Motorized shades are an incredibly convenient smart home solution. You might think of them as a luxury, but when you discover how they play with other intelligent solutions in your home, you see that it goes well beyond a powered convenience.

One of the great advantages of motorized shades is how they make it easy to manage and control light in your South Carolina home. It should come as no surprise that some of the best motorized shading solutions come from Lutron, a company whose entire focus is on the intelligent management and control of lighting for both residential and commercial applications.

In this blog, we’ll explore some of Lutron’s motorized shade solutions, and why they're an excellent fit for your Greenville home.

Designing a whole-home audio and smart home control system on the cheap is a difficult proposition. To get the quality and detailed level of control you want, you’ll most likely have to spend a fair amount of money on advanced smart home technology.

However, there is a new solution from Origin Acoustics that offers the convenience of voice-controlled automation and the power of smart home control: The Valet amplifier. The Valet amp combines Origin’s proven speaker design capabilities with an easy-to-use control system powered a group of Amazon Echo Dots. How does this work, and why would Sunset, SC, homeowners want it for their home control system? You’ll have to keep reading to find out.

Think, for a moment, about all of the technology components that go into your home theater.

There are lights, your projector, an audio/video receiver, speakers and perhaps so much more – like media-streaming devices, cable or satellite boxes, Blu-ray players and even video game systems.

Then consider how you have to operate each device independently. It’s a time-consuming and inefficient process.

It’s understandable how you might even think readying your home cinema for a movie can be a nuisance. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

When you partner with a professional home theater installation expert, you can add a custom control system to manage the technology in your Greenville, South Carolina home cinema.

What does that mean, and how can it enhance your viewing experience? Just keep reading to find out!