Like you, I’m a card carrying CE Pro subscriber. My Monday morning ritual is coffee in one hand, phone in the other, skimming headlines before the day kicks in. When Farr Shepherd’s session landed front and center in “Making the Most of the Educational Sessions at CEDIA Expo 2025” (check
I was so excited to finally have some of the smart home components I’ve written about for years—mind you, not the top-shelf, movie-villain-lair stuff, but still. It was a real upgrade from the disconnected house I had before. And like most people who’ve just made a tech leap, I was
You ever get a callback for something that wasn’t your fault—but somehow, it’s now your problem? We talked to an integrator last month who’d set up a beautiful home system. All the bells and whistles. Two months later, the client’s streaming kept dropping, the HVAC glitched out, and the garage
Wi-Fi 7 is here—and a lot of integrators are still deploying it with Wi-Fi 5 habits. If the only thing that changed was the gear, don’t be surprised when you’re still chasing weird performance issues after the fact. Wi-Fi 7’s full potential doesn’t show up unless your process evolves too.