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How Can You Boost Your Home’s Cell Phone Signal?

Are you tired of being relegated to a specific corner of your Memorial, TX home to get reliable cell phone signal? Our phones are no longer solely used to make calls; we use them to stream our favorite entertainment, control our technology and read up on our favorite topics. Which is why so many people are now investing in cell phone signal repeaters to get consistent coverage throughout the house.

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How Do Cell Phone Signal Boosters Work?

Cell phone repeaters are made up of an antenna, a signal splitter, and indoor antennas. Mount your first antenna outside your home where your coverage is the strongest. The signal is received by the antenna and passed through a cable to a splitters which then sends the signals to your indoor antennas. You can include multiple repeaters in problem areas throughout your home. Your smartphone signals then take the reverse route, sending the message to your indoor antenna, to the splitter and back out through your main antenna.

Why Do You Need to Boost Your Cell Phone Signal?

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4 Great Lighting Control Scenes for Your Home

4 Great Lighting Control Scenes for Your Home

One of the coolest things about having a home lighting control system is the ability to create pre-set scenes. These scenes let you manage multiple fixtures at once so you can set the perfect environment to watch your favorite movies or simply make it easier to wake up in the morning. Using scenes not only makes your Austin, TX home more efficient, but it can also help enhance its style.

Instead of needing multiple switches on the walls to control your lights, you can have an elegant keypad on the wall with each button corresponding to a specific scene. Another great thing about scenes? They’re uniquely yours. The experts at Relative Home Systems can create scenes that match up to your specific activities and preferences. In this blog, we give you some ideas to get you started.

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Wake Up

Schedule a scene that slowly turns on your lights and opens the shades to wake you up in the morning. If you’re a deep sleeper, you can incorporate your whole home audio so music begins playing through your in-ceiling speakers until you get up. Assign a button in your keypad to turn off the scene. By having to get up to turn it off, you’re less likely to fall back asleep.

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4 Great Lighting Control Scenes for Your Home

4 Great Lighting Control Scenes for Your Home

One of the coolest things about having a home lighting control system is the ability to create pre-set scenes. These scenes let you manage multiple fixtures at once so you can set the perfect environment to watch your favorite movies or simply make it easier to wake up in the morning. Using scenes not only makes your Austin, TX home more efficient, but it can also help enhance its style.

Instead of needing multiple switches on the walls to control your lights, you can have an elegant keypad on the wall with each button corresponding to a specific scene. Another great thing about scenes? They’re uniquely yours. The experts at Relative Home Systems can create scenes that match up to your specific activities and preferences. In this blog, we give you some ideas to get you started.

SEE MORE: Gain Control of Your Lights with Lutron and Crestron

Wake Up

Schedule a scene that slowly turns on your lights and opens the shades to wake you up in the morning. If you’re a deep sleeper, you can incorporate your whole home audio so music begins playing through your in-ceiling speakers until you get up. Assign a button in your keypad to turn off the scene. By having to get up to turn it off, you’re less likely to fall back asleep.

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How Do You Want to Control Your Smart Home?

Ready to experience the convenience of smart home control? One of the biggest perks of a smart home is that you can manage it just the way you want. Whether you want to stick to traditional remotes or adopt the latest voice-command technology, it’s all up to you. Depending on your preferences and your family’s unique needs, we design a solution that makes the most sense. Below are some common control options that could be included in your Austin, TX home.

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Touchpads

Touchpads have traditionally been the control option of choice for smart home automation systems. Even within the touchpad category, there are a variety of options you can go with. You can start with a small touchpad—similar to a tablet—mounted on a table or have touchpads mounted on walls throughout your home. Some larger touchpads can even be used as televisions as well. No matter the size, all touchpads would have the same intuitive menu designed by the experts at Relative Home Systems.

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