smarthome Archives - Page 2 of 3

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...

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...

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.