Smart Home Basics – Serial Connections

Smart Home Basics – Serial Connections

Chances are, you’re more familiar with Serial Connections than you realize. This is just a fancy name for a hardwired connection.  Most of our Computer monitors in the last 10 years were a type of Serial connection. It’s the funny adapter with all the pins...
Smart Home Basics – IP Control

Smart Home Basics – IP Control

IP Control is really a serial connection over the internet.  It can be wireless or hardwired depending on how the connected devices is connected to the home network.  Like serial connections, IP supports 2-way feedback. IR and Serial connections require a hardwired...
Technology: It’s in Our Blood

Technology: It’s in Our Blood

We love technology. We love everything about it — learning how it works, seeing what’s new, installing it, setting it up and watching it do its magic. That’s what makes our company different from some others. You may have worked at a job where you sold shoes or made...
Smart Home Basics – IR Control

Smart Home Basics – IR Control

IR Control is how your TV Remote communicates to your TV.  Your Remote has a little bulb on it that flashes.  When it flashes, it sends a command out to your TV.   Your TV has a little IR sensor built into it that see the flashing command from your remote. The Smart...
Smart Home Basics – Video Distribution

Smart Home Basics – Video Distribution

Video Distribution is similar to Audio Distribution, but it’s for your Video sources (Blu-ray Players, Apple TV, Roku, Satellite/Cable Receivers, NVRs, etc). You are able to keep your Video Sources in a central location like the Media Rack and distribute the...
What is Entertainment Control?

What is Entertainment Control?

Entertainment control is the ability to control your TV’s and video sources — Blu-rays, Satellite Receivers, Apple TVs, etc.  In the industry it’s often referred to as Video Distribution, but where it’s an unfamiliar term to most Clients, we...