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How to Fix LED Lights Flickering In Australia with SFI from SAL

by Simon J Richardson | Apr 24, 2025 | buyers guide, for consumers

LED downlights are a modern upgrade to homes and when combined with a smart home system like PIXIE, really enhance your lifestyle and home. That is until they start to flicker. RippleShield SAL National fixes this flickering issue.RippleShield fixes this flicker issue...

Top 4 Rooms to Renovate in Your Home with Smarthome Technology

by Simon J Richardson | Apr 21, 2025 | buyers guide, for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smarthome

Times have changed and its now possible to start with just a few key rooms and expand when you have more funds or you want to add further enhancements to your home and lifestyle.

Does Home Automation Increase the Value of Your Home?

by Simon J Richardson | Apr 17, 2025 | buyers guide, for consumers, smart home, smarthome

Does home automation increase the value of your home is one of the most often asked questions for smarthome integrators. And when googling this term, no doubt you will find a lot of articles from people selling smarthome products, trying to convince homeowners the...

PIXIE Plus finds room for Rooms

by Simon J Richardson | Apr 16, 2025 | for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smart home integrators

The PIXIE Plus App provides a fast and simple mobile interface for controlling PIXIE smart homes, and with the introduction of ROOMS, PIXIE Plus just got a whole lot better for larger homes too. As PIXIE is deployed into larger and larger homes, often the devices list...

A wiser smart home solution for Australian homes with PIXIE

by Simon J Richardson | Mar 31, 2025 | buyers guide, for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators

PIXIE is a wiser smart home solution choice for Australian home owners seeking cost effective, sophisticated & reliable smart home solution for 2022. But what makes PIXIE a wiser smart home solution compared to the other choices in Australia? Answering this...

Is Your Smarthome Spying on You?

by Simon J Richardson | Mar 25, 2025 | buyers guide, for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smart home integrators, smarthome

Do you think your smarthome technology is spying on you? I recently visited a big box retailer to buy batteries and noticed an area of entry-level, products being marketed as smarthome products. On each product was a little card instructing customers to “Ask Echo to...

How Much Does it Cost to Make Your Home a Smart Home?

by Simon J Richardson | Jan 21, 2025 | buyers guide, for consumers, smart home, smarthome

Asking how much does it cost to make your home a smart home in Australia in 2021 seems like an easy question to ask and get answered. Anywhere from a few hundred dollars up to hundreds-of-thousands of dollars is the answer - depending on what you want to achieve. This...

2025 Australian Smart Home Checklist

by Simon J Richardson | Sep 29, 2021 | buyers guide, for consumers, smart home, smarthome

Smart home technology is creating a lot of confusion for home owners at the moment. There's too many choices and not enough thought about what outcome a home owner is hoping to achieve. And that's because a smart home is no longer a technology of the future. They are...

The new PIXIE Smart Dimmer Now Has Fade Rates, and They’re Awesome!

by Simon J Richardson | Sep 2, 2021 | for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smart home integrators, smarthome

The G3 PIXIE Smart Dimmer SDD300BTAM not only looks a lot different to the G2 PIXIE dimmers, its functionality has been updated too. Its striking new slimline appearance is a game changer for the flexibility in creating multi-gang dimming wall plate up to 6 gangs, but...

5 SAL PIXIE PLUS App features to Control Your Smarthome Like a Pro

by Simon J Richardson | Nov 5, 2020 | buyers guide, for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smart home integrators, smarthome

The PIXIE PLUS App provides homeowners a more sophisticated smart home interface when comparing the simpler PIXIE App. The PIXIE PLUS app has so many features in fact that its easy for users to overlook some of the more useful functions provided, that really add those...

Setting Up Sunrise Sunset Schedules with SIRI and SAL PIXIE PLUS

by Simon J Richardson | Apr 26, 2020 | for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smart home integrators

The SAL PIXIE PLUS App when combined with the SAL PIXIE Gateway opens a world of additional automation possibilities for smart homes. As the SAL PIXIE PLUS App is also SIRI enabled, this provides users access to the SIRI shortcuts. In this example I'm going to show...

Is This The Most Underrated Smarthome Device of 2020

by Simon J Richardson | Feb 1, 2020 | buyers guide, for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smarthome

This item has been hiding in plain site in the SAL PIXIE smarthome ecosystem for some time. It doesn’t need an internet connection to leverage its power across a whole smarthome and you don’t need to be a smarthome expert to use it or set it up.

Widgets are The Next Evolution of Smarthome Apps

by Simon J Richardson | Jan 21, 2020 | for consumers, for electricians, for systems integrators, smart home, smarthome

Why are widgets the next evolution of smarthome apps? Simple. Time. It’s the one thing we can never get back once we’ve spent it and it today’s ever faster world, controlling your smarthome has to be more convenient not less. This means saving even more time and...

8 Ways Smartplugs Enhance Your Lifestyle

by Simon J Richardson | Jan 9, 2020 | buyers guide, for consumers, smart home, smarthome

Smartplugs like the SAL PIXIE smart plug help to make dumb things smart. Here's 8 ways smartplugs enhance your lifestyle, every day. Simply by plugging in appliances, electronics, lamps and just about anything else that can be turned on and off, you can transform...