Seattle · King and Snohomish counties
Every switch still works. That is the whole design brief.
If this company closed tomorrow and every server it owns went dark, your house would still light itself and heat itself from the wall. That is not a feature added at the end. It is the constraint everything else was designed around.
6/8
keep working with the internet unplugged
The other 2 are named on this site, with what exactly stops. Nobody else publishes that list because it is not flattering.
Wall switches and dimmers
Works offline
Lighting scenes
Works offline
Heating and zoning
Works offline
Motorised blinds
Works offline
Door locks
Works offline
Cameras and recording
Works offline
Voice assistants
Needs the internet
Video doorbell notifications
Needs the internet
What it costs to have it done.
Ranges rather than a single figure, because the answer depends on how many zones the plumbing already supports and how deep the existing switch boxes are.
Talk about a system- Consultation and system design
- $650
- Lighting control and scenes
- From $4,200
- Heating and zoning
- From $2,800
- Motorised blinds
- From $780 each
- Locks and access
- From $520 each
- Cameras with local recording
- From $3,400
Two visits and a written design. Yours whether or not we install it.
Per floor, on a typical house. Existing switch boxes reused where they are deep enough.
Depends entirely on how many zones the plumbing already supports.
Wired where a wall is open, battery where it is not. Battery ones need charging twice a year and we will say so.
Convenience, not security. See the note on every page that mentions them.
Recorder in the house, on your own drive, and nothing leaves the property by default.
None of this makes your house secure.
A smart lock is a convenient lock. A camera is a record of something that already happened. Both are genuinely useful and neither is security, and any installer who tells you otherwise is selling you a feeling. It is written here because people make decisions about their houses based on that feeling.
You leave with the passwords and the design file.
A printed panel guide
One page per floor, laminated, in a drawer. What each keypad button does, in words. The house has to be operable by somebody who has never met us.
Every password, written down
In a sealed envelope and in whatever password manager you use. The single most common failure we are called to fix is an installer who kept the credentials.
The design file
Yours. Any competent installer can pick the system up from it. We are not interested in being difficult to replace.
A walk round, twice
Once on handover day and once a fortnight later, when you have actually lived with it and have the real questions.
