2. How would I control the room lights if the switches
are out of sight?
Alternative number two is if you have a computer running the homecontrol software called Homeseer. Then you can use a plugin called Prontonic so you can control everything homeseer can using the remote. I use it to control a lot of Z-Wave lights and currently just a single X10 light that I'm going to change to Z-Wave as soon as possible.