Lighting control is one of the best investments you can make for your Malibu, CA, house. Home lighting is a technology that has value far beyond its functional purposes — we use different lighting fixtures and brightness levels to create ambiance, cultivate an inviting environment, and find more comfort in our living spaces. And smart lighting control has the bonus of bringing significant time and energy savings into your daily routines. Why waste more time flipping switches when you can press a button on your smartphone instead? Or better yet, when your house does it automatically.

Savant and Lutron are the premier brands for luxury home lighting control. Keep reading to learn more about their solutions.

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Lutron

Lutron has long been a dominant brand in the lighting control industry. One of the company’s primary advantages is that Lutron offers straightforward, easy-to-install solutions for single-room, whole-home, new builds, and retrofits. The RadioRA 2 system is entirely wireless and supports up to 200 devices, making it a great whole-home lighting option for retrofits. Lutron’s most impressive offering is HomeWorks, a luxury, whole-home lighting system that supports up to 10,000 devices. Lutron lighting works seamlessly with shading, thermostats, and HVAC to enhance your home environment for comfort and convenience.

Lutron offers an extensive line of smart switches, dimmers, custom keypads, wireless remotes, voice control, and mobile app control that makes dimming and adjusting the lights in your home effortless. You can schedule lights to turn on or off at specific times of day and build custom scenes to set the right lighting environment for “Family Dinner,” “Movie Night,” or “Wind Down” with the press of a button.

Lutron features we love:

• Geofencing uses the geographical location of your smartphone to trigger specific lighting events. For example, Lutron will command home lights to turn off when you’re leaving and turn on when you’re approaching. Geofencing is a convenient feature if you consistently forget to flip the lights off when you leave the house.
• Smart Away. The Smart Away feature triggers random lights to turn on and off when you’re away from home or on vacation. The purpose is to create the illusion that someone is home and deter potential burglars. Smart Away can give you peace of mind knowing your home is better protected when you’re gone.

Savant

Savant has impressive lighting control options as well. The company’s primary advantage is that Savant supports whole-home automation that extends beyond lighting. Savant brings your home lighting, shading, climate, audio/video, and security together in a single centralized system. As a bonus, Savant home automation is compatible with Lutron lighting systems, meaning you can have the best of both worlds.

Like Lutron, Savant offers an extensive line of control options, including the Savant Pro mobile app, touchscreens, keypads, the Savant Pro Remote, and voice control. You can build personalized lighting schedules and scenes that activate at preset times or with the press of a button on your smartphone.

Savant features we love:

• Daylight Mode. Daylight Mode uses sophisticated technology to match indoor lighting color temperature and intensity with natural sunlight patterns. Dynamic, natural lighting is associated with increased comfort, better sleep, and improved overall well-being.
• The TrueImage app places dynamic color control in your hands. Use the app to change the color temperature and brightness of your home lighting to reflect a mood or ambiance.

Haustech is a trusted Savant and Lutron dealer in the Malibu, CA, area. If you’re interested in adding lighting control to your home, our experts can guide you through your options and help you make the best decisions for your lifestyle. Give us a call or fill out a contact form to set up a consultation with us. We hope to hear from you soon!

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Whole home audio is a win for everyone in your family. With multi-room audio distribution, you can store, access and manage all your audio services — streaming platforms (Spotify, Pandora), playlists, MP3 libraries, CDs, the radio, TV audio, audiobooks and podcasts — from a single intuitive interface on a smartphone app or touchscreen device. From there, it only takes one touch to direct music to any room in your Malibu, CA, home.

The newest trend in whole home audio is audio over IP technology, which uses your home network to transmit exceptional sound throughout your home. In this field, Savant is leading the pack with its best-in-class IP audio products for residential systems. Keep reading to learn more!

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Why Multi-Room Music?

With multi-room music, you and your family can have unlimited access to music, audiobooks and podcasts in any room of your home. And we’re not talking about reconnecting to a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi speaker to play Spotify every time you move to a new room. We’re talking about an integrated system with high-fidelity speakers that envelop you in crisp, clear sound while you prepare dinner in the kitchen, work in the home office or practice yoga in the exercise room. With room-by-room or whole-home distribution capabilities, you and your family can listen to music individually in different rooms or bond over shared tastes.

Countless studies show that music helps improve your mood, energize your exercise routines, provide comfort and reduce stress and anxiety. Bring more joy and brightness to everyday chores and routines by adding a personalized soundtrack.

Why Audio Over IP?

An IP audio system uses a computer network to send audio signals between devices instead of relying on point-to-point cabled connections. Traditional audio distribution systems require all speakers to be connected via cabling infrastructure to a centralized source component. While these systems are very reliable, they need a labor-intensive, costly installation with long wire runs to connect multiple speakers to your system. Additionally, scalability becomes an issue when you’re limited by cable lengths and the number of input/output ports available.

In contrast, a networked system enables audio signals to be distributed over standard ethernet connections, vastly simplifying the installation and wiring process. IP audio remains digital from the source to all zones, and because all connections are on the same network, multiple audio streams can move effortlessly to different zones simultaneously. Savant’s unique IP speakers and soundbars keep the audio path digital with no degradation all the way to the speaker.

At Haustech, we highly recommend Savant’s audio over IP technology for whole home audio. IP audio systems are highly scalable, and Savant’s system allows for up to 96 rooms of audio distribution. Adding additional rooms and speakers is easy by connecting new devices to a network port and adding either architectural or freestanding speakers.

One of the problems with traditional audio distribution is that analog cables or long speaker wire runs can degrade sound quality, especially over significant distances from the audio source. Savant’s audio over IP system distributes music to amplifiers in each zone digitally, resulting in clean high-fidelity sound that doesn’t diminish over long expanses.

Savant’s IP audio integrates seamlessly with Savant home automation, so you can control your entire home (audio/video, security, climate, motorized shades, lighting) from a single interface of your choice, like a smartphone app. Haustech is a certified Savant integrator, and we’re ready to fill your Malibu, CA, home with music. Let’s get started designing the system of your dreams — call us or fill out a contact form to schedule a consultation.

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Technology is changing rapidly. Moore’s law just keeps proving itself over any over – and it’s true in the home too. Whereas we have traditionally held many hands wiring and installing systems in large residential and commercial spaces, the times are changing. Our team is excited to now offer assistance in the DIY landscape.

Retrofit installations for music (Sonos), HVAC (Savant, Nest, Honeywell), Lighting (Savant, Lutron), Networking (Araknis, Ubiquiti, Eero), Security (Schlage) make anything possible for anyone with a few extra dollars to spend.

Heard of Apple HomeKit? I’d like to say that it’s an APP, but it’s not. It’s a platform built ‘behind’ the Apple IOS front that works with a select group of quality products that will allow for natural integration.

For example, Haustech comes and helps you install a Honeywell Lyric Thermostat, some Lutron Caseta Wireless Lighting, and the Schlage Sense Lock – and we get them all configured as separate apps on your IOS or Android Device. THEN, in the case of the iPhone, you are natively able to tell Siri what to do. Press your little button and say “Siri, turn on family room overheads” or  “Siri, lock the door” or “Siri, turn the cool the house to 60 degrees (I like it cold).” All at your own fingertips!

As much as “DIY” means Do It Yourself – sometimes it’s not that easy. Changing light switches, updating thermostats, setting up a wireless music system, programming remotes, installing smart locks… the list continues to grow. Though much simpler to do these kind of updates then in the past, you may still need some assistance. That’s the future and Haustech is here to help you help yourself.

I believe what scares many people about home automation, even those that can afford the super expensive systems, is the reliance on a company to manage their technology needs. Technology has issues – don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Haustech can help anyone be in command of their technological future at a value never before seen.

Do you have questions about the DIY Smart Home? Leave a comment here or come tell us on Facebook.

Haustech (formerly called CBA Technology) has been involved in hundreds of home automation and audio/video projects throughout the Los Angeles area and we bring years of high-end AV/Automation expertise to each project. Contact us today!

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The remote has a touch screen interface and also can be controlled by your voice with prompts such as “Watch Netflix” or “Listen to Adele.”

Its sleek appearance and easy functionality will make it a must-use accessory in the home. It can control between 1-4 zones of entertainment, music and lighting. At $499 this is an incredible value.

Learn more about the remote from Savant.

Haustech (formerly called CBA Technology) has been involved in hundreds of home automation and audio/video projects throughout the Los Angeles area and we bring years of high-end AV/Automation expertise to each project. Contact us today!

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