4 Smart Home Hacks That Make the Holiday Season Easier
Enjoy a Happier Holiday Season with Help from a Control4 Dealer
The bustle of the holiday season is nearly here! In fact, some residents in Dayton, OH and the surrounding areas may have already started planning for upcoming festivities, feasts, and family visits.
While the holidays are a joyful time of year, they can be equally stressful: Hosting guests, keeping up with around-the-clock deliveries, cooking food, and maintaining a comfortable home isn’t easy. Rather than juggling it all, let home automation take some duties off your shoulders.
A Control4 dealer can help ease the holiday madness by delivering a custom smart home system that offers simplified control of all your connected technology. Read below for four smart home hacks you can take advantage of this season with Control4 home automation!
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Never Miss a Delivery with Control4’s Chime Video Doorbell
Keeping up with package deliveries during the holidays is a job by itself. This season, curb your worry about porch pirates by putting in a Control4 Chime video doorbell. The Chime features a 5MP high-definition camera, night mode capability, and a 180-degree field of view for monitoring your porch and yard. Receive alerts when motion is detected so you’ll be the first to know when a package is delivered.
If the delivery person rings your doorbell, you can easily see, hear, and communicate with them from your smartphone or tablet. From the same interface, tap to unlock the door or open the garage so they can drop the package off indoors. When they leave, another quick tap locks up your home again.
Automate Climate Controls to Keep Everyone Comfortable
Opening blinds and adjusting thermostats every day—multiple times a day—is time-consuming. Plus, if you’re hosting guests, you might be adjusting the climate more often to keep everyone comfortable. By automating these settings, you can put more time back into your day and save energy, too.
When your motorized window treatments and thermostats are integrated with Control4, you can schedule when your blinds and shades open or close based on events or time of day. You can also set schedules and parameters for your thermostats so that your home’s temperature stays at a comfortable yet energy-efficient setting day and night.
Make Hosting a Breeze with One-Tap Scenes
One of the perks of having a Control4 system is personalizing smart home scenes as you see fit. Using Control4’s web-based When >> Then platform, you can adjust or add automation sequences to your home to set the mood for all your holiday festivities.
For example, create a scene called “Holiday” that turns on the fireplace, streams music on your multi-room audio system, sets the lights in your dining room to the perfect setting, and more! One-tap scenes transform your spaces in seconds, giving you more time to spend with family and friends.
Use Voice Commands When Your Hands Are Full
Whether you’re cooking in the kitchen, decorating the home, or wrapping gifts, it’s not always intuitive to stop what you’re doing to change the music or adjust the lights. In times like these, voice commands make managing your smart home so much easier!
When you integrate a voice assistant platform like Amazon Alexa with Control4, you can adjust lights, shades, thermostats, music, smart home scenes, and more with just a spoken command. Plus, home voice control makes it easy for family and guests to adjust devices to their liking as well.
When voice isn’t the best control method, Control4 offers other intuitive methods like wall keypads, a mobile app, and a universal remote. Controlling your smart home is always easy!
Have a happier, smoother holiday season with help from Control4. Want to bring Control4 automation to your home? Contact our certified Control4 dealers for a free consultation! Fill out our contact form or send us a message in the chat box below to get started.
