and treat each dimmer or switch you want on the system as one load. Skip the closet you will leave as a plain snap switch. Include the porch if you want it on a Goodnight button.

1. Walk every floor and write the room name, then the number of gang positions you want controlled.
2. Mark 3-way and 4-way circuits as one load, and note every extra location that needs a Pico or a companion keypad.
3. Separate dimmable lights from switched-only loads (fans, baths with non-dimmable LEDs, garage openers).
4. Photograph the panel directory and a typical switch box so a designer can see neutrals and multi-gang plates.
5. Decide which rooms get a keypad (entry, kitchen, primary suite) versus a dimmer that only raises and lowers.
6. List lamps you still want on a plug-in dimmer, because those are extra devices, not wall loads.
7. If the house is under construction, send the electrical plan pages that show lighting homeruns and keypad boxes.

Example: a first-floor walk finds five kitchen loads, eight in the living and dining rooms, two at the entry, and ten in the primary suite. That is 5 + 8 + 2 + 10 = 25 loads before upstairs or exterior. Twenty-five sits on the 15-25 row if you stop there, so keep counting the rest of the house before you pick a band.

A keypad is a wall station with labeled scene buttons. Six to eight keypads run $2,000-$4,000. Put them where a guest can work the room without a tutorial: the door you come home through, the kitchen, and the bed wall.

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Choose Caséta if you want a phone-first system in a finished house and you can live inside Lutron's published device cap. A Caséta Smart Hub system supports up to 75 wireless devices, and the hub counts as one of them. The Caséta in-wall dimmer (PD-6WCL) is a two-wire dimmer with no neutral required; Lutron rates that model at up to 150 W of LED and up to 600 W of incandescent or halogen, with a 25 W or one-bulb minimum. DIY is fine here for a few rooms if you will replace the switches yourself and you accept app-and-Pico control instead of engraved whole-home keypads.

Choose RadioRA 3 if you want professional keypads and scenes that keep working when the internet drops. The RadioRA 3 processor spec allows 100 Clear Connect Type X devices per processor and 95 Type A devices per processor, with up to four processors in a system. Local device operation continues if the internet connection is lost. The processor is powered by a PoE injector or switch. For planning, RadioRA 3 runs $150-$250 per load and $800-$1,500 for the processor, and a 30-40 load whole-home job $15,000-$25,000.

Choose HomeWorks if the house is large enough that a single RadioRA 3 system is the wrong box. Lutron's residential and commercial system rules for HomeWorks with a QSX processor allow up to 16 combined QSX processors and Type X gateways, and up to 10,000 switch legs in one system. That is an estate-scale wired-plus-wireless line, not a starter kit.

Choose a whole-home controller (Control4, Savant, or Crestron lighting as the lighting layer) if you already want lighting, video, and security on one remote. Control4's lighting page describes keypad scenes that can start a theater source, plus motion-sensor night paths. For planning, Control4 lighting runs $200-$350 per load and $1,500-$3,000 for the processor, and a 30-40 load whole-home lighting line $20,000-$35,000. Savant runs $250-$400 per load and $2,500-$5,000 for the processor. Crestron runs $300-$500 per load and $4,000-$10,000 for the processor.

Caséta whole-home DIY runs $3,000-$8,000 for 25-35 loads, or $5,000-$12,000 if a professional hangs the same gear. That is a different product from RadioRA 3, even though both say Lutron on the wallplate.

Lamp money is separate. For planning, a standard dimmable A19 LED runs $5-$12, a better-dimming lamp $12-$25, a can-light retrofit $15-$35, and a color-tunable lamp $25-$60. Whole-home lamp packages run $400-$900 for 50-75 bulbs, $750-$1,500 for 75-125 bulbs, and $1,500-$3,000 for 125-200 bulbs. The U.S. Department of Energy LED basics page says good-quality white LED products are expected to have a useful life of 30,000 to 50,000 hours (the hours until output falls to 70% of the start value), and that LED products can be used with controls such as occupancy and daylight sensors. As above, the lamp still has to be dimmable and matched to the dimmer.

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DIY is enough when the job is a handful of Caséta dimmers, a Smart Hub, and Pico remotes, and you are comfortable on a ladder. Skip a professional RadioRA 3 system if you are in a short lease, if you want one lamp on a schedule, or if you will not use scenes. A $15,000-$25,000 RadioRA 3 allowance is the wrong spend for a guest room you barely use.

A pro system is worth pricing when you want whole-home Off from the door you leave by, when mixed fixtures on one scene have to match, or when you already know you will add shades and a theater later. It is not worth it as an energy project alone. If the goal is cheaper kilowatt-hours, start with LED lamps and vacancy sensors in rooms that sit empty. Then decide whether keypads are a living upgrade or a luxury you can defer.

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A keypad scene does not, by itself, cut a lighting bill 30-40%. Savings show up when lights turn down or off in empty rooms, or when daylight already does the work. The Department of Energy's wireless occupancy-sensor guide for federal facility managers says lighting energy savings of 10% to 90% are possible depending on room usage. Those figures are for occupancy sensors in commercial and institutional rooms, not a measured Frisco whole-home keypad job. Treat 30-40% as a band that appears in some of those room types when sensors actually shut lights off, not as a promise for engraved scenes in a living room that stays occupied.

If someone sells lighting control as a fast energy win, ask which rooms get vacancy sensors and how those rooms are used now. Convenience and one-touch Off are the usual reason to buy. Energy is a side effect you can measure after the sensors are in.

How is a written proposal produced?Link to this section#

Bring the load list from the checklist, photos of the panel and a few switch boxes, and a note on which rooms must have keypads. Digitalholics, a Lutron Gold Dealer working from Plano since 2015, starts with a complimentary phone consultation. If the job is a fit, a site visit turns that list into a line-item proposal. Nothing on this page is that proposal.

Ask the person quoting you to separate equipment, labor, and programming, the same way the load table does. Ask whether the dimmers specified need a neutral. Ask how scenes get revised after you live with them. If the quote is a single lump, you cannot tell whether you are paying for keypads or for drywall.

For Lutron lighting design and installation in Frisco, start on the Lutron lighting service page, or request a consultation.

SourcesLink to this section#

• U.S. Department of Energy, Lighting Controls Solutions
• U.S. Department of Energy, LED Basics
• U.S. Department of Energy / FEMP, Wireless Occupancy Sensors for Lighting Controls (PDF)
• Lutron RadioRA 3 processor specification
• Lutron residential and commercial system rules
• Lutron Caséta load controls specification
• Lutron Caséta in-wall dimmer specification
• Control4 smart lighting