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 | 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...
