Smart Home Tour in Dallas; TX | Control4 Home Automation Video Lecture | What is Home Automation? - Self Help Learning

so I just got off a plane and I landed
in a part of the country where you find
a lot of these that's right those are
long horn cattle so where on earth am I
we are in Dallas Texas actually we are a
little bit north in a town called
McKinney and we're here because we heard
about an incredible smart home at a Golf
Resort called Craig ranch their tagline
is live the dream so let's go see if
they really are
before the owner of this 4,000
square-foot automated showplace gets
home from work I got the lowdown from
byron Baird he's a control Ford dealer
who helped give this place a brain this
is a townhouse it is they say
everything's bigger in Texas and this is
probably a pretty good example of that
yep there is control in every inch of
this home from touchscreens to keypads
even an iPad with the my home app and
with those you can control multiple
zones of audio multiple televisions with
DVRs for every family member you can
control fireplaces ceiling fans
thermostats and get this in this house a
few things that I might highlight would
be the front door camera and doorbell so
that if you were for example watching a
movie in the family room home theater
and someone rang the bell it would
actually pause your movie for you for a
few seconds long enough for you to see a
camera view of the front door camera
everything works together and what's
great about this dallas palace are the
endless custom touches check out the
bedside keypad push the midnight button
and the lights in the stairway
illuminate to 20% just enough to venture
down for a late-night snack
you think that's personalized control so
Jeff's coming home after a long day of
work right now and him opening the
garage door it doesn't just trigger the
lights it actually kicks on the
television to his favorite channel of
course ESPN and wait till you see what
happens next
first thing I do when I come in and I
have a personalized key fob it's a
microchip that in here that has my
personal settings programmed into it so
I wave it over the wand if you will
behind the door that then brings up my
personalized settings how I want to live
my life when I come in the house and
what does that look like what it looks
like for me as it turns on the lights
from this hallway it turns on the lights
in the kitchen and the family room it
brings on the TV to ESPN for my purposes
and then it brings on the music I don't
want the audio of VSP
and I want to just see it and it brings
on XM 90s for me these are all the fun
features Jeff has continued to add on
but like many he started small every
single day there's something more than I
want to add to the system and how many
people have you converted yeah I think
that I'm you know on a daily basis I'm
probably selling it to some level
because of my enthusiasm about it want
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