How to Get Started with Ketra Lighting Control

Are you looking for a way to upgrade your home’s lighting system? If so, you may be considering Ketra lighting control. This cutting-edge technology offers many benefits, including energy savings, increased convenience, and enhanced security. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to get started with Ketra lighting control. We’ll cover everything from preparing for installation to maximizing your benefits with advanced features. So if you’re ready to take your home’s lighting to the next level, read on!

Benefits of Ketra Lighting Control.

Ketra Lighting Control is a system that allows you to control the lighting in your home or business from a central location. You can use it to turn lights on and off, dim them, change their color, and even create programs and schedules.

Discover the Magic of Lutron Shades! 

Are you looking for a way to upgrade the look and feel of your home? Look no further than Lutron shades! Lutron shades are the perfect way to give your home a modern touch and make it a more comfortable and convenient place to live. In this blog post, we’ll explore the many benefits of installing Lutron shades and how they can help to make your home more stylish and energy efficient. We’ll also discuss the various types of Lutron shades available and how to choose the right one for your home. Finally, we’ll talk about how to install, operate, and get the most out of your Lutron shades. Let’s get started!

The mood and tone of your home can be set with lighting. The Lutron system is the leader in smart control, providing much more than just on-off or color changes; it allows you to create custom scenes for each occasion from dinner party ambiance all throughout holidays celebrations - even sleeping time!

The question many new clients ask about this service is? Why would they want something like that at their house...but within our blog post today we'll dive into why indoor illumination might improve any living space inside yours as well!

What are the benefits of creating scenes with Lutron? 

The revolutionizing Lutron system can allow homeowners to control their lights and shades from anywhere and have an automated routine set up with different settings for everyone’s preferences. For example, if you want your recessed lighting lowered by 30% brightness while upstairs stairs are brought down almost halfway so they're not too bright on entering onto this floor but rather warm & welcoming - all without ever having to tire yourself running around adjusting lights and moving furniture around just because we know sometimes our hands get tired after working long hours at desks jobs! These preprogrammed scenes allow us great freedom over how much energy is used during certain times of the day or even seasons.

What if you could provide your home with its own soundtrack? With in-ceiling speakers, you can!

We work closely with interior designers, and we have noticed an increase in their interest in In-ceiling speakers for their clients' lifestyle technology combined with a preference for the aesthetic of decluttering. Imagine walking into your ocean-front home and seeing a clean crisp fresh space without any harsh lines on the ceiling. With the high demand for invisible speakers, we offer multiple brands which allow us to support a variety of budgets and styles designers may prefer for their vision.

Amina has set the bar for invisible speakers with the inventions of VPT (Vibrational Panel Technology), Amina has been able to take the standard speaker design and replace the cone with a flat panel. This allows the sound to use small vibrations to generate sound that can be heard and not seen. Compared to the typical cone, which can visibly show it moving forward and backward. This modification allows for seamless integration of any loudspeaker onto any surface.

Stealth Acoustics is an American-made product we offer that can be a perfect fit for a private home theater. Within their model LR8G it is a two-way, full-range loudspeaker system that becomes completely invisible after installation. This brand can also be covered by wallpaper or fabric which interior designers enjoy keeping options open for their creative design.

Technology to deliver an even, balanced sound experience of Sonance Invisible speakers is designed to disappear and offer 170 degrees of dispersion in all directions. Within the Sonance speaker, it has motion flex technology which is engineered for an unparalleled acoustic speaker. An air flex woofer is a glass fiber woofer coupled to an acoustically inert diaphragm to move a pocket of air like a piston for powerful bass.

Imagine walking into your living room with the beautiful Florida Ocean Front views, and the sound of your favorite song flowing throughout the space. Whole home audio makes it simple. But if you aren’t a fan of the appearance of a bulk speaker hanging from the wall James Loudspeaker offers small aperture series. These speakers give a look that’s aesthetically pleasing with fixtures and were engineered with the focus of minimizing their visual presence for interior or landscape designs.

Offering an array of speakers allows us to stay diverse and not have to try and shove a speaker in a home that’s not desired. During the consultation process, we enjoy discussing the vision of the project and its overall goal and delivering the right fit for the client.

Enjoy being hands-off when you work with Technology Expert for your next project. 

When working with a A/V expert you can trust your will be experiencing white glove concerige style of services from design to completion. Audio One provides consistent communication to vendors, architects and builders team to reflect a seamless collaboration. The key to success is communication and take pride in collaborating with the best in the industry. 

 

If you’re considering building a new home or undergoing a home renovation, and you’d like to include a smart home system, don’t wait until construction is complete to makeshift your own smart home solutions with products you can pick up from your local electronic store. Many homeowners tend to think of electronics for smart homes as an afterthought like furniture, and fixtures.

But for the ultimate solution, smart home technology should be brought in at the beginning of construction. Ensure you have proper wiring pulled throughout the residence to ensure accurate coverage.

Our home automation company works alongside architects and interior designers to appropriately plan where wiring and technology systems should go. Working alongside other trades allows us to ensure a cohesive flow of your residence. We help develop stunning smart houses in Los Angeles, CA, and cities around the world.

When someone says safe room, what do you picture a room with a high-security door, with walls made from steel or ballistic wall armor? 

The image of a saferoom has been redesigned to represent a relaxing safe haven in your home. An extraordinary entrance that camouflages the entry point. There can be lights, radio, heat, air conditioning, a built-in security system, or even a private home theater within the room. Above all, a special room for you to keep your valuables in and provide a safe space for you and your family to hide in case of an emergency. Saferooms are meant to be accessible in a time of panic They can be used to store important documents and act as a multifunctional room representing a place for relaxation.

A movie theater, converted from a safe room, in a six-bedroom home in Pacific Palisades, California, listed with Farah Levi of The Agency. 

Crime is certainly on the rise, specifically in the California metropolitan areas, and high-profile murders and robberies in high-net-worth neighborhoods like Beverly Hills, hidden rooms are becoming a popular trend.

Patios are a unique space that can provide ultimate relaxation, “a safe haven”, and can transform by illuminating the space and allow the lighting to set the mood. It can be the place where you host all your children’s birthday parties, your annual holiday parties, or a relaxing oasis to stargaze while floating in your pool.

A patio is limitless in design, you should know that smart technology can bring a space to life. Many people tend to hold a stigma against technology and the outdoors. The truth however is that you can automate even the smallest necessities in your backyard, from lightbulbs to sprinklers, to AV systems and heating or cooling solutions, 

Just to give you a glimpse of what smart home automation can do for you, we present the following ideas:

Lighting assists with setting the mood and tone for a home. Lutron is the leader in smart lighting control. The capabilities of this lighting system provide much more than turning lights on and off or changing the colors. Lutron allows integrators to develop custom lighting scenes, we preset the lighting fixtures to adjust on command of one press of a button. Revealing the precise mood and tone for your evening.

Sounds easy enough, the question many ask is when would you use them? Within this blog, we will dive into how easy it is to adjust scenes. Explain the value of having them in an estate and share some helpful scene ideas.

HOW CAN YOU CONTROL THEM?

There are many ways to control your scenes. Many people choose to use their smartphones, as their main controller they always have their devices within arm’s reach thanks to the Lutron mobile app. We highly recommend having at least one tablet device in the main relaxation area of the home and always having one at the entryway. There are many options for scattering devices around the home, such as wireless remotes, wall control panels, and other unique designs. Do you enjoy being hands-free? That’s easy for us to make happen! We can use voice control by saying “Good Morning” with platforms like Josh Ai and Alexa to preset commands to have your home turn hands-free.

Lighting Control

Imagine your exterior landscape lighting promptly turning on automatically at dusk to present your beautiful architectural features of your residence. Inside, your residence you will immediately see your custom-engraved on-wall keypad to dim the room to a custom programmed scene that helps you relax and decompress from a long day. That’s not your only scene for your home if you’re hosting a party simple change your lights with a mere press of a button to enjoy a lively array of colors bringing life to the party. If you’re someone who tends to be away from a residence for a substantial amount of time, you can program smart lighting to turn on and off on a predetermined schedule to look like someone’s home despite being gone. Your residence will shine from the inside out.  

A Stronger Wifi Signal

The backbone of every smart home system is the network. Audio One can wire your home and design a network to support all your connected devices. Our networking specialists are proficient in providing clients enterprise level networks for their residences. Many people don’t realize when you host an event at home everyone’s smart phone device may be linking to your networking, so you don’t want to experience dropped lighting controls or music when you’re hosting an event. At Audio One we believe in provide superior level of networks to prevent our clients’ devices from dropping offline during a major event or conference call.

TAILORED USER EXPERIENCE

Crestron believes that the heart of control is the user experience. Through their development of Crestron OS 3.9, the operating system behind Crestron Home, they put the user first and designed a game changing app that’s more responsive, easily customized, and user-friendly than ever before.

From your smartphone or a dedicated Crestron touch panel, you’ll enjoy a seamless room-based experience, with all devices in that room available at your fingertips. See the status of every room immediately, tap on a room to adjust, or access custom room and whole-home scenes at the top of the screen to quickly set everything the way you want it at any time.

MORE CUSTOMIZATION

Add a personal touch to your system by using photos of your home to appear on the displays—you can even add personal photos specific to each room and have the ability to . There is also a great feature called Room Favorites which allows you to select your most frequently used rooms to display at the top of your rooms list for quick and convenient access. The Quick Action menu displays features you frequently use so there’s no need to scroll through numerous menus.
The newest feature to Crestron Home is perpetual innovation for refined pool control. Instead of only showing pools in locations, i.e. rooms, they now also display at the house level. Crestron Home natively supports Jandy®, Hayward®, and Pentair® pool controllers, with many more being developed. 

HOW TO ELEVATE YOUR MOVIE WATCHING EXPERIENCE

Experience Hollywood blockbuster at home with friends, instead of experiencing interruptions of cell phone light illuminating every 5 minutes. Get ready to indulge in an evening in your plush seating snuggled up with a big bowl of popcorn watching your favorite actors and actresses on your private big screen. 

Smart Home Automation adds convenience, time management, and peace of mind.

The most common questions new homeowners ask during the build process is why should we turn our home into a smart home? Can we turn our existing home into a smart home? What are the advantages of an automated home? Can my family members use the equipment easily? And is an automated smart home really worth the investment? The answer is YES! 

In today's Real estate market homes are selling for top dollar, even over the asking price! This can be a great addition to assist with increasing your home's resale value and creating a wow factor every time someone walks through the door; a smart home can provide owners the incredible benefit that make it well worth the investment.