SEE ALSO: What is Home Automation? MOTORIZED SHADES Adjusting your window shades is a simple enough task, but there’s no reason not to make it as easy as possible. With motorized shades and a Control4 system, all your shades can be controlled remotely from your phone or a touchpad, eliminating the need for manual adjustments. If you want even more

SEE ALSO: How You Can Benefit from Control4 Smart Home Automation CONTROL4 PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS Whole-home automation entails installing up to hundreds of different devices made from various manufacturers. Once all those devices are in place, they need to talk to each other. It’s vital that your home control system can mesh with all your devices

SEE ALSO: Why Control4 Is A Superior Choice For Smart Home Automation A Better Way to Cook in the Kitchen It’s hard to prepare and cook food when the lighting is bad. A poorly design lighting system in your kitchen also casts a pall over the entire room. Who wants to socialize in a kitchen that’s unwelcoming? Cast some light on the problem with au

SEE ALSO: How You Can Benefit From Control4 Smart Home Automation The Bedroom: Your Haven of Rest and Retreat One of the most impressive features of a smart home is the seamless control you have over your technologies: the lights, shades, music, and TV. Just think about it. How many times have you settled into bed when you realize you forgot to tu

Home automation is quickly becoming a buzz word in marketing for technology products.  Everything from thermostats, to lights, to alarm systems, and even appliances are now being controlled via our smartphones or our computers.  You’ve probably even seen major alarm and cable service providers pushing home automation systems lately.  Can you turn o

SEE ALSO: Promote Wellness at Home with Audio & Lighting What Does Josh.ai Do? If you’re unfamiliar with Josh.ai, you may be wondering why someone would choose it over other popular voice assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant. But Josh.ai was built and manufactured exclusively for smart home use. It can do much more than tell you

SEE ALSO: What is Home Automation? YOU’LL SAVE MONEY Everyone knows the saying “time is money.” When it comes to building or remodeling a home, retrofits or last-minute changes also cost money. Ripping out drywall in a home that’s nearly complete to add new wiring or devices is something you want to avoid. The best, simplest method to avoid issues

SEE ALSO: High-End AV Gifts He’ll Love for Valentine’s Day Control4’s Red Hot Neeo Remote  If you’re already a Control4 household, give her a red-hot way to control all her home devices. The Neeo remote (pictured above) is a sleek device that combines hard buttons and a touch screen for intuitive control of streaming servi

SEE ALSO: How You Can Benefit from Control4 Smart Home Automation THE KITCHEN There are a couple of gimmes for any kitchen when it comes to automation, and chances are you may have installed these systems in the home already: lighting control, whole-home audio, etc. These systems serve the same purpose everywhere in a home. One way to make them wo

SEE ALSO: What Is Home Automation? Let There Be Light – Automatically! Personalize your lights – how bright they are; when they turn off; how they interface with you. When you install a robust, smart light control system in your home, you’ll give your rooms and outside spaces a lighting makeover. Whether you want something as practical as programm

SEE ALSO: From Morning ‘Til Night, Set The Perfect Mood With Smart Lighting Amazon Alexa Pros: Amazon’s Alexa is compatible with thousands of smart devices, including a Control4 smart system. Alexa is relatively simple to integrate with Control4. The 4Sight subscription enables Alexa voice support and will let you personalize commands and scenes.

SEE ALSO: Behind the Scenes: How We Install Control4 Smart Systems Free Giveaways for #C4Yourself Month The Offer & How to Enter Control4 dealers nationwide are offering one free smart home kit to anyone who participates in #C4Yourself. All you need to do is RSVP here with First Priority Audio and attend one of our info sessions, and you could

SEE ALSO: Stuck at Home? Bring Entertainment into the Backyard #C4Yourself Facebook Live Events Throughout May, we’ll be hosting Facebook Live events to demonstrate the latest in Control4 automation right from our Pompano Beach location. Like and follow us on Facebook for more information on event times and details.    May 14th Event:  Security an

A study conducted by Coldwell Banker and CNET in August of last year found that 28% of homes in the US have smart home devices… And that number is only going to grow in our opinion. But what is a smart home device really… and how smart are these devices? Are we talking Skynet from Terminator or more like Jarvis from Ironman?  We are still years awa

Have you ever experienced first hand a fully automated home? You know... where you walk into a house, press one button by the door, and magically the lights turn on, the music system starts playing your favorite station, and your alarm is disarmed? A true smart home allows you to integrate multiple parts of the home into one system, so you have one

SEE ALSO: How You Can Benefit from Control4 Smart Home Automation HIDING YOUR TV Whether you’ve opted for a screen and projector or use a TV, your display is the largest piece of your home A/V system. The significant size of your display often makes it the most challenging element to conceal in your home. Of course, there’s an easy solution if you

SEE ALSO: How You Can Benefit from Control4 Smart Home Automation HOME THEATER NECESSITIES A 4K UHD-resolution TV or projector offers the best image quality for your home theater. We also recommend choosing a display that incorporates High-Dynamic Range imaging, or HDR. Displays with HDR technology offer greater color contrast and create a more vi

SEE ALSO: 3 Powerful Benefits of Smart Home Lighting Control SEEING THE LIGHT A quick refresher on the benefits of smart lighting, in general, is in order. With warm-dimming LEDs and tunable white lights, Lutron lighting control gives you nearly infinite colors to choose from for any space in your home. Lutron lighting control harnesses light to h

SEE ALSO: How Integrators Help Builders Create Better Smart Homes MORE CUSTOMIZATION With OS 3, Control4 has made it easier than ever to customize the system to suit any customer’s needs. Families can now select distinct backgrounds in the Control4 app for every room in their house. They can upload their own photos, or they can choose from among C

SEE ALSO: Prepare for a New School Year with a Home Network Upgrade CABLE TV ALTERNATIVES Cutting ties with your cable company isn’t as fraught as it used to be. There’s been a boom in video streaming services, from Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon to YouTube, HBO, and Disney. For dedicated cinephiles, there are also niche services like Criterion (for ol