by Sam | Sep 29, 2026 | Smart Home
A lot of Sydney homes built or renovated in the 2000s and 2010s had a smart home system put in: lighting control, a touchscreen in the kitchen, maybe a keypad by the bed that turns the whole house off. Fifteen years on, those systems are reaching the age where...
by Sam | Sep 29, 2026 | Smart Home
A smart home that stops working is more frustrating than an ordinary house that never worked that way. The lights will not respond to the keypad, the app says “unable to connect”, or the whole system goes quiet after a storm. If you would rather have...
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 | 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,...
