Smart Home, Lighting & AV in Montclair.

Cave Group does. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer with an office in Fairview, Bergen County, and we design, install, and service lighting control, shades, cinema, audio, networking, security, and backup power for houses in Montclair and Glen Ridge, most of them built before 1940.

Outside, yes: a landmark or a house inside one of the four districts needs a Certificate of Appropriateness for exterior changes, and the township lists exterior lighting among them, so cameras, fixtures, and vents are drawn for the application. Inside, the commission has no say, and changes not visible from the public way are exempt, so the system itself is yours.

In most rooms, yes. Lutron's wireless keypads and dimmers go in the existing boxes, Ketra lamps go in the existing fixtures, shades mount inside the frame, and the equipment lives in a closet or the basement. Where a wire has to run, we use the attic and the basement, and we open as little as the house allows.

New Jersey's Noise Control Act caps sound at a neighbor's property line at 65 decibels from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and 50 overnight, and the exemption for an emergency generator applies only while it is actually supplying power in an outage, so the weekly exercise cycle is not exempt. We size the generator for the house and the rack, place it where the town's zoning permit allows, specify the enclosure, set the exercise cycle for a weekday afternoon, and have the licensed electrician pull the permit.

Yes. We take over existing Crestron, Lutron, and Savant systems, and when a system can no longer be supported, whatever the brand, we plan a replacement that reuses the wiring already in the walls. It starts with a survey: we assess and document the equipment, recover or rebuild the programming, replace what has reached end of life, and bring the result under a Cave Watch support plan so the next problem has a phone number.

Verizon Fios reaches most of these towns, Optimum is building fiber at up to 8 gigabits in several of them, and Xfinity serves parts of Morris County. We confirm what reaches the address, and on larger properties we design for two connections with automatic failover, so a single outage does not take the house offline.