remote control may cause the drapes to open and close quickly before settling to the desired preset referring now to fig1 a there is seen an exemplary infrared remote control 700 operable to control lights and to set and or recall at least one preset setting assigned to the lights according to the present invention remote control 700 includes an infrared emitter 720 and two large buttons 705 a 705 b disposed in vertical arrangement on the left side of the control buttons 705 a 705 b comprise on and off controls for a light immediately to the right of buttons 705 a 705 b is a set of vertically disposed buttons 710 a 710 b which may be pressed to cause the light to brighten or dim in a continuous fashion between the two extremes that are controlled by the on and off or the open and close buttons buttons 705 a 705 b remote control 700 is also provided with a preset button 715 for setting and or recalling a preset value for light control from memory as more fully described above with respect to the operational sequence 500 of fig5 preferably preset button 715 is colored in stark contrast to the colors used for the remaining buttons and the remote control.