by Sam | Aug 28, 2026 | Smart Home
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 Woollahra with lath-and-plaster walls and pressed-metal ceilings. A Paddington terrace on a...
by Sam | Aug 28, 2026 | Networking and Wifi
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 out in bad weather. A touchscreen that spins loading. Music that stutters in the...
by Sam | Aug 28, 2026 | Smart Home
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 controller and its own app. Cameras from a security firm on a separate portal. A couple of...
by Sam | Aug 28, 2026 | Smart Home
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 system. The security firm needs their own rough-in and turns up two weeks after the...
by Sam | Aug 28, 2026 | Smart 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 pressing the switch is faster. That experience puts a lot of homeowners off, which is a shame —...
