Adding Smart Technology Brings Immediate Benefits to Your Home or Business

Keeping up with the latest smart technology offerings can be difficult whether you’re a homeowner, small business owner or office manager. A new device or feature becomes available every day, from tunable lighting to new music distribution systems. The best way to ease your entrance into the smart tech landscape is to work with consolidated solutions from companies like Control4.

The most significant benefit of a Control4 system is that all your features –lighting, security, AV, climate and more—live within the same platform. Work with a Control4 dealer to gauge which features make the most sense for your space and how to manage them for optimal results. 

Our Control4 certified showroom in Dallas, TX, is a great way to interact with these solutions firsthand. This blog highlights some unique ways to use these features in homes and businesses throughout the area as a start before you call or pay us a visit.

As we move into the dog days of summer, find enjoyment at home with outdoor audio and video entertainment

Summer has arrived in Dallas, TX, and you’re itching to take advantage of the warmer temperatures by spending more time outside. At Multimedia Solutions, Inc., we know just the solution you need to enjoy limitless entertainment anytime you want it: an outdoor AV system.

Outdoor speakers and TVs are a great long-term investment because you’ll always have entertainment at hand, even if you can’t leave the house. The kids will have movies, music and fresh air to occupy them all day, and the adults can unwind after work with soft lighting and slow music on the patio.

If you’re not convinced already, keep reading to learn 3 reasons you should invest in outdoor entertainment this summer.

Given the extraordinary circumstances of the past few months, it’s natural to feel a heightened sense of anxiety. In uncertain times, the world may feel less secure. But we have some good news. If you are concerned about the security of your home and family, the latest technology can go a long way to alleviating your concerns.

If you’re stuck with a security system installed ten or even five years ago in your Dallas, TX home, you're missing out on a wide array of innovation in home security. Older security systems tend to be reactive versus proactive - they tell you something that happened after the fact. You might know a sensor for a door or window was tripped, but you don’t know how or why.

Let’s explore some of the latest security options for greater peace of mind to know your family and home are protected.

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Smart Locks

Smart locks have advanced significantly in the past few years. One simple way they can enhance security is by going keyless. If you copy a key for someone, there's no way to know if it has been copied. Rekeying locks is also a tedious and expensive proposition. Smart locks can operate with codes and secure smartphone access, which can be revoked at any time. If you need to grant access to your home for service when you're not there, you can do so temporarily. You can also let someone in remotely from anywhere with just your smartphone.

With the current health crisis and shelter-at-home directives, everyone is spending far more time at home. And with workplaces, offices, schools, and venues temporarily closed, the house is now the center of a much higher volume of activity for work, play, and entertainment.

We already lived in a connected world, but now those connections are more important than ever. Your home already depended on fast internet connections for computers, laptops, smartphones, gaming devices, TVs, smart automation, and more. With everyone at home working, learning, and playing, home networks are increasingly strained.

How do you ensure the home networking performance in your Austin, TX, residence is keeping pace with all the traffic? Keep reading to see how to optimize your network for all of your family’s activities.

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Weak Wireless

Many homes have weak or dead spots for Wi-Fi in their homes. Sometimes just moving a few feet in one direction can make the reception bad enough that your device starts freezing on loading web pages or with apps not functioning. If you are relying, as many households do, on the router/modem supplied by your internet provider, you may not be getting the range you need.