August marks the beginning of new routines for families in San Antonio, TX. Your home automation should change along with the seasons. Much like how you run your AC more in the summer than in the winter, there are specific things you can do to make sure you have the most energy-efficient home!

Help your smart home automation out by making an easy transition schedule for the seasons. As an award-winning home automation company, Dominion Design and Integration can set you up with easy-to-use technology that blends perfectly into your routines.

Turn Entertainment Off Automatically Before Bedtime

During the summer your family might stay up longer and then come fall, the family jumps back to calling nights early to get the proper amount of rest for the next day. With a Control4 home automation system, you can program all the TVs in the house to turn off at the same time from a single controller to indicate that it’s time to call it a day. This way, you’ll never have to go by and check that each TV is off!

Avoid a Late Start with Scheduled Lights and Shades

We’re all guilty of hitting the snooze button one or two times after getting some good sleep—especially when the alarm sounds off before the sun is even awake. Early mornings aren’t meant for everyone, making it harder to adjust to at first. But the use smart home automation to help start your day on the right foot. By scheduling your bedroom lights to gradually brighten and shades to lift slightly before your alarm goes off and ruins your sleep, instead of getting angry in a dark room, you’ll get to wake up to a more energized space and get your day started peacefully. Schedule the same events to occur in your kids’ rooms as well to help them wake up and get going.

Use Quirky Smart Home Scenes to Break Up The Norm

Even with busy routines, working from home all day can get boring fast. If you or your family will be home for work and school in the coming months, Control4 can help you break up the monotony with custom smart home scenes that transform your environment and uplift your mood. At lunchtime or any breaks throughout the day, tap the “Entertainment” scene on your favorite controller and stream a Top Hits playlist wherever your speakers allow and then enjoy the fun with your family before having to return to work!

Secure Your Home with Remote Access Control

If your routine involves leaving home every morning, there is probably a checklist of things that need to be done. Turning off lights, lowering the shades, adjusting the thermostat, locking all the doors, closing the garage door, and you can’t forget to arm the alarm system. Control4 just so happens to make all these steps simplified by giving you full remote access to your smart home automation system via the Control4 app. Create multiple scenes that do all of this for you! Then all of your settings are ready to go with just the tap of a button on your smartphone. You can even check to make sure everything worked the way you wanted them to, just from looking at the app. Now, you don’t even have to second guess if your home automation is reaching its full potential!

Control4 home automation was designed to make routines simpler, safer, and more fun during any season of your life. With COVID still looming, make staying at home a little fun. Learn more about Control4 and how our home automation company can design and install a custom-tailored solution, just for you. Contact Dominion here to get started.