ELAN Launches Accelerated Dealer Training Certification Program With g! School!

In response to the growing market demand for its award-winning g! Entertainment and Control System, ELAN® Home Systems today announced that it has enhanced its training program to enable prospective dealers to become certified ELAN g! installers in just 20 hours through a combination of online training and a two-day in-person session.

Nearly 1,000 students have already utilized the free on-demand, self-paced training offered at ELAN’s online g! School, which is available 24/7 and provides more than 150 unique courses.

According to Eric Herdman, ELAN Home Systems Content Manager, “Our coordinated approach to dealer certification combines online and in-person training in a way that ensures that any prospect, anywhere in the world, can become an ELAN dealer as quickly as they want to. By combining a free seven-hour online introduction course with a 13- hour, 1.5 day regional on-site training seminar, we provide new dealers with hands-on experience plus a complete understanding of the inner working of the ELAN g! system.”

The certification process is incredibly simple: a new dealer simply visits www.brainshark.com/go/elan and signs up to take the online course, which is available immediately. Upon successful completion of the 7-hour training course, the new dealer contacts an ELAN regional representative to sign up for a 1.5 day, $100 in-person training seminar in their local area that will complete their education. After the in-person seminar, each dealer must pass a final online exam to receive ELAN g! certification, which is sent in a PDF and available immediately so they can get right to work!

“Our solution allows dealers to become familiar with the ELAN g! system on their own time, with the ability to pause, rewind and restart any lesson they need, so they can progress at their own pace and on their schedule,” Herdman emphasized. “Giving them an online introduction before they do the in-person training is invaluable, and there’s nothing to lose because the online courses are free.”

ELAN’s g! School is the latest incarnation of ELAN U, which debuted as the first-ever online installation-training program in 2003. Since then, installers have taken more than 300,000 online lessons, earning the program numerous awards including the CEA Mark of Excellence Award for Best Training and Support Programs and the Inside Track Certificate of Excellence for Best Dealer Training.

New ELAN g! 6.4 Software Expands Integration With Additions to Driver Catalog and IR Database

Demonstrating its commitment to provide dealers and end-users with continuous updates to the ELAN® g! Entertainment and Control System, ELAN Home Systems today announced the release of ELAN g! 6.4 Software, which promises to greatly reduce installation time. The g! 6.4 release boasts a massive expansion to the IR library database, making it the world’s most accurate standardized IR code set and simplifying installation for ELAN dealers. The software update is also packed with new drivers for security, climate control, DVR’s, NVR’s, I/O adaptors, signal routing products and a new one-way interface for Kaleidescape Media Servers.

“ELAN is dedicated to helping our dealers complete jobs quickly and painlessly,” Robert Ridenour, ELAN Brand Manager said, “and the ELAN g! IR library expansion does just that by creating a simpler, faster installation process. Through a new partnership with Only One Remote, the ELAN IR Database delivers the most complete and accurate IR code set available today. We believe g! is the best control system on the market, and we will continue to enhance the core functionality and grow the driver database with all the must-have features and third-party products that our dealers and users demand.”

According to Ridenour, the g! system is the easiest, most user-friendly control system on the market, and the new core features and third-party drivers expand the system’s selling features to make it the industry’s most marketable home control system.

“By constantly adding features and third party drivers we are giving dealers and users more reasons to install and expand the ELAN g! system,” Ridenour said. “With added support for products from Kaleidescape, Heatmiser, Lutron and several others, we are making the g! system even easier to integrate, lowering the total cost of installation, and allowing for more user choice.”

The g! system now supports integration with an even larger pool of third-party devices including SnapAV DVRs, NVRs and cameras, Coolmaster and Heatmiser climate systems, security systems including Honeywell, DSC, Paradox and Texecom Premier Elite 48, Wyrestorm HDMI matrix switchers, Kaleidescape media servers, Lutron Radio RA2, QS, QS International and the new Atlona 6x6.