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Smart Home Devices vs. Whole Home Automation

Smart Home Devices vs. Whole Home Automation

We hear many misconceptions about the differences between whole home automation also known as a "Smart Home" and smart home devices like Alexa, Nest, and Google. If you think you can get a smart home by purchasing a device on Amazon or Best Buy, you might want to read...

10 Tips for Using Lighting to Design Your Outdoor Space

10 Tips for Using Lighting to Design Your Outdoor Space

Outdoor lighting used to mean flipping on the carport or house lights, or maybe turning on a security light on a pole. Those lights lit up the night, but in a harsh, and not always a useful or directed way. They tended to be unshielded and created a lot of unwelcome...

Home Automation Tips: Lighting Control for Your Home

Home Automation Tips: Lighting Control for Your Home

When people first think of home automation, they often think of lighting control. In fact, it’s one of the first smart home features people implement into their homes. And for good reason! Lighting control has many benefits – convenience, safety, and aesthetic being...

The Top Four Home Automation Features He’ll be Sure to Love

The Top Four Home Automation Features He’ll be Sure to Love

While May is all about the amazing mom’s out there, June is for the dad’s. You want a way to show your husband just how thankful you are for all he does, but you’re itching to do something different and more special this year. Chances are that you’ve probably heard...

5 Common Home Automation Mistakes

5 Common Home Automation Mistakes

More and more homeowners are beginning to implement home automation features into their homes. Whole home audio, climate control, keyless alarms – these features are meant to enhance your life and make things a whole lot simpler. It’s no wonder everyone wants a...

The Top Six Smart Home Features Buyers Want

The Top Six Smart Home Features Buyers Want

Smart home features used to be considered a luxury, and though they are still very luxurious, they’ve also become expected. Homeowners are adding features to their existing homes, while buyers are looking for them during the house hunt. Builders, architects and...

Get Fast Wi-Fi for the Holidays

Get Fast Wi-Fi for the Holidays

Give yourself the gift of amazing WiFi this holiday season! As your guests arrive and begin to overload your network with their phones, tablets, laptops and other gadgets, you need to be prepared. Here's a quick guide to making sure your network is in tip-top shape...

Control4 and Amazon Alexa Integration for Smart Home Voice Control

Control4 and Amazon Alexa Integration for Smart Home Voice Control

Anyone who’s tried the Amazon Echo and its voice service Alexa knows how simple and responsive its voice controls are. Uttering simple voice commands lets you handle all sorts of tasks, from playing music from your Pandora station to getting recipes read to you as you...

Apple TV: The hot holiday gift for 2015

Apple TV: The hot holiday gift for 2015

When many hear Apple TV, they imagine a sleek TV with a state-of-art operating system. Honest mistake. Actually, Apple TV is a small black box – weighing less than a pound – that uses a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) to connect to your television and WiFi...

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