Modernizing Your Morning

At Media Systems, we have spent the last four decades creating the most luxurious, comfortable, and cutting edge spaces in the home. Modern systems can be beautifully designed, easy to use, and increase our quality of life. Here’s a glimpse into a morning in our smart home.

It starts first thing in the morning, in the master suite. At 5 AM, the blackout shades open and lights begin to ramp up to 10% over 15 minutes. Don’t worry though, Crestron’s brushless motor shades are so silent, we don’t hear it at all. I don’t want to have my iPhone by the bed, so instead, our music system turns on in the bedroom and master bath with something relaxing to wake us. My KOHLER® KONNECT shower system comes on to the perfect temperature. My wife, Jaclyn, goes to our Panasonic NS700 intercom system and calls to each of our girls’ rooms to wake them for school. “Keely, are you up? Rylan? Camryn?” They should be up already because their lights are on, their shades are open, and their own music is already playing.

We move to the kitchen and lights are already on with music playing. We disable our home security alarm system and let Bennie (our Boston Terrier) out and then get started on breakfast. I wish I could say that the stove makes our eggs for us, but we’re not quite there yet! One of the girls isn’t down yet, so we go to the intercom in the kitchen and call her. It so nice not to have to yell up the stairs first thing in the morning! Jaclyn gets an alert from the Luma camera on the back patio letting her know that Bennie is at the door and ready to come back inside.

Once we’re all ready to go, I vent the car from the BMW app. When we’re leaving, I say to our voice assistant Josh.ai, “Ok Josh, we’re leaving.” Josh integrates with our Crestron system and locks all the doors in the house, lowers the shades, sets the thermostats to away mode, sets the alarm, turns off all the music, and turns off every light in the house. We are on our way. Oh wait! Did I remember to shut the garage? Thankfully, I can look on the Crestron app and see that it is shut and I don’t have to go back to check.

Before we even got up this morning, Rachio ran the sprinklers and sent me a notification to let me know. Today Bennie will have a great time following around “Rosie”. That’s what the girls call our Roomba® i7+ robot vacuum. If Bennie gets too rowdy, we’ll get an alert from our Furbo Dog Camera. We can watch him, talk to him, and even toss him a treat. If Amazon leaves a package, I’ll get an alert from my Doorbird video doorbell system. I can see people coming and going with the doorbell camera, but I also have a dome camera on the porch where I can see the packages that are left on the ground.

All of these things we take for granted today, like power car windows and power steering; those are just assumed now, right? We’re so used to modern conveniences, I can’t imagine going back.