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Consider a Control4 Smart Home for Better Health

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Let a Control4 Dealer Show You a More Holistic Way of Living 

Transforming your home into a smart space goes beyond technology and convenience. Enhancing your family’s overall well-being is possible thanks to Control4. The brand is a top-in-class provider of home automation solutions, elevating properties to new levels of comfort with automated lighting, climate control, security, and more, all managed via remote, tablet, voice commands, and smartphone apps.

Continue reading to learn how a Control4 dealer like Digital Home Systems can rejuvenate your Greenwich, CT, lifestyle.

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Bring Beauty to Your Home with Layered Lighting

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Combine the Latest Lighting Design with Home Lighting Automation

Lighting is a critical element in a home’s design. It adds another dimension, accentuates your home’s best features, and sets the perfect stage for life’s daily tasks and activities. With the right lighting, you can create spaces of incredible beauty and even enhance your well-being. 

Creating layers of light is the secret, and home lighting automation makes managing this lighting effortless. As the internationally recognized interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard said, “Lighting is everything. It creates atmosphere, drama, and intrigue in a room.” 

Let’s explore the makings of beautiful lighting and how it’s transforming homes in Westport, CT.

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Setting Scenes and Schedules for Your Smart Home System

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These Automated Functions Make Controlling Your Smart Home Effortless

At Digital Home Systems, we specialize in creating customized smart homes that offer convenience, comfort, and the ultimate in entertainment. To accomplish this, we partner with Control4, a brand long regarded as a world leader in smart home systems

Their home automation platform offers one-touch control of lighting, climate, entertainment, security, and more. In addition, because Control4 is an open platform, it integrates with nearly every smart device, enabling the ultimate personalization. 

Scenes and schedules are two Control4 features that make our clients’ everyday lives easier, more enjoyable, and more fun. Let’s explore these automated powerhouses and what they offer homeowners in Greenwich, CT. 

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Control4 Is Better Than Ever!

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Check Out What’s New for the World’s Leading Automation System Right Now and in 2023

For new and prospective smart home owners, there is no better automation system than Control4. Control4’s customizable, user-friendly interfaces seamlessly integrate AV, lighting and security systems. From temperature control to motorized shades, the home of your dreams is always a screen tap away.

At Digital Home Systems, we are the leading Control4 installers and integrators in Darien, CT. As such, we couldn’t be more excited about sharing with you what the global leader in home automation has in store for the coming months. Here is what’s new for Control4 through 2022 and 2023 and what it means for the future of your new or existing smart home technology systems. 

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Home Security Systems Protect from Internal And External Dangers

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A good home security system does more than keep burglars out of your Greenwich, Connecticut home.

How many ways can you keep your Greenwich, Connecticut home safe and secure? With a home security system from Digital Home Systems, there are several innovative options. From lights to door locks to cameras, plus alarm systems and easy access from a smartphone or tablet, you can keep your home protected even when you aren’t there.

Read on to learn more about all the creative ways to safeguard your home, and why Digital Home Systems is the right company to work with.

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Is Your Smart Home Ready for the Holidays?

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Home Automation Brings Peace of Mind and Ease of Living to the Holiday Season

It’s hard to imagine, but, yes, the holidays are right around the corner, bringing peace, good cheer, lots of to-dos, and a little extra stress. Whether the holiday season gets you giddy with excitement or sends chills down your back, a Control4 home automation system can help. Let’s look at how whole-home control helps families in Fairfield County, NY, make it through another holiday season.

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4 Worth-It Reasons to Add Outdoor Audio to Your Backyard

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Maximize Your Outdoor Spaces in Every Season with Music 

When warmer seasons come knocking, many homeowners look forward to giving their backyards a makeover. Sometimes upgrades are as minor as picking out new patio furniture and grooming the gardens. But if you’re planning for a big backyard transformation, you can’t forget about the music. 

While no one would argue against the benefits of enjoying music outside, some may wonder if investing in a dedicated outdoor audio system is worth it. Can’t you just bring out any old speakers from inside? What if outdoor speakers ruin the look of your landscaping? Will they be a hassle to operate? We curtail these concerns below.

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Why an Integrator is Vital for Your Lighting Installation

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Bring a Professional Early in the Process to Ensure Greater Efficiency and Performance

We see a common theme in a lot of the lighting installations we get asked to do. A homeowner does the natural thing and discusses their lighting design with their architects and designers. A conventional plan gets put into place and construction begins, but then the homeowner realizes that they may want to add some automated features. That is often when there is a conversation about hiring a custom integrator to look at the lighting design and other smart home technologies. The majority of the time, we wish we had been brought into the design process earlier.

Now, we as the custom integrator have to recommend a number of technologies into an existing plan while hoping that the electricians have not done too much of the initial wiring. To fully integrate smart lighting features, we revise the lighting plan based on the smart lighting system the Owners choose. If we get involved after the electrician has started wiring, then the clients’ lighting choices are already significantly limited.

Getting an integrator into the process early will mean a more cohesive design and a lighting installation that meets all of your performance expectations. Below are just some of the reasons that we should be brought in from the start for any projects we work on in Greenwich, CT, or the surrounding area.SEE MORE: Explore the Comfort and Convenience of Motorized Shades by Lutron

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Top Benefits of a Smart Home Security System

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Prioritize Your Family’s Safety by Integrating Your Security System with Control4

Whether you are gone for just a few hours or away on a week-long vacation, you may often find yourself thinking about the safety of your home. Even while you are home, it can be hard not to stress over your family’s protection as they sleep. However, you can rest assured that what matters most to you will be kept safe and sound when you have a smart home security system in place.

By integrating your security system with your Control4 home automation system, you will have peace of mind whether you are at home or away. Explore the benefits of a connected home security system by reading below.

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How a Control4 Lighting Automation System Simplifies Security

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Keep the Lights on for a Safer Home

Whether you’re trying to avoid tripping over shoes left at the foot of the stairs or illuminating the perimeter of your property, lights can help make your nights a little safer. Featuring both indoor and outdoor solutions, Control4 Smart Lighting can brighten up your home with ease. Thanks to centralized control, customizable configurations, When >> Then personalization, and more, you’ll never have to walk into a dark room or yard again.

How can Control4 keep your Rye, NY home safe? In this blog, we’ll explore the important role your lighting automation system plays in the safety and security of your home.

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Can Your Security System Do These Things?

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Control4 Smart Home Security Delivers True Peace of Mind

Everyone wants to feel safe in their homes.  A recent survey by real estate firm Coldwell Banker revealed that homebuyers were highly interested in smart security features.  70% of respondents said they wanted smart fire and carbon monoxide detectors in their next home.  Over 60% of the people surveyed were found to be interested in having smart locks, smart lighting, and smart surveillance cameras installed before they moved in.  

This kind of data would indicate that homeowners are motivated to use newer technology to keep tabs on their homes and make sure that their homes, possessions, and loved ones are safe. So, if that old-style alarm system with the timed beeps for arming, the inconvenient control pads, and the sensors that inadvertently go off at random aren’t going to cut it, what are consumers looking for?

They’re looking to be aware and be informed at all times about what’s going on at their home. But beyond alerts and viewing a video feed from a security camera, they want a system that is flexible, as well as proactive in its ability to react to potential incidents. 

A Control4 smart home security system has the power and intelligence needed to take your Harrison, NY home’s security to the next level.  Read on to learn about the security features that can deliver true peace of mind. 

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Smart Technology is A Smart Investment

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How a Control4 Smart Home System Adds Value

According to a recent study by real estate website Zillow, home values have recently been rising at an 7.7% clip in the United States. While real estate values do not grow in a straight line, home ownership has often been viewed as an investment that builds value over time, with the added benefit of having a place to live tailored to your lifestyle.

Over 50% of homeowners plan to spend money on home improvement projects, which are great ways to customize your space to your lifestyle and aesthetic taste, and also increase a property’s resale value. Beyond bathroom and kitchen makeovers, wall and floor finishes and other popular improvements, smart home technology should also be a top consideration.

Why? A recent Houzz survey found that nearly half of renovating homeowners are adding smart systems to their homes, indicating very high interest in smart technology as an important feature desired in a new dwelling. 

With these current trends, read on to find out how Control4 Smart Home technology can not only enhance your lifestyle in Pound Ridge, NY, but it can also add to your home’s resale value. 

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It’s All About the Light

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Lighting Control Enhances the Beauty of Your Home

Professional photographers obsess about optimizing the lighting in their pictures. If a photo shoot is outdoors in natural light, the amount, the shadows, and the exposure are all critical to getting great shots. Indoors, photographers use different types of flashes, or they use specific lighting for posed pictures. 

Think of your home as a photo shoot.  With the right lighting, you can set just the ambiance you want—for cooking, eating, relaxing, entertaining, sleeping or any other endeavor. But beyond making it bright or dark enough for an activity, the right lighting can highlight the aesthetic appeal of your living space. 

What’s the best way to do that?  A Control4 lighting system can set just the right scene, deftly blending light and shadow just like a professional photographer. Read on for ways to make your home look like a perfect lit composition, day or night.

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Control4 is the Conductor of Your Smart Home Orchestra

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The Right System Improves Your Whole Life

If you are looking at smart home technology options around Darien, CT, you may run into a fair amount of hyperbole. There are smart devices that all but promise to change your life, thermostats that know when you’re home and when you’re not, and lights that can turn into a rainbow of colors. All of those devices may do wonderful, innovative things, but do any of those things by themselves make your life better? 

A smart home may have many smart devices. You have probably heard of many of them; smart thermostats, smart lighting, smart security cameras, smart locks, and many others. You may even have one or two of them, like a Nest thermostat. Beyond having remote control of a device via an app, the way these devices start making your life easier is when they all start working together to fit the way you live—demanding less of your attention, automating routine functions, and making time available for more important things. 

That’s where Control4 smart home automation comes in. It orchestrates all your smart devices into a cohesive, manageable system that works for you.

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The Future Is Here with Control4 Smart Home Automation

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How Does Smart Home Technology Change Your Life?

Do you dream of the ease and convenience found in the Jetsons’ futuristic home? The 1962 series featured the home of 2062, with space-age appliances that made food and flying cars. We’re not quite there yet when it comes to flying cars, but even the Jetsons might be impressed at some of the smart technology we have today.

From lights that automate to your every wish to personalized home entertainment settings at the touch of a button, the Control4 smart homesolutions provide tried and true smart home technology that is definitelyworthy of being labeled “the future.”

Experience for yourself some Jetsons-style smart home automation, available right now, for your home in Bedford, NY. No need to wait until 2062! Simply submit your comment or question in chat box at the bottom of your screen and a Certified Showroom Professional will respond.

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Curious About Smart Home Technology? Seeing is Believing!

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See Smart Home Automation in Action at a Control4 Certified Showroom

Often when you’re interested in a product or technology, you turn to the internet. You Google a product to see reviews, look up technical specifications, and read articles about features and tests. However, when it comes to smart home automation, it can be hard to take abstract specs and turn them into a complete understanding of the everyday solutions that smart tech offers.

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