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A Sleek & Stylish Interface Creates an Accessible Smart Home

Smart home automation elevates every aspect of your day spent throughout your Dallas, TX property. From top-notch solutions that provide comfort and convenience to smart security solutions that can protect your entire premises – there are smart home components to benefit everyone and every part of your home. 

And while a smart home can create the ultimate environment for you and your family, managing its technologies should never be a hassle! High-end smart home control lets every family member and guest feel at ease operating your systems – and Savant’s sleek interface ensures zero frustrations.

Want to learn more about this high-quality brand’s interface and how our team can bring this setup to your smart home today? Just keep reading on below.

Learn How a Smart System Can Transform Your Everyday Routine

Does smart home automation sound like a futuristic concept to you? Admittedly, a home that works in your favor day in and day out does sound like something you’d see in a sci-fi film – but these ideas are no longer stuck behind the screen or in your favorite books. Smart home systems and solutions make your everyday routine a luxurious experience with just a tap of a button.

From morning to evening, these innovative technologies reshape your entire lifestyle and transform your Highland Park, TX home. Want to find out more? Keep reading on below.

Streamline Your Day with a Cohesive Smart Home Setup

Smart home automation eases up every part of your daily life at home. While smart technologies are incredibly beneficial, they are really only as good as the brand that makes them – and Control4 is a trusted and highly-regarded company in the home automation industry.

In this blog, we’ll dive into how Control4 creates a custom and centralized smart home automation system for your Dallas, TX property. Transform your day-to-day lifestyle with this expansive and reliable system! Keep reading on below to learn more about this essential smart setup.

From Morning to Evening, This Trusted Brand Delivers a Fully Integrated Smart Home

Smart home automation is here to simplify your whole day! When your home has innovative and trusted solutions from Control4, you enjoy a system that meets your every need at any time of the day.

Incorporate smart technologies into your daily routine, and you’ll find that time at home is more easily enjoyed and streamlined. Keep reading below to learn how a Control4 smart home automation system transforms your Southlake, TX, property and everyday lifestyle.

Check Out How this System Enhances Your Home & Lifestyle

Smart home automation should never be too complicated to handle for anyone in your family. The whole point of a smart home system is to simplify your day and meet your every need. Crestron is a reliable and trusted brand in the industry – and this is their overall goal for each system and technology they offer.

The Crestron Home is a system to depend on for every innovative solution and setup you can imagine. For a streamlined smart home experience that brings convenience, entertainment, and more to your whole University Park, TX, property – look no further than this residential Crestron system.

Want to find out more about the Crestron Home and all it has to offer? Keep reading below.

Bring Convenience & Luxury to Your Daily Lifestyle

While the holiday season can feel stressful, especially during this unique year, now is the perfect time to bring smart home automation to your Southlake, TX living space. For added convenience, comfort, safety, and overall luxury, a smart home system can elevate your life not only during the holidays but all year long. No one knows how long social distancing recommendations will last, so why not make your home feel more like a sanctuary that’s not only functional but elegant and reliable?

Want to find out the top benefits of a system’s solutions? Smart home technologies have endless features to simplify your routine and elevate your whole property. Keep reading below for more!

If you’re considering new, innovative technologies for your smart home automation system, voice control might not be high on your list as of late. This solution can feel a bit too futuristic at first – why would you need this added feature? What can it do for daily life in your Dallas, TX home?

In this blog, we’ll dive into how voice control from Amazon’s Alex can elevate your entire automation system. Make every day easier than ever at home by just saying a few simple words to get things done and have your whole property at your command.

Want to learn how Alexa can benefit you and your family? Keep reading below.

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Elevate Smart Home Security

Keeping your family safe and secure is your top priority, always. So how can you avoid making your home security a complicated, compromised aspect of your system? Smart surveillance cameras throughout your property, smart locks in exteriors and interiors, and burglar/fire safety alarms all create a safer space for you and your family. And with Alexa, you can check on every smart feature with just a few words.

Since 2002, DeVance has been installing audio, video, and smart home automation systems in homes in the Dallas, Texas area. We desire to be your personal electronic lifestyle concierge, designing and installing systems in your spaces that adds convenience, safety, and luxury to your everyday life. Our systems are easy to use and can be tailored to your exact specifications. Continue reading to discover what our team has to offer.

What does it mean to have an electronic lifestyle?

Living an electronic lifestyle doesn’t mean that you have high-end electronics in your home, like fancy home theater systems and surround sound – or that you can turn the lights on with your phone. It means that your smart home matches your schedule, tastes, and can actually mirror your daily routines. It also means that all of your electronics are connected so that you can start or stop actions by hitting one button. There are many home electronics today that have apps you can download on your phone, but what if you could combine all those apps into one system, hit one button and your home will adjust just as you like it? Imagine coming home after work, driving into the garage and as you walk in the whole house audio system turns on your favorite playlist, the lights turn on, and the thermostat adjusts to a comfortable 73. All of those actions can be triggered by timers, by a motion sensor as you walk in, or by the garage door opening.

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Getting that perfect gift for friends and family is a challenge. If you’re at a loss for what gifts to buy this holiday season, we’re here to help. As Southlake, Texas’ smart home automation experts, we stay on top of the latest trends in tech devices. This gift buying guide covers the best smart tech for both current smart home owners and people considering upgrading their homes.

For Current Smart Home Owners

If the person you’re trying to buy for already has a smart home, then they’ve probably already got a full set of gadgets and controls for every room. But don’t fret! Unless their smart home system was installed very recently, there’s one component they probably don’t have yet: voice control. Amazon Echo and Echo Dot are small devices that are easy to add to existing smart home systems, allowing you to control your home using just your voice!

In addition to asking Alexa’s normal capabilities, you can use the voice-controlled interface to initiate different smart home “scenes” that have saved settings for the best lighting, music, temperature, etc. for any given activity. For example, as you leave home each morning, just say “Alexa, turn on ‘Away.’” In response, your home’s lights will turn off, the shades will close, the music will stop, and your smart security system will lock the doors and turn on the alarm.

SEE ALSO: Explore What It Means to Live with Smart Home Automation

For Homeowners Just Getting Started

As wonderful as a full smart home automation system is, you don’t need all the bells and whistles right off the bat. To help friends and family dip their toes into the convenience and comfort that smart technology has to offer, consider getting an individual device that works great on its own but can also become part of a full automation system in the future. In addition to Amazon Echo, here are some other great devices:

An effective and reliable smart home automation solution has a lot of pieces and parts all working together to add convenience and comfort to your home. One often overlooked aspect of this complex system is the home network. In this blog, we discuss three aspects of home networking that are vitally important for ensuring your smart home operates smoothly, whether you’re in Highland Park or another Texas area.

SEE ALSO: Explore What it Means to Live with Smart Home Automation

Speed

The speed of your home network is directly tied to the speed of your devices. Each piece of equipment might say it can reach lightning fast speeds, but if your network is throttling your bandwidth, your smart home automation system will never operate at full performance.  DeVance can optimize your home network and remove the obstacles that are causing network throttling. By streamlining your home network, your devices will be able to reach their full speed capabilities.

Reliability

When you’re streaming television shows on Netflix or watching a movie in your dedicated home theater, you’ll be able to enjoy the entire show without any lagging or delays in audio or video. However, 4K streaming requires a lot of bandwidth, and your network simply may not be up to the task.  Often, the source of video lagging during streaming is a lack of strong Wi-Fi. DeVance can install wireless access points at strategic locations throughout your home to ensure that each smart device has a strong and reliable Internet connection.

Scalability

Your home network needs to be ready not only for today’s technology, but also for tomorrow’s. You don’t want to be one step behind the latest smart home automation technology simply because your home network isn’t capable of supporting more devices. Using the latest standards and advances in home networking technology will ensure that whenever you want to upgrade your smart home automation system, your network won’t hold you back.

What do you want the focal point of your home to be? To draw attention to a piece of art, a beautiful rug, or an antique chair you need to eliminate the distractions. In the interior design world, technology tends to be an obstacle. Designers are always trying to hide all of the tech since it can be an eyesore. Too many switches will create “wall acne” and cords, wires, or unsightly black boxes don’t exactly match the theme for your McKinney, Texas home. In this blog, we will focus on how to make certain elements of your lights and shades disappear with smart home automation. Keep reading to learn all about it. 

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Smart Shades

For this part of your home you won’t be hiding the roller fabric, or drapes, you’ll be hiding the motor that moves the shades up and down. Some motorized shade companies install a big box on the top of the window, which can look like a giant obstruction on the wall. To solve this issue, DeVance hides the motor in an enclosure—which is like a pocket inside the wall. You won’t see the motor or wires at all, instead everything is hidden and your family can focus on the beautiful fabric over the window. Smart shading also eliminates those hanging cords used to adjust the curtains. Instead, you’ll use a small remote control or your mobile device to open or chose them.

Smart Lighting

At DeVance, we like to create the perfect gift guide for all the special people inyour life. Now is the best time to get started, and we have compiled a list of the latest tech-savvy productsthat you, your spouse, a parent or a child, or anyone special in your life will love!Here are some of our favorites: 1.) The Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 2 is a smart speaker with intelligent voice control, crafted in solid aluminum anddesigned for stunning 360-degree sound experiences. The BeoSound 2 has Google Assistant built in. Have aholiday party at your house and need tunes? No problem. Just say the words “Hey Google” and ask for yourholiday playlist. Also, this speaker can deliver the morning news and weather updates with flexible & adaptable design thatfits anywhere in your Highland Park, TX home. Come check out this stunning product in our DeVanceExperience Center!

Whether you’re building a new home or renovating, we’re sure you’ve seen the deluge of DIY products that keep popping up everywhere. Maybe you’ve investigated some of these big-box products yourself and weighed the pros and cons of going it alone versus enlisting expert help. We suggest leaving those packaged “solutions” on the shelf.

Instead, we at DeVance Electronic Lifestyle highly recommend a pro smart home automation installation for several reasons, three of which we’ll cover today. Curious to see why? We’ll reveal more in this article.

SEE ALSO: Interior Design Trends for the Smart Home

Everything’s Customized

Before we start your installation project, we sit down with you and discuss any individual preferences you might have. That conversation feels open ended and leads us to dozens of possibilities informing everything from your design preferences to your family’s control needs.