Home Theater

Your home theater is one of the most important spots in your home, and probably where you spend a lot of time. And while a good home entertainment system has great speakers and a high-quality display, today's home theaters are also benefiting from another important feature – home automation. Popular smart home theater upgrades include:

 

• Smart remotes: These remotes are designed to connect to all your devices across multiple brands and control each one as needed. They often use smart hubs and even touchscreens to help you sync with all available devices.

• Voice Assistants: Today's voice assistants, like Amazon's Alexa in Echo devices, are particularly compatible with smart home devices, including home theater components. That means that you can give voice commands to adjust volume, mute the TV, turn on your system, and much more. When combined with automated lights and blinds, you can create routines that prepare the whole room for a movie with just one voice command.

• Smart TVs: Smart TVs are a great introductory device for home theater automation. On their own, they work with a variety of apps and help you automatically connect to popular streaming apps that you may want to use. Smart TVs may also be able to easily connect to content stored on a computer hard drive, and make it easier to play games from various services.

• Smart speakers: Speaker bars and speaker systems are great for your TV, but what if you want to listen to music or podcasts without a screen? Today's smart speakers can easily connect to mobile devices and play whatever audio you want so you get to enjoy that high-quality sound in more ways.

 

Interested in learning more? Look for smart home companies that offer home theater automation, or that can advise you on what smart features will complement your home entertainment setup.