by Simon J Richardson | Nov 14, 2025 | buyers guide, for electricians, property developers, smart home, smart home integrators
Want more profitable smart home jobs with fewer call-backs in the ACT? Canberra is full of homes that started “smart” at retail and stalled. Owners have speakers, a few bulbs and a camera or two. What they don’t have is a home that behaves. That gap is your...
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...
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 | 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...
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...
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...
