URC and Legrand have created seamless control of Legrand’s Vantage lighting and climate systems with Total Control, URC’s residential and commercial automation platform. This integration includes native use cases in Total Control’s Scenes menus allowing events to control multiple systems and devices.
As part of URC’s Unified...
Smart home device trends present an opportunity for professional integrators to land more clients than ever before by promoting the long-term value and benefits that professional solutions can provide instead.
In the past couple years, smart home technologies have become mainstream consumer favorites. From smart outlets, RGB LED...
Russound V-KP-1 Amplified Keypad Product Review
There seems to be a wave crashing over the custom installation industry over the past six months. Thousands of homes out there have old school volume knobs with in-ceiling speakers and no upgrade path leveraging all this ancient clutter. Homeowners now have options thanks to companies like...
Russound hasn’t let a boom in the audio installation business get in the way of its product development efforts. The New Hampshire-based manufacturer followed up on the mid-May 2021 release of its value-priced MIXAMP-60 70V/100V mixer amp featuring Bluetooth, tuner, and USB Audio, with a complete overhaul of its Russound app, with a...
URC’s new TKP-8600 in-wall touch screen builds off the popularity of the company’s TRC-1480 Amazon Alexa integration but adds new privacy features that were previously unavailable.
Unlike its predecessor, the TKP-8600 clearly indicates if its microphone is activated. It also allows the consumer to choose whether to initiate voice...
Flic is the first external wireless button to add support for triggering Amazon Alexa routines.
Speaking out loud to make your voice assistant turn off all lights, play your music, or start the heater in your car feels great initially. But the hundredth time that you yell the same command, hoping to be understood correctly, it can...
According to eMarketer, Amazon is expected to maintain a dominant 70-percent market share of the U.S. smart speaker market into 2021. It is no wonder that most smart home manufacturers have integrated Alexa voice commands into their platforms.
In addition, there has been a trend toward a voice-first approach for smart home control....
In the summer of 2020, Span introduced smart electrical panel for switching to clean energy sources and for home energy monitoring. Now the company has secured an extra $20 million in funding and plans on leveraging the investment to expand into a partnership with Amazon Alexa.
Span, a San Francisco based company, created its smart...
