🥞 Breakfast Bites: Garage Door Issues, Layered Window Treatments, and...

Greetings, welcome to today’s Breakfast Bites — Catch up on the best articles and tools that can help to increase profits, navigate the ever-changing tech world, and elevate your success!

Hungry? Here’s what’s on the Menu today:

• Finding Alternatives to MyQ Garage Door for Control Systems

• Lutron’s Layered Shading Can Add Another Income Source to Your Business

• Are We Ready to Secure Homes with AI?

• Enjoy another great Vegas Sphere 🌍 photo from the @SphereOfTheDay Twitter account

Get a Jump on the MyQ Control Issue

If any of your clients are relying on the MyQ app or devices to access and control garage doors, it’s time to find a replacement.

This could be a good time to be proactive and reach out to those who have MyQ tied to a control system such as Crestron or Control4 as the standard connection that MyQ once supported (via API) has been shut off.

Read this article (at theverge.com) for more information and alternatives.

Finding Profits in Layered Window Treatments

If you don’t already have a quality solution for lighting and shades for your clients, be sure to check out Lutron. At CEDIA, Lutron presented some interesting solutions and ideas that can be sure to benefit your bottom line.

How it Benefits You

One great thing about adding lighting and/or shading to what you offer, is that lighting and shades are often considered differently when budgeting a project.

Audio / Video / Network / Security all seem to get lumped together, but lighting and shades fall more in the interior design side of things from both a client and builders perspective.

Adding this to what you offer doesn’t necessarily mean you have to pull back in other areas of what you’re selling, it can get added on top of what you’re already selling.

Lutron’s Offering

A key trend in the industry is layered window treatments, which offer improved control over light and privacy.

Homeowners can benefit from automation by programming shades for different times of the day or for varying privacy needs.

Lutron’s products, including the innovative Palladiom wire-free model and the Triathlon Wire-Free Roman Shade Fabrication Kit, respond to the growing demand for flexibility, customization, and aesthetics in window treatments.

Read more at CEPro.com

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Ready to Have AI Secure Your Client’s Homes?

Ok, maybe it’s not as ominous as it sounds, but if Snap One & Control4 have their way, it will be happening soon.

So far, at least, it’s not a Terminator level AI, it’s just going to add some intelligent capabilities to their surveillance systems using the new Luma Bridge device. It will help to identify and detect different events and objects which truly should enhance your clients security.

With AI being such a polarizing topic for many people, you’ll have to tread lightly, or just refer to these new features as Intelligent Detection or something more generic for the time being.

Read more about the new features in this article at avnetwork.com!

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• Ready for Holograms? 📡 Who will beam them into your clients homes first?

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