Knowing whether to go with a DIY smart home installation or a professional one can be difficult. Though there are a lot of differences between the two, there’s one major distinction to consider for your Scarsdale, NY, home. DIY installations usually revolve around individual smart devices, with a separate app needed for each. Home automation systems, on the other hand, bring all devices within one central platform.

In this blog, we'll highlight some of the most significant benefits of a one-app smart home and the unique cases when it might not be the right choice. Streamlining your smartphone's home screen is only one of the reasons you may want to move away from a DIY installation.

In today’s world, lighting control is so much more than the traditional on/off switch. You can dim lights, you can install custom keypads, you can automate lights and you even can control them from your smartphone or tablet. Of course, in order to experience these newer ways of taking advantage of your home lighting, you need to upgrade to smart lighting control.

As Westchester County’s leading installer of smart lighting control system solutions, our team at Westchester Audio/Video Design Group has gained insight into how much smart lighting control genuinely can elevate your property and your lifestyle.

In this blog, we share three of the most significant advantages of upgrading to smart lighting control at your New York property based on our experience helping local homeowners just like you.

Keep reading below to find out more.

Just days ago, Control4 announced a brand-new operating system for its industry-leading home control systems: the Control4 OS 3. The newest Control4 OS builds upon its previous, easy-to-maneuver user interface and takes it to the next level; providing homeowners with added convenience in using their Control4 smart home.

OS 3 delivers more than a thousand new features to your system, including but not limited to, a brand-new and refined interface as well as the option to select favorite rooms so you can easily access your most-used scenes. But that only scratches the surface of what OS 3 has to offer!

Want to find out more about this new operating system from Control4 and how you can update your existing Control4 smart home here in the Fairfield County, Connecticut area and beyond to OS 3 with the help of Westchester Audio/Video Design Group?

Keep reading the sections below to find out more.