Rounding Out My System
Despite my role as a tech magazine editor, over the years I’ve been a fairly reluctant smart home customer, resisting offers to install a full-featured control system from the various pro-quality manufacturers, such as Crestron, Control4, Savant, URC, or RTI. But, last fall, something finally clicked for me, and I decided it was time to commit to completing a system that had been built in bits and pieces over the 13 years I’d lived in my home.
But, first a little background.
Back in 2008, after writing about residential tech for almost a decade, my wife and I moved with 2-year-old daughter Ella and dog Otis, out of a tiny one-bedroom New York City apartment into our first house – five-bedroom suburban residence in the thriving Indianapolis suburb of Carme.
From the moment we decided to move, I was all in on the idea of a building
