Touché Replacement Guide for Commercial Buildings

What Happened to Touché

Touché Lighting Control (ESI Ventures / Touché Controls LLC) was founded in 2009 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It made wired commercial lighting control, and it was installed in offices, schools, churches, sports facilities and institutional buildings.

In early 2025 the company laid off nearly all of its staff, and in March 2025 it filed for Chapter 7 liquidation. In April 2026 all of its assets, including inventory, patents, servers and customer lists, were sold for $5,000 to Habitat for Humanity (Inside Lighting covered the sale). No company from the lighting industry bought them. There is no factory support, no warranty and no source of new parts.

What a Touché System Includes

If your building has Touché, you will likely recognize some of these components:

• Room Managers and load modules (relay and 0-10V).
• Central Relay/Dimmer panels.
• Touchscreen wall stations and switches.
• Occupancy and daylight sensors, connected over SmartNet (daisy-chained CAT5).
• UL924 emergency modules.

Why You Can’t Keep Running It

With the company liquidated, nobody supports the system. There is no technical support, no warranty and no source of new parts. When a Room Manager, panel or wall station fails, there is no replacement coming from the manufacturer.

Touché switches, wall stations and sensors only work with Touché controllers. They cannot be reused with another control system. For a building that people depend on every day, planning the replacement before something fails is a much better position than reacting to an outage.

The Migration Path

Here is how the migration works, in plain language.

What stays. The lighting circuits and much of the existing cabling. We confirm exactly what can be reused during the on-site assessment.

What gets replaced. The Touché control logic. Because Touché switches, wall stations and sensors only work with Touché controllers, the controllers and the devices that depend on them are replaced with LOXONE.

What you keep. The modes and scenes your building uses today. We document them before anything is removed and rebuild them in LOXONE, so occupants keep the behavior they know.

What you gain. An app for facilities staff, time schedules, remote access, and integration with your building automation system. The current LOXONE Miniserver is BACnet BTL-certified (BTL-31076) over BACnet/IP.

Line-voltage work is done by a licensed electrician. In Texas, that is one we bring to the project; outside Texas, it is your local licensed electrician. Depending on the wiring, the work can be phased by zone, which we confirm after seeing the wiring on site.

At handover you receive the admin password and the full configuration file, and the first year of support is included.

Preparing for the Assessment

You do not need a complete file to start. A few things make the on-site visit faster and the proposal more accurate:

1. As-built drawings or panel locations. If you have drawings, bring them. If not, a list of where the Touché panels and closets are is enough.
2. A list of rooms and areas that the Touché system controls.
3. The lighting modes and scenes your staff use, such as event mode, cleaning mode, after-hours mode or classroom presets.
4. Areas that cannot go dark, and any hours when work is not possible.
5. Your building automation system (BAS) contact, if lighting should be integrated with it.

Why Grizzly Tec

• LOXONE Partner since 2015, and a LOXONE Platinum Partner today.
• LOXONE publishes 10 of our projects as references. Four are in its international reference gallery and one is on LOXONE TV.
• Legacy lighting control replacement: LiteTouch replacements in Houston, Dallas and Louisiana, plus rescues of jobs started by others in Alabama, Dallas and Houston. We also replace Vantage systems with the same process.
• Based in Spring, Texas. We work in the Houston area and nationwide.
• Texas security license #B-29733501. We are not an electrical contractor, which is why electrical work is done by a licensed electrician.

Pricing

Every Touché building is different: the number of rooms and panels, how much cabling can be reused, and what you want to integrate. The price is set after an on-site assessment of your existing system.

Schedule an Assessment

We review your existing Touché system on site, including panels, wall stations, sensors, cabling and the modes in use, and then send you a proposal with scope, price and timeline.

Schedule an Assessment

For more on the service itself, see our Touché replacement page.

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Grizzly Tec is a LOXONE Partner since 2015 (Platinum today) based in Spring, TX, serving the Houston area and nationwide. Texas security license #B-29733501.