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 | 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 | 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...
