Custom Installation from Ratio AV Makes Your Salt Lake City Home Run Smoothly

When you think of the term ‘smart device,’ what comes to mind? Some think of copious amounts of cables coming out of the wall or a jumble of remotes that operate a variety of devices that don’t communicate with one another. Luckily, that’s not the case with smart devices in an expertly designed and installed smart home.

With a smart home installation, Ratio AV helps you incorporate all of your smart technologies into an automation system. All of your devices can work together in a smart and sophisticated way that makes life in your Salt Lake City, UT home easier.

Read on to learn more about a few integrated technologies you can hide in plain sight in your home. Unless you tell your guests, no one is the wiser about your home having a comprehensive smart system.

Cord-cutting has gotten simpler in recent years, but it means a strong home wireless network is more important than ever

If you’re like most people in America, you can’t stand your cable company. Cable providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable are some of the most loathed companies in the country, and generally for good reason. In many cases, customer service is abysmal, prices are high with no competition, and you’re not even guaranteed to get the network speeds you’re paying for.

Thankfully, it’s easier than ever to ditch your cable by “cord-cutting.” Streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu, along with digital TV providers like Sling that don’t use the usual cable TV infrastructure, can provide endless hours of entertainment, often at a significantly lower price than cable.

This does not mean, however, that cutting the cord is always easy. If you’re relying on the Internet for your entertainment, you need a network that can handle all the data you’ll be streaming around your home. This is particularly true of your home wireless network, and today we’ll look at both the opportunities and challenges of cord-cutting if you live in Utah’s Park City region.

Turn Your Park City Home Into a Healthy Paradise

Close your eyes and picture your best day in your ideal smart home. You wake up refreshed, take the day off to spend at home, relax all day, wind down to a good book. Whether you’ve included it in your mental scene or not, tunable lighting forms the perfect backdrop to all your daily activities. When Lutron acquired Ketra last year, smart home clients couldn’t wait to combine Lutron’s intuitive controls with the human-centric lighting capabilities of Ketra.

We’ve found that few smart home technologies blend into the scenery while providing as many mental and physical benefits as easily controlled, circadian-based lighting. Keep reading to experience a day in the life with tunable lighting - see how this integration coincides with your lifestyle and transforms it effortlessly.

Smart home devices streamline your life and make technology easier to use

For all the benefits high-tech devices have to offer, the sheer number of them can be overwhelming, to say nothing of keeping track of everything. These factors may make the prospect of adding a smart home automation system intimidating. We understand these concerns, but we want to reassure you that automation can make the technology within your home work more smoothly and effectively.

If you live in the Park City region of Utah and want to learn more about how smart home automation can simplify your life, keep reading.

Automation Helps You Make the Most of Available Daylight, Whether Your Home Is Blasted by Summer Heat or Winter Cold

Energy efficiency is something everyone should care about. Regardless of what’s happening in the broader world around us, conserving energy leads to significant savings and eases the strain on your local electrical infrastructure. But knowing where to start with energy efficiency can be a challenge.

If you’re wondering where you can begin to reduce your home’s energy consumption, we recommend starting with motorized shades from Lutron. Lutron has long excelled at designing tasteful, practical automated shading and lighting control systems.

Today we’ll look at how Utah residents can save money by installing motorized shades in their Park City-area home.

We have 4 suggestions to improve your Park City home’s main entertainment area!

If you have a home theater, you know that the sights and sounds of your display, audio and design impact on how well you savor your entertainment space. How can you create the most immersive, dazzling experience possible every time someone steps foot inside?

Evolve your theater beyond the initial, bare-bones audio-video installation by transforming it into a fully developed movie viewing paradise that you and guests will enjoy. With a few helpful tips that you might have never considered, we think you’ll be ready to create a dynamic theater space in your Park City, Utah, home, where you can start entertaining and relaxing all year round. Though there are hundreds of customizations and upgrades, today we’ll start with our top four ideas!

Don’t miss these energy-saving benefits!

Lighting control can beautify spaces and give you more effective management of your integrated home. But have you ever considered that you could also help save the environment, one light at a time? Keep reading to see how this one simple switch could save you energy, time and money -- all from one seamless installation.

Ratio Audio Video installs Lutron, the industry leader in automated lighting control, for Davis County, Utah, clients -- both residential and commercial. Today, we’ll focus on why lighting control keeps paying off in homes near you!

Engage Clients, Prospects and Employees with Dynamic Video, Audio and Conference Call Capabilities

The next quarter is just around the corner. Perhaps you’ve been measuring various metrics to help you improve performance, but you might be missing out on a critical key to driving revenue: your conference room.

Simply updating conference room A/V, lighting, security and more can make all the difference in how your key contacts perceive you. We’ll explain exactly what we mean as well as action items for bolstering your conference spaces, so don’t miss this blog!

Ensure Functionality and Security with a Network Update!

Is your network failing you?  Chances are, if you’re relying on traditional aids such as routers, range extenders and your internet service provider, you’re missing out on the most robust network available to your Salt Lake City, Utah, home.

How can we help you solve this? At Ratio AV, we’re dedicated to looking beyond a quick fix and finding long-term solutions with our complete home network services. Keep reading to see what we do and how it’s differs from previous approaches boosting your home network in the past.

Discover How Upgraded Business Audio-Video Systems Change the Game

Updated: 10/07/2024

If you're running a successful business, you don’t have time to waste on faulty or difficult-to-use AV equipment. Your employees will thank you if you invest in enterprise-grade audio-video tools that maximize their productivity while encouraging their input. And the best part? These solutions won't pile on any technology-related frustrations to their regular workflows.

Ratio AV is a commercial audio-video installation company that can help your company do so much more! Keep reading to explore how we can empower your team with transformative boardroom and office spaces.

Motorized Window Treatments Offer More Than Just Convenience!

If you’ve researched motorized shades, you know how much homeowners praise them for their convenience. However, automated window treatments offer robust architectural benefits as well. They can elevate your Park City, UT home’s aesthetic, create a competitive edge in the market, and much more.

Keep reading for more information about the unexpected perks of motorized shades!

EXPERIENCE THE LUXURY AND CONVENIENCE OF JOSH VOICE CONTROL

To provide the best services for your Salt Lake City, UT, home or resort, Ratio AV continually looks for the most innovative products. One of the technologies that is transforming the way people interact with their homes is artificial intelligence. Josh.ai is a perfect example of this, as it allows you to manage your smart home system more intuitively than ever, using just your voice.

Dive into our blog to see why we love Josh.ai and how voice-controlled home automation has evolved throughout the years.

SEE MORE: What Living in a Modern Smart Home Is Really Like

The Age of Alexa

The creation of the iPhone spurred makers to implement voice control for the first time, through the mysterious Siri. Amazon Alexa and Google Home have been flying off the shelves ever since, allowing homeowners to talk to their TVs, speakers, and other smart home components.

But tech innovators like Josh.ai creators, Alex Capecelatro and Tim Gill, still felt as though something was missing and decided to make a more capable product. They wanted something that integrated with other smart home technology in the home, like Control4, Sonos, and Lutron while revolutionizing how voice-controlled home automation worked. Josh.ai, though it seems similar, operates very differently from previous voice automation software.