Lighting and shading control enable you to set the perfect amount of light at the touch of a button or the sound of your voice. These systems give you unprecedented control, provide a superior experience, and increase security in your home. When implemented correctly, they will turn off when you set your alarm and dim before you go to bed.
Smart Home Automation
Audio Advice is North Carolina’s #1 smart home and automation company. With over 40,000 customers, 40 years of experience, and unmatched customer service, we have become the standard in the Southeast for smart homes. This page is packed with informative videos and information to help you on your journey:
Smart Home Video Tour
In the following video, we cover what a professional smart home is all about. We review the major parts of a smart home with matching video to make it easy for you to visualize and see some of our systems in action. If you are building a new home or remodeling and considering home automation, this video will be both fun and informative. Whether you are looking for a single room remote or a fully automated dream home, give us a call or email us — we would love to help you out! To learn about more scroll down to our Buyers Guide below where we have more detailed pages and videos on the various parts of a smart home.
Smart Home Automation Buying Guide
A typical home contains many technology systems. These may include whole house music, intercom, distributed video, networking, security, smart lighting and shading control, heating and cooling systems, cameras, pool and spa control, gate control, energy management, and more. A truly smart home ties all of these systems together into one seamless platform that is easily controlled. Explore our guide to understand the available options and how you can automate your home for fun, safety, and convenience. At Audio Advice we love smart homes so reach out to us so we can help turn your vision into a reality!
Motorized Shading
Having designed and installed more electronic shades over the past decade than anyone else in the Southeast, the Audio Advice team has come to love what electronic shades can do for homeowners. Watch our video to learn how to select the right motorized shades for your home.
Security & Cameras
Audio Advice designs all of our systems specifically to meet your personal security requirements. This includes creating zones of protection - defined areas covered by specific sensors and detectors. In the event of an alarm, having defined zones enables the system to communicate where the alarm is occurring as well as the type of alarm (i.e. intrusion or fire).
Outdoor Audio & Video
Whether you're looking for some simple outdoor speakers, rock speakers, or a custom-designed Sonance landscape system, we can help. Our speakers can blend right in with the environment, providing incredible sound to your entire backyard. We can even bury outdoor subwoofers, to provide literally earth-shaking bass.
Whole Home Audio
Imagine being able to instantly create zones for different combinations of rooms, and control everything from your mobile device or a sleek panel on your wall. The operation of our whole-house music systems is simple, with navigation easily learned by even a non-technical person in a matter of minutes.
Home Networking
The home network is quickly becoming the most important appliance in the home. This is due to the huge increase in streaming music and video services along with social media and its constant connection. Planning for a high-performance network, capable of concurrent streaming services is critical to the best experience.
Home Theaters
At Audio Advice, we've designed and installed over 1,000 high-performance home theaters for our customers in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina, and surrounding areas for decades. In fact, we've delivered more custom home theaters than anyone in the Southeast and even won Best Home Theater in the U.S. by Electronic House Magazine.
Inspiration Gallery
From landscape smart lighting to multi-room audio, we're here to help you every step of the way. Browse our inspiration gallery to spark creative ideas for your smart home integration.
Smart Home Planning & Budgeting Tool
How much does smart home automation cost? As you might imagine the answer is dependent many factors. Use our home technology planner below as a starting point for estimated average ranges. Bear in mind that every home is different and we can help you achieve your vision at all different budget levels. This planner will also help you think through the different parts of a smart home and make your process way more efficient — if you send us your planner when you are done, it will also help our designers find your right balance of budget and performance more efficiently.
ESTIMATE HOME AUTOMATION COST
Home Control Tutorial Videos
Explore our expansive library of home control tutorial videos.
Audio Advice Signature Series
At Audio Advice, we've designed, configured, and installed more smart home automation systems than anyone in the Southeast. As our customers in Raleigh, Charlotte, and surrounding areas can attest, our experience has enabled us to evaluate and curate the products, platforms, and combinations that perform best together to create a fully integrated smart home. We have invested heavily in producing our Signature Series version of each of these leading smart home control systems. Through installing thousands of control systems and living with them ourselves, we have enhanced & personalized the systems by adding functionality and automation processes that exceed the normal out of the box versions.
We integrate full intelligent surge protection into our systems, allowing us to proactively monitor and reboot our customer's systems remotely in the event of a power surge or product failure. Once the system is installed, our 24/7 on-call service team will be there to support your system, diagnosing, and solving any unexpected issues that may arise.
We're the only company in the Carolinas that has years of experience selling and installing all of the top brands in luxury home automation and control. While we’ve completed installations all over the country, we typically work with homeowners within a 150-mile radius of our Raleigh & Charlotte, NC Showrooms, including Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Fayetteville, Apex, Holly Springs, Morrisville, Wake Forest, Charlotte, Asheville, Concord, Fort Mills, Hendersonville, Mooresville, Waxhaw, Pineville, and more!