Control your entire home with Siri, Alexa and Google. No cloud fees.

Yes. We are integrators, not territorial about your tradies. If you already trust an electrician, security installer or AV contractor, we coordinate with them rather than replace them. We handle network design, Apple/Alexa/Google glue, automations, local recording and documented handover; they handle cabling, panels, mounting or alarm hardware where that split makes sense. A short alignment call before install keeps everyone on the same page and avoids duplicate work.

We audit what you pay for today versus what you still need after migration. Apple One, iCloud+, Nest Aware and similar plans often bundle camera storage and features you may not need once recordings live on your own hardware with encrypted backup. We keep subscriptions that still add value — music, mail, conveniences you choose — and help you downgrade or drop the rest so you are not paying twice for the same job.

No. A Raspberry Pi with a bargain-bin MicroSD card can look fine in a tutorial — until Home Assistant’s recorder, history and database writes hit that card around the clock. Consumer cards are not built for constant small writes. They slow down, corrupt, and fail, often taking your automations, history and backups with them.

We spec storage for real smart-home load: SSD or NVMe on the hub where possible, high-endurance or A2-rated media only when SD is unavoidable, and recorder settings tuned so logging does not destroy the disk. The same professional mindset applies to power (UPS), cooling, and tested backups — your system should behave like infrastructure, not a weekend experiment.

That is part of why our installs cost more than a parts list from a forum post — and why they stay reliable after the installer leaves.