Smart Home IO

Smart Home lighting control has come a long way since the Vigilite light switch timer. Lutron and Vantage home lighting control have both advanced leaps and bounds within recent years.With the advent of the smartphone and apps running our lives, the logical progression in lighting is to go forth on your smartphone or tablet and control all that can be controlled. The amount of money it takes to get into a lighting control system has dropped dramatically. Now the 99% can get in on the action without having to put another mortgage on the house to get some great lighting control functions and usable features. Vigilite as seen in the picture above was a device from the lighting control past that only served one purpose and could not even connect to an iOS application. Who wants that? It remains on the lighting control shelf with the clapper and the lamp timer everyone in the 90's that took a vacation had in their junk drawer. The future of lighting control is ev

Works with Nest connectivity service was popularized with the learning thermostat and Google's purchased line of connectable devices which now has opened up some of the possibilities for integrating the Nest devices to a larger managed system. Control 4, Crestron, RTI and Amazon's Alexa are just a few of the systems that are now able to be paired and integrated with your Nest thermostat. This is great news for those who love the look and feel of the Nest thermostat but prefer to have your home managed with one system or app interface. (Less is More!) Below is a list of the current devices and services that can Work with Nest. Wemo - Switch Lifx - Light Bulb Rachio - Smart Sprinkler Controller Skybell - Video Doorbell Phillips Hue - Smart Lights Misfit - Sleep Tracker August Home Haiku - Ceiling Fan Amazon - Echo & Alexa Chamberlain - MyQ Home Control Hayward