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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
