Josh.ai
Josh.ai is voice control that does not behave like a smart speaker. There is no puck on the kitchen counter, no wake-word novelty, and no account quietly monetizing what it hears. It is a control layer for the whole house — and in Ottawa it usually arrives inside a Lutron keypad you were going to install anyway.
The keypad is the story
Josh and Lutron built a keypad together. The microphone — Josh Nano — is set into a Palladiom or Claro keypad, so the wall keeps the buttons your family already understands and gains everything a button cannot do. Lutron publishes it as one product, and it works with all Lutron systems: Palladiom in Satin Nickel or Polished Graphite, Claro in Snow White or Midnight.
That matters here, because Flux is the representative for Lutron in Ottawa. When we design a control system for a home, the keypads are Lutron already. Choosing the Josh version is not adding a gadget to the house — it is choosing a different faceplate on a wall plate that was going in regardless.
What you can actually say to it
Josh understands compound commands, so one sentence can carry several outcomes. “Goodnight, and wake me at 6am” closes the scene and sets the alarm. “Draw the sheers halfway” moves Lutron shading to a position, not just open or shut. And because Josh speaks Ketra natively, it can be asked for a colour by name — Ketra’s palette runs past 16.7 million colours, which is unusable from a keypad and trivial from a sentence.
It reaches the rest of the house too: lights, shades, music, climate, cameras, fireplaces, door stations and gates.
Privacy is the actual product
Josh Nano carries a hardware disconnect switch that disables its microphones completely — not a software mute, a switch. Josh.ai states that your data is never shared for marketing purposes and never sold for third-party advertisements. For most of the homes we work in, that single paragraph is the reason the conversation starts at all.
The part the brochure buries
Josh is not something you buy and plug in. A working system needs Josh Core as its brain, a Josh.ai software licence, and an enterprise-grade network — not the router the internet company left behind. That is a design decision, not a shopping decision, and it is cheap to make early and expensive to retrofit.
The Nano itself is 42 mm square and 3 mm deep — slightly larger than a quarter. It comes in Coral White or Jet Black, and it can be painted to disappear into the wall entirely. It speaks back through the home’s own audio system rather than through a tinny speaker of its own.
Where this gets decided
Keypad locations are fixed while the walls are still open. So is the network. If voice is something you might want in three years, the time to say so is now — the wall you want it in is being framed this month.
Josh is installed in the media room at our Ottawa showroom, so you can talk to it before you commit to it. We design the control system, and we would rather do it before the drywall than after. Start with Lutron and Ketra, see how the pieces fit together in lighting control and automated shading, then come and talk to us.
The demonstration starts with a question
Josh is installed in the media room of our Ottawa showroom, and in a Palladiom keypad on the wall. Ask it for something and watch where it looks for the answer. It is the fastest way to understand what it is — and what it is not.
Josh.ai is voice control that does not behave like a smart speaker. There is no puck on the kitchen counter, no wake-word novelty, and no account quietly monetizing what it hears. It is a control layer for the whole house — and in Ottawa it usually arrives inside a Lutron keypad you were going to install anyway.
The keypad is the story
Josh and Lutron built a keypad together. The microphone — Josh Nano — is set into a Palladiom or Claro keypad, so the wall keeps the buttons your family already understands and gains everything a button cannot do. Lutron publishes it as one product, and it works with all Lutron systems: Palladiom in Satin Nickel or Polished Graphite, Claro in Snow White or Midnight.
That matters here, because Flux is the representative for Lutron in Ottawa. When we design a control system for a home, the keypads are Lutron already. Choosing the Josh version is not adding a gadget to the house — it is choosing a different faceplate on a wall plate that was going in regardless.
What you can actually say to it
Josh understands compound commands, so one sentence can carry several outcomes. “Goodnight, and wake me at 6am” closes the scene and sets the alarm. “Draw the sheers halfway” moves Lutron shading to a position, not just open or shut. And because Josh speaks Ketra natively, it can be asked for a colour by name — Ketra’s palette runs past 16.7 million colours, which is unusable from a keypad and trivial from a sentence.
It reaches the rest of the house too: lights, shades, music, climate, cameras, fireplaces, door stations and gates.
Privacy is the actual product
Josh Nano carries a hardware disconnect switch that disables its microphones completely — not a software mute, a switch. Josh.ai states that your data is never shared for marketing purposes and never sold for third-party advertisements. For most of the homes we work in, that single paragraph is the reason the conversation starts at all.
The part the brochure buries
Josh is not something you buy and plug in. A working system needs Josh Core as its brain, a Josh.ai software licence, and an enterprise-grade network — not the router the internet company left behind. That is a design decision, not a shopping decision, and it is cheap to make early and expensive to retrofit.
The Nano itself is 42 mm square and 3 mm deep — slightly larger than a quarter. It comes in Coral White or Jet Black, and it can be painted to disappear into the wall entirely. It speaks back through the home’s own audio system rather than through a tinny speaker of its own.
Where this gets decided
Keypad locations are fixed while the walls are still open. So is the network. If voice is something you might want in three years, the time to say so is now — the wall you want it in is being framed this month.
Josh is installed in the media room at our Ottawa showroom, so you can talk to it before you commit to it. We design the control system, and we would rather do it before the drywall than after. Start with Lutron and Ketra, see how the pieces fit together in lighting control and automated shading, then come and talk to us.
The demonstration starts with a question
Josh is installed in the media room of our Ottawa showroom, and in a Palladiom keypad on the wall. Ask it for something and watch where it looks for the answer. It is the fastest way to understand what it is — and what it is not.