When you leave your home for an extended period, you need more than a quick check at the door—you need confidence that everything inside will operate exactly as it should. Vacation Mode is a feature in a home integration system that lets you press a single button to set multiple subsystems throughout your home to […]

Homeowners building or purchasing a home often have an interest in home integration. Still, it is not always clear what that actually includes. For years, there has been a common misconception that if a device connects to the internet or has an app, it qualifies as a smart home solution. In reality, those individual products […]

In the first two parts of this series, the focus centered on technology new homeowners may encounter when purchasing a house equipped with wiring, built-in audio systems, integrated lighting, shades, or automation. Many homes today include a mix of old and new technologies, sometimes installed at different times over many years. Without clarity on which […]