The good-old-fashioned handheld remote remains a major control device in the modern smart home. With all of the new technologies available to monitor and manage your home, it’s easy to discount the power of the modern handheld remote control. You can operate just...
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Lighting Control to Create Stunning Spaces
Lighting is a critical element of a home’s design. It sets the mood, whether bright and joyous or laced in shadows and mysterious. An experienced systems integrator and lighting designer considers both natural light and artificial light, combining natural light and...
How To Improve Cybersecurity In Your Home Office
Due to the pandemic and a cultural shift, more people worldwide are working remotely now than ever before. As a result, office workers are investing more in their remote setup. Whether it’s a new desk, additional monitors, or a comfortable chair, we’re spending most...
Enhance your Control4 Smart Home with 4Sight
What is 4Sight? Don’t have 4Sight or don’t know what it is? Here’s a quick overview of everything you get when you sign up for an annual 4Sight subscription. Keep reading for more about this amazing system that allows Control4 system owners to keep an eye on their...
The Budapest Burns Night Supper with the RBIF
Last weekend, Animative Group attended the Budapest Burns Night Supper with the RBIF -- complete with the "piping in" of the haggis (which is very tasty and not really all that scary). We enjoyed a full-Brigadoon kind of evening -- with singing and dancing, poetry and...
Smart Home Technology For A Sustainable Lifestyle
As we all begin to see the harmful effects polluting our environment has caused over the years, we are learning that together we need to make a change. When we all do our small part to reduce our carbon footprint, we can help make the planet a better place. Living a...