Amazon Echo available in the UK

Amazon have started taking preorders for their highly successful Echo in the UK with release to be around the 28th of September. The Echo has been available in the USA for more than six months and the Americans have taken to voice control in a big way. The Echo is a voice activated assistant for your home, making tasks easier by asking the Echo questions or requesting it to carry out specific tasks.

If you have your hands a full with cooking a meal just ask Echo to set a timer or what is in your calendar for the day. You can also ask the Echo to play music from services like Spotify and TuneIn radio or read a book from Audible. The Echo becomes more interesting when you integrate it with your home automation. Control4 and Crestron have announced partnerships with the Amazon Echo so now you can ask Echo to recall presets to carry out a multiple tasks in your home. Tell you Echo "turn house to goodnight" and the control system will lock the doors, enable the alarm, turn off all televisions and dim the lights. 

Voice control of your home is now a reality, if you are interested please get in contact for a demonstration.

Scottish Home Show 2016

avfuse will be exhibiting at the Scottish Home Show in Aberdeen between the 23rd and 25th of September. We will be showing off how home automation can change the way you live and interact with your home. If you are planning to build your own home or want to add technology to simplify your busy daily routine then stop by stand A14 at the Aberdeen AECC.

avfuse are part of the Nest Certified Programme

This enables us to advise, supply and install the range of  Nest products.

At present trying to conserve energy and reduce your bills are vital and the way of controlling your home heating and hot water are changing.

Replacing your existing thermostat for a Nest smart thermostat could reduce your bills by 20%.

Teaching the nest thermostat is as easy as turning it up or down. The thermostat learns your preferred temperature and builds a personalised schedule.

The thermostat can also detect when you are away from home and switches to an energy efficient mode, saving you money.

avfuse are now Kaleidescape dealers

Kaleidescape produce premium movie servers meaning your movie collection is only a click away.

Your individual movie collection is stored on a central server so no need to hunt for that DVD or Blu-ray disc.

Kaleidescape also provide a movie download store enabling you to add to your movie collection with downloads matching video and audio quality that of a Blu-ray disc.

The Kaleidescape menu system displays the movie's artwork on screen to enable you to easily find the movie of your choice. By selecting a movie the menu automatically rearranges the movie art to highlight movies that may be similar to your choice.