Introducing the Magic of Control in a London Home

 While smart home technology integrator are never a moment without dreaming up possibilities to enrich and simplify their clients’ lives, relaying the seemingly infinite options to these very clients isn’t always the easiest task. Angus Murray of London’s New Wave AV has found that having a Control4 Experience Center showroom offers the perfect environment for enabling wild imaginations.

Take his project in the London suburb of Kent, for example. Through a mutual relationship with the project’s interior designer, Murray met some eager homeowners who visited the Experience Center for ideas on their new 12,000-square-foot home.

The main desire for this family of four was to own a system that allowed them to enjoy both audio and video around the property with minimal equipment on display. In addition, they wanted a dedicated cinema room as well as a secondary projection system in their bar/media room for more informal viewing. With teenagers ruling the roost, there were serious networking requirements in addition to multi-room audio. A total of 20 audio zones were installed throughout the home. 

“To our surprise, the teenage children in the house preferred using airplay and listened to music that was more bass heavy,” noted Murray. “The EQ curves for their bedrooms were adjusted to reflect this difference. Dedicated Spotify Direct connections were also created. These automatically turned on the relevant bedroom.”

One of the biggest advantages of the family’s visit to the Experience Center was being exposed to lighting control, which they had never utilized previously. “It allowed them to see the benefits of this level of lighting control—the ability to control multiple circuits within a lighting scene quickly and easily.”

Let There Be Light (or Not)

After discussing the lighting design and window treatments with the interior designer, it was agreed that lighting and window treatment control would be specified in the key rooms in the property. Lighting scenes were created for film viewing in both the cinema and the bar. In the cinema, the scenes were triggered when the projector turned on. “Dusk to Dawn” lighting was created as well as “Welcome Home” lighting.  

‘Mockupancy’ was programmed (and linked to the Intruder Alarm away setting) to recreate the look of an occupied property while the homeowners are away. Mockupancy automatically records whenever the alarm is not armed.  When the alarm is set to “Away,” the mockupancy playback is triggered, including lighting and window treatments.

In the cinema room, when a film finishes, the back-panel lighting is ramped up to 10 percent to gently lighten the room.

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