The Hamptons · East Hampton, New York
Smart Home, Lighting & AV in East Hampton.
Four historic districts in the Village, a Town that cut allowable house size in 2025, and the highest village median on the South Fork. East Hampton asks for a system that respects the house and runs itself when the family is away.
East Hampton, Specifically
Respect the House, Then Make It Work.
East Hampton Village has four historic districts, and owners in them may not change the appearance of significant exterior elements without a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Design Review Board, which publishes a manual for each district. In March 2025 the Town cut its allowed gross floor area from 10 percent of lot area plus 1,600 square feet to 7 percent plus 1,500, under a 10,000-square-foot cap, so new houses are drawn tighter than they used to be.
Inside those lines the work is the same as anywhere on the East End: one system across the buildings, equipment above the flood line, a network with a second path, and monitoring for the months nobody is home. East Hampton Village posted the highest median of any South Fork village in the third quarter of 2025, at $4,971,000.
01 · Review
The Design Review Board
In the Village's historic districts, exterior fixtures and cameras are exterior changes. We draw them for the Certificate of Appropriateness, match the district manual, and keep the equipment inside, where the board has no say.
02 · Size
Tighter Drawings
Under the 2025 code a quarter-acre lot supports a house near 2,200 square feet instead of 2,600. The equipment room, the shade pockets, and the conduit are planned into a smaller envelope, which means planning them early.
03 · Water
The Ponds and the Ocean
The oceanfront, Hook Pond, and Georgica Pond are the Village's flood-prone areas, and North Main and Cedar Street flood often. Racks, transfer switches, and outdoor electronics sit above the flood line.
At a Glance
East Hampton in brief.
- Historic districts
- The Village has four historic districts, Main Street, Huntting Lane, Ocean Avenue, and The Hook; owners there may not change the appearance of significant exterior elements without a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Design Review Board, which publishes a manual for each district.
- House size
- In March 2025 East Hampton Town cut its allowed gross floor area from 10 percent of lot area plus 1,600 square feet to 7 percent plus 1,500, under an absolute cap of 10,000 square feet.
- Flood zones
- The Village's flood-prone areas are the oceanfront, Hook Pond, and Georgica Pond; North Main Street and Cedar Street often flood, and Route 27 floods in a worst case.
- Market
- East Hampton Village had the highest median sale price of any South Fork village in the third quarter of 2025, at $4,971,000 (Miller Samuel for Douglas Elliman); the Hamptons overall set a record median of $2,412,500 in the first quarter of 2026.
- Electric service
- The Long Island Power Authority's grid, operated by PSEG Long Island, serves the Village; a February 2025 transmission incident left more than 21,500 customers from Montauk to Wainscott without power.
- Internet
- Optimum is the only wired provider across much of the Hamptons, East Hampton included, with no Verizon Fios; Starlink works across the region.
- Licensing
- New York State licenses security and fire alarm installers through the Department of State, and Suffolk County reserves direct line-voltage connections to its Master Electricians.
Sources: Village of East Hampton, historic services; Village of East Hampton, Design Review Board; East End Beacon, East Hampton's house-size code; Suffolk County hazard mitigation plan, Village of East Hampton; Social Life Magazine, Hamptons Q3 2025 report; Miller Samuel, Hamptons sales 1Q 2026; Long Island Power Authority, about LIPA; The East Hampton Star, February 2025 outage; HTE, internet providers in the Hamptons; New York State security and fire alarm installer license; Suffolk County electrical licensing code.
Reading for East Hampton
Guides and work nearby.
- Smart home design in East Hampton →
Historic districts, the size code, and the system that fits both.
- The handover checklist for a Hamptons estate →
- Monitoring a Hamptons house off-season →
- Oceanfront engineering in Sagaponack and Wainscott →
- Outdoor entertainment systems for the Hamptons →
- Waterfront Residence, Southampton, 2024 →
What We Install and Service
Every System. One Keypad.
Lighting & Shades
Lutron HomeWorks, Ketra and Rania light, Palladiom keypads, and shades that disappear into the ceiling.
Lighting →Whole-Home Control
Crestron and Lutron on one set of keypads and touchscreens, programmed the same way in every house you own.
Residential →Cinema & Music
Dedicated theaters, media rooms, and music in every room without a speaker in sight.
Residential →Network
Enterprise Wi-Fi and fiber sized for a large house, guest houses, and the far end of the lawn.
Networking →Security & Gate
Cameras, access control, gate intercom, and an alarm that a UL-listed central station answers.
Security →Outdoors
Landscape lighting and outdoor sound on one buried infrastructure, on the same keypad as the house.
Outdoor →Upgrades
Older Crestron and Lutron systems brought current, reusing the wiring already in the walls wherever possible.
Upgrade paths →Support
Monitoring, remote fixes, and priority response under one plan.
Cave Watch →Questions From East Hampton
East Hampton, Answered
Who installs Lutron and Crestron systems in East Hampton?+–
Cave Group does. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer with an office in Long Island City, and our Hamptons work includes a Southampton waterfront residence completed in 2024 with Lutron HomeWorks QSX, Crestron 4-Series, UniFi Wi-Fi 7, and distributed audio indoors and out. We work from Wainscott to Montauk.
Our house is in one of the Village's historic districts. Does that change the work?+–
Outside, yes: a camera, a fixture, or anything that alters a significant exterior element needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Design Review Board, and each district has a manual the proposal has to match. Inside, the board has no say, so the equipment, the shades, and the system live within the envelope and we draw only the exterior pieces for the application.
How do you keep an East Hampton house running when we are not there?+–
With monitoring and redundancy. Cave Watch watches the network, the control system, audio-video, and lighting around the clock and fixes most faults remotely; central-station alarm monitoring and live guard video monitoring stack on the same plan. The network carries a second connection, often Starlink, and the rack sits on battery backup, so a winter outage does not leave the house dark to us.
What internet is available in East Hampton?+–
Across much of the East End, Optimum is the only wired provider and there is no Verizon Fios. We confirm what reaches the address, and we design the network with Starlink or a second carrier as automatic failover, so the cameras, the remote access, and the house itself survive a cut.
Do you take over systems another company installed?+–
Yes. We assess and document what is there, recover or rebuild the programming, replace what has reached end of life, and bring the system under a Cave Watch support plan, so the next problem has a phone number.
Nearby
Other Hamptons villages and hamlets we serve.
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Walk the House With Us.
Bring the drawings if the house is on paper, or the list of what no longer works if it is already built. We will tell you what we would do, in what order, what it would take, and what still has to run when nobody is home.
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