2016 was undoubtedly a big year for all things voice command, the star of the show being Amazon Alexa, which is now compatible with a plethora of home automation devices, many of which launched at CED...

My good friend Mark Feinberg, owner of Home Theater Advisors (HTA), and I talk several times a week. Sometimes it is about our families, what we did for the weekend, etc. Most of the time it is about ...

My good friend’s wife works in HR at a Wall Street investment bank. We were talking recently about how such a large percentage of the compensation on Wall Street is in bonuses and how hard that must b...

We all get calls from potential clients to take over projects. While you do need a set of criteria to use to evaluate whether you will take on the work (scope of new work to be done, age of equipment,...

I don’t know about your customers, but ours are getting confused about OS3. Crestron announced an update from OS2 to OS3 in late 2018. I have been talking to clients about Crestron Home OS3 since that...

My favorite clip to show the strength of the audio and the subwoofers is the asteroid scene from Star Wars Clone Wars. It equally distributes the sound between all of the speakers and the subwoofer re...

Our big use case is opening and closing window shades and turning music on and off. The biggest issues are having to remember exactly what to say, having to repeat yourself, and the issue with too man...

We always include power management and UPS with all proposals. When clients do question the products and their cost, we reiterate how the IP power conditioners allow us to support them and provide gre...