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Everything you need to know about smart home technology, home security systems, and home automation — from lighting and CCTV installation to networking, home theatre, and multi-room audio.
Smart Home Installation in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs: Heritage Homes, Terraces and Apartments
The Eastern Suburbs presents a problem you don't get in a new estate: the houses worth automating are frequently the ones hardest to automate. A Federation home in...
Whole-Home Wi-Fi: Why Mesh Networking Is a Must for Modern Smart Homes
Here's an uncomfortable truth about smart homes: when one goes wrong, it's almost never the automation that failed. It's the network underneath it. Cameras that drop...
Smart Home Automation on the Lower North Shore: Integrating Security, Lighting & Climate Control
Most homes we're called into on the Lower North Shore already have "smart" things in them. An alarm from one company. Ducted air conditioning with its own wall...
One Trade, Zero Delays: How Hyper Automation Simplifies Smart Home Installation for Builders
You know the version of this that goes wrong. The lighting control supplier quotes the gear but doesn't install it. The electrician runs the cable but won't program the...
Smart Lighting 101: How Automated Lighting Transforms a Sydney Home
Most people's first experience of smart lighting is a bulb they bought online. It connects to an app, changes colour, and after three weeks nobody uses it because...
Smart Home Security Installation for Northern Beaches Homes: A Local Guide to Coastal-Proof Automation
There is a specific failure we get called out to on the Northern Beaches more than anywhere else in Sydney. A camera installed two or three years ago, still powered,...
What Is a Smart Home? A Beginner’s Guide for Sydney Homeowners
Ask ten people what a smart home is and you'll get ten answers. A voice assistant on the kitchen bench. A video doorbell. An app that turns a lamp on. All of those are...