Using Control4 to Improve Your Daily Routine
Creating scenes (or simultaneous actions occurring when you press a button) lets you highlight certain areas of your home for your daily routines and activities. Using Control4 to improve your daily routine allows you to save your scenes for easy access anytime via your handheld remote, smartphone, or wall panel.
“Sounds great, but where do I start?” This is a commonly recurring theme and with so many options available to build scenes it can be hard to know what to start with. We’ve put together some commonly used scenes that are perfect when starting home automation and that will add convenience and an upscale feel to your daily routines.
Morning
Having a morning routine you enjoy is imperative to starting your days off right. Creating a custom “Morning” scene can help simplify and streamline your mornings. Wake up to gradual light instead of an obnoxious alarm clock. You can set your lights to come on slowly and softly wake you up and then have the kitchen lights already on when you get up to make coffee. You can even program your window blinds to open and let in that warm, morning sunshine. Enjoy your morning coffee and paper, or program your TV to turn on the news. Do your mornings your way.
Away
The fewer things you have to do in your home before you leave in the mornings, the better. If you don’t have systems in place to streamline the process, things can turn chaotic and stressful quickly. Packing the kid’s lunches, letting out the dog, gathering all your things for work, locking the house, setting the alarm, etc. These things can get jumbled and leave you short on time. Creating an “Away” scene for your home can take care of many things for you. Using Control4 to improve your daily routine, it can lock your doors, set your thermostat, set the alarm, and even close your garage door!
Night
Picture winding down for the night but not having to go around turning off all the lights, locking the doors, drawing the shades, and changing the thermostat. With a “Night” scene created with Control4, you can do just that and it’s as simple as pushing a button on your smartphone!
Enjoy the freedom that comes with smart home technology. Here at Dominion Design and Integration, we’ve been serving San Antonio and the surrounding areas since 2000. Call us today for all your audio/visual, home theater, and smart home service needs!