Getting Creative with Hands-Free Home Automation

What was once considered science fiction is quickly becoming a staple for smart home automation systems everywhere - you can now control various aspects of your home with your voice. This makes for a convenient, stylish and practical solution in many cases. Below we look at all the ways you can use hands-free home automation to your advantage.

Set Up Scenes You Can Activate Anytime

You can pre-program scenes and then activate them with voice commands using an Amazon Echo or Google Home. For example, you could set up a scene so when you say Alexa, trigger cooking time, the kitchen lights go brighter, and Spotify turns on your favourite cooking playlist. Or you could say Hey Google, it's shower time and set up mood lighting and music in the bathroom when you command.

From the comfort of your bed, you could put the house to sleep by closing all the blinds, turning off all lights and locking all doors with a command like "turn off the house". A popular one people like to set up is a "welcome" scene as you walk through the door. This could be set up to light up the house exactly how you want when you get home, turn on your favourite music or turn on the TV.

Make Your Mornings Easier

Home automation has probably already made your mornings easier. Using Somfy Connexoon Window RTS, you can pre-program your motorised blinds to open at the same time as your alarm to help ease you into waking up.

Some days you might want to sleep in and not have everything turn on at the same time. In these situations, voice control is handy. Simply ask Google or Alexa to light up the bedroom, bathroom and hallway when you're ready to get up.

Improve Home Security

When you add voice control into the home automation mix, your security becomes even easier to manage. For example, you might be lying in bed wondering if you locked all the doors and windows. Simply ask Google or Alexa about any aspect of your security system and ask them to lock or secure anything that you missed without having to get up.

Controlling Individual Devices

Of course, you can also control a range of individual aspects of your home in a variety of ways. Some examples include:

• Dim the lights in the master bedroom
• Set the living room fan to 20 percent
• Play The Crown on Netflix
• Pause the Blu-ray player
• Adjust the thermostat to 25 degrees
• Turn on the TV
• Lock the front door

There are countless ways to use voice control to quickly and conveniently control your home. For more information on what you can control, take a look at our Google Home and Amazon Echo user guides.

Interested in Home Automation Solutions?

Home automation is a fast-growing lifestyle choice to save time and energy, and thanks to creative ideas and help from Somfy, it's even easier to automate everyday home tasks, even when you're not home.

For over 50 years, Somfy has provided quality automation solutions for homes and businesses. You can count on us for incredible customer service.

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