Smart home technology is all around us these days and is much more mainstream than in previous decades.  The undeniable success of voice assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri are simplifying our day-to-day lives.  If you ever dreamt of controlling your smart New York City coop with your voice, it is now well within the realm of possibility.  Smart thermostats like Nest or Ecobee can respond to commands like “Alexa, I’m cold.” A plethora of consumer smart lights, plugs, cameras, and video doorbells can also respond to your voice or control from a smartphone app.  So it’s easy, right?  Just go out to your local big box store or go online and you can order a complete smart home kit!

It’s actually not that easy to achieve the well-integrated smart home.  While consumer smart devices do work, sometimes they don't always respond the way they should.  Occasionally Alexa mysteriously can't connect to a smart device.  Sometimes the voice command you issued yesterday to dim the dining room lights doesn't work today.  If you don't depend on your smart home automation for any critical functions, you may not mind some of these glitches.

On the other hand, if you forgot to lock the garage door and are away for a long trip and the app for your smart lock decided to freeze and not connect, you might get more concerned.

If you want smart home automation that works consistently and well, you’d be wise to look into a professionally designed and installed system.  If you have a larger home and property, it is even more imperative to go the professional route.  Why?  Keep reading to learn more. 

When you want to listen to a specific song, it takes less than a minute to pull out your smartphone, hop into a streaming service, and find what you want to hear. We have access to massive music libraries in the palm of our hands, and many homeowners want to take advantage of that easy accessibility so that they can listen to high-performance in any room of their house.

Whole home audio systems are becoming more and more popular each year as manufacturers find new ways to craft sound technology that integrates smoothly with different design aesthetics, and this blog gives you a rundown of what you can expect from a whole home audio installation from Electronic Lifestyles. Keep reading to learn how you can take the audio of your Long Island, NY to a new level of excellence.

You’ve recently given your Hamptons home a smart technology upgrade, but your system isn't functioning correctly. Devices aren't responding the way they're supposed to, your automated systems are lagging, and sometimes they don’t even work at all. At first, you assume that something is wrong with your devices, but the problems persist after you reboot them. It might not be the individual components of your system, but the network that connects them.

A weak network is one of the most common issues when you have malfunctioning home automation systems, and with so many different devices leeching off of your bandwidth at the same time, your Wi-Fi is dealing with a lot of pressure. Keep reading to learn how you can give improve the network of your Hamptons home.

So you’ve decided that you want a media room in your home to take your entertainment to the next level, that’s great. Now comes the hard part of determining what kind of equipment you want in your space. Luckily, there are common practices for media room design that can easily guide you through this process.

How do the dimensions of your media room change the screen size and acoustics? What kind of activities will take place in your space? Keep reading to find out the answers to these questions, which will help you create the ideal media room design for your Williamsburg home.