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Build Your Dream Smart Home with Control4 in Calgary

February 7, 2025/in Automation & Integration, Calgary, Home Automation, Light Control, PDF - Newsletters, PDF Downloads, Smart Home

Why a Smart Home Matters

Life gets busy, but a well-integrated smart home system can simplify daily routines, enhance security, and improve comfort. Unlike other systems, Control4 offers a personalized experience suitable for any home, regardless of size, budget, or age.

At K&W Audio, we specialize in smart home solutions, providing expert installation and support in Calgary, Alberta. Visit our demonstration rooms near downtown Calgary to experience firsthand how home automation, powered by smart home technology, can enhance your living space.

In this blog post, we explore how to build your dream smart home with Control4.

You can read the full Smart Home Buyer’s Guide in PDF Format.

What You Get with Control4

Features of a Smart Home System

A selection of trusted brands
A customized smart home design
A centralized operating system
Control over home devices via a single app
Professional installation
Concierge-level technology support

What is a Smart Home Operating System (OS)?

The Power of Control4 Smart Home OS

A smart home OS connects various home technologies into one accessible and customizable platform. The Control4 Smart Home OS enables easy and fun control of nearly every device and system in your home. When you have a Control4 Smart Home OS installed into your home, the technology integration possibilities become almost endless. After browsing these highlights of what you can do and connect with a Control4 system, talk with a local smart home professional to get even more inspiration for your home.

The Possibilities with Control4

Smart Lighting: Beyond Illumination

Energy savings
Enhanced home security
Custom lighting scenes
One-touch control of multiple devices

You need only a few products from Control4 to enjoy smart lighting in your home. You can even start with one room and add more smart lighting over time to your existing system—the choice is yours.

Smart Security: Stay Connected & Protected

Stay connected to your home anywhere in the world with real-time home notifications, doorbell alerts, mobile home access and control, smart home security, and more. Control4 works with your most trusted security brands, protecting you without compromise. What happens in your home should stay in your home, which is why we’re committed to strict and proactive standards for data privacy.

We respect your right to privacy and believe your data should be handled with integrity and confidence. Control4 does not sell or rent your personal information to third-party companies. We also enable you to set and adjust your Control4 privacy settings to better meet your preferences.

Arm/disarm the security system via the mobile app
Receive alerts for opened doors or windows
Set automated lighting schedules
Control blinds and privacy settings
Monitor home security cameras in real time

Get started with smart security using products that will help you build the secure home experience you are wanting. You can easily add more security devices and features over time to your existing Control4 system.

Smart Audio: Elevate Your Listening Experience

K&W Audio offers award-winning hi-fi stereo systems, multi-room audio, and home theater solutions in southern Alberta. Let us help you build the perfect system for your space.

Smart Video: A Seamless Entertainment Experience

Stream music and video to different rooms simultaneously
Customize TV and lighting settings for optimal viewing
Record and access shows from any smart TV
Automate blinds to open or close with TV activity

Remote Access: Control Your Home from Anywhere

Stay connected to what matters most, no matter where you are.

Voice Control: Hands-Free Home Automation

Adjust lighting, thermostats, and security systems
Activate customized home scenes
Lock or unlock doors
Display camera footage on touchscreens

Network: The Backbone of Your Smart Home

A strong network ensures seamless operation of your connected devices. Control4 designs networks tailored to home size and usage needs.

Connected Devices: Seamless Integration

TVs, speakers, and sound systems
Smart locks and security cameras
HVAC and thermostat systems
Smart kitchen and laundry appliances
Irrigation and pool control systems

How to Get Started

Whether automating one room or an entire home, start your home automation project by consulting with a K&W Audio Smart Home Professional.

Visit our store near downtown Calgary to explore our demonstration rooms, talk to our friendly team, and experience smart automation in action. Contact us today to begin your journey toward a smarter home!

Read the full Smart Home Guide in PDF Format.

High Performance Networks – Critical Smart Home Systems

January 15, 2025/in Automation & Integration, Calgary, Home Automation, Home Theatre, Smart Home, Speakers

Pakedge, a Connected Home for a Connected Life

With so many devices being used simultaneously and heavily taxing your home network, how can you ensure optimal performance every day?

Network stability and strength is critical and you shouldn’t settle for sub-par wireless performance. Pakedge wireless networks and superior routers
work together to provide you with high-speeds, reliability, and consistent peak performance.

The Central System of Your Connected Home

Just as the Internet is the electronic pulse that brings a connected home to life, the network is the central nervous system that carries critical information to all of your connected devices. In today’s continuously-connected world, more and more devices are coming online, most notably in our homes—and it’s more imperative than ever to have a robust, high-performing home network that you can rely on. Always.

Whether you have a few devices online or your home is brimming with automation, Pakedge delivers a sophisticated network—and the highest-quality products—all designed for the unique demands of your connected home.

Dependable & Packed with Performance

Pakedge designs networks especially for your connected home, ensuring everything from Netflix to Napster and Xbox to iPads works at all times. Your network prioritizes traffic to deliver a seamless, reliable, and consistently dependable experience. You can stream movies or music while emailing or searching the internet without interruption, and your cameras, intercoms, and other online devices perform just as they should.

Simple to Scale

A Pakedge network is a platform that evolves with you. As your technology demands change, some homes and solutions require more sophisticated configurations. With the simple addition of a component or two, your home network can be easily updated to manage new devices and adapt to changing network needs.

Routers

Your router connects to your ISP and acts as the brain of your network, directing data to the right device. To get the most out of your network, you need a router that can handle high bandwidth, low latency multimedia traffic.

Switches

Switches bring out the true performance of your connected devices to give flexibility for wired connections and even power your devices. Pakedge designs switches to process AV network traffic flows at incredibly high speeds and eliminate lag, jitter, and buffering in streaming audio and video traffic.

Wireless

The Pakedge wireless controller scans your local environment to adapt and optimize your wireless performance while access points provide coverage throughout the home and enterprise-level wireless communication between all devices within a network.

The Connected Home

Award-winning Pakedge networks are engineered specifically to improve multimedia streaming. From one-room entertainment to homes with automation, Pakedge provides an always-on foundation for your connected lifestyle.

The Advanced Connected Home

For homes integrated with an ample amount of streaming devices— from audio/video to intercom, cameras, and more—Pakedge enables traffic segmentation to ensure steady A/V streaming so you never miss a beat. For advanced homes that need a little more attention, Pakedge systems allow your integrator to monitor your uptime and remotely fix any issues should they arise.

Ready to add Some “Smarts” to Your Home?

A powerful, configurable and manageable network plays a critical role in today’s smart home. If you want to make your home smarter with the best home automation available today, choose Control4 and Pakedge. And even better, we’re even part of the same family, so our commitment to our customers is unwavering. Combining an industry-leading suite of advanced networking solutions with a unified smart home system that offers personalized control over the entire home, Control4 and Pakedge are enhancing the daily lives of homeowners around the globe. Our highly trained system designers and installers help build the smart home of your dreams.

Your Home Simplified

July 12, 2019/in Automation & Integration, Interesting News & Technology, PDF - Newsletters

INTRODUCING CONTROL4

SMART HOME OS 3

Your Control4 system just got better. Bring more to your Smart Home experience by updating your Control4 system to OS 3. It has a clean fresh look, great new features and incredible performance.

OS 3 boasts more than a thousand enhancements, and the user interface is where many of those changes come alive. Now you can personalize and organize your favorite rooms, devices, and scenes for easier access. Swipe-and-tap for quick navigation, or customize room and screen saver wallpapers to uniquely reflect your home. Combine these and many more features with a new more responsive OS, and you get a dramatically improved experience.

Control4 OS 3 has been thoughtfully designed to provide the best experience no matter what control device you’re using too. Whether it’s a remote, touch screen, TV OSD or any mobile device, the way you use OS 3 is simple and more natural.

Now, not all items in older Control4 Smart Home Systems are compatible. So, some systems will need to have some products in them updated to make the jump to OS 3. Contact one of our pro’s, or drop by our showroom to have us assess your system, and the improvements OS 3 offers you today.

15% OFF Upgrades!

Now is the time to get the new items you want to round out your smart home system. When you update your existing Control4 system with any new Control4 products we’ll give you 15% off!

Redesigned Web Portal

Your Personal Web Portal has a new look and feel. Visit https://customer.control4.com/ today and check out the great new features of OS3, manage your Control4 system features and preferences, and watch videos on how to use the cool new features.

The Control4 EA1 Sale

April 21, 2017/in Automation & Integration, Events, Interesting News & Technology

Get your Control4 EA1 Entertainment Controller Delivered today !

It’s a well known issue. The TV Entertainment system is central to any home, but controlling even the simplest system is needlessly complex. Add in the growing number of interconnected devices in the home and it’s clear that you need an EA1 Smart Controller with the automation horsepower Control4 and K&W can provide.

We want to make it easy for you. So, for the great sale price of only $999.00 (tax, delivery and installation included!) let’s get the most important room in your home running simply now. We will end that pain of multiple remotes – or even worse, poor universal remotes that don’t actually do it all. With the powerful new Control4 EA1 controller and sleek SR260 remote delivered and installed by us, it’s easier and more affordable than ever to get a simple to use actual smart system.

The powerful new EA 1 smart home controller easily operates the typical TV area. Included in the sale price package is the ability to simply control 4 devices, your TV, Cable box, Surround Amplifier, and Blu-ray/ streaming box from the Control4 SR 260 remote control. Other items can be added any time too, at a very low additional cost.

Along with simple total control of your home’s media system comes the bonus of a world of great new streaming music choices for you, built right into your new Control4 EA-1. They include Deezer, Napster, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and Tidal – supporting full rich 24-bit high resolution audio. Your easy to use and great sounding new system has an on screen display that is beautiful and intuitive. It can also be controlled via an app on your iPad, smart Phone (IOS or Android), or PC too, and all that music and functionality is included, at no extra cost.

Banish your coffee table covered in remotes forever, we know you will love your simple system makeover! Another great benefit of adding this Control4 platform is, now you can expand the system to automate and control as much of your home as you want, any time you want. Control all your entertainment equipment in every room of the house, add in lighting control, climate control, door locks, cameras, fans, blinds and so much more. Control4 inter-operates with over 9500 digital products, so the sky is the limit.

This offer is only for a limited time, and ends May 15^th, so call to arrange for delivery and installation of your Smart Home controller today!