Are you ready to start traveling again this season? If you’re like most of the world, you’re looking forward to getting out of the house and vacationing with friends and family. It’s time to have fun! Plus, with Control4, you can shed some stress by checking in on things at home from wherever you are.

Whether you want to keep tabs on your primary residence while on the road or manage your vacation home—or both, Wipliance can deliver a personalized Control4 system that lets you monitor and control your lights, locks, security cameras, thermostats, and more from anywhere.

Read below to discover how Control4 grants you peace of mind while you travel, then partner with our home automation company to bring the power of Control4 to your Phoenix, AZ property.

When planning for a home theater installation, it’s easy to spend most of your time thinking about the display and speakers. After all, you can’t have a home theater without picture and sound. But these elements are only two of a multitude of others that make a home theater truly epic.

The truth is that even the biggest display and most powerful speakers can’t outperform a poor home theater design. If you want an awesome theater room in your Phoenix, AZ home, don’t overlook the following design elements that are critical to the comfort and performance of your home theater.

Music is the common ingredient among our celebrations, gatherings, and downtime. It helps us set a mood, relax, and focus. So, why should music be limited to one room? A whole-home audio system breaks the boundaries of single-room listening by sending tunes anywhere and everywhere with ease.

We love Control4 as a distributed audio system because it preserves the quality of high-resolution music and offers you many ways to access and share music anywhere throughout your Phoenix, AZ home.

Intrigued? Use this quick guide to dream up the perfect Control4 whole-home audio system for you. Then call on Wipliance to turn it into a reality! Get started below.

Motorized shades are a coveted solution for homes of all sizes and styles. By choosing powered shading solutions, homeowners can effortlessly master natural light with one-tap controls or automated schedules while improving privacy, security, and home décor.

If you want to go from manual to motorized, battery-powered shades are faster and more budget-friendly to install in an existing home than hardwired solutions, which require opening walls to run wire. But that’s where the benefits of battery-powered shades end. Ultimately, hardwired solutions offer more advantages related to style, performance, convenience, and sustainability.

To get the most out of your motorized shades, it’s best to plan for this smart home solution during new construction so that running wire can be pre-planned and more efficient. Keep reading to learn more about the advantages of hardwired custom window treatments for your Scottsdale, AZ home.

We live for summer in Washington and the Pacific Northwest. It’s the time of year when the sun is a reliable partner for outdoor activities, from boating on Lake Sammamish to relaxing in our backyard patios and pools. It’s also the time many people plan outdoor living upgrades to update patios, install hot tubs, and add other outside amenities.

If you’re planning an outdoor project right now for your Issaquah home, it’s the perfect time to add a piece that makes every activity more fun – a backyard sound system. Whether it’s an update to something that’s already there or a complete outdoor makeover, here are four popular outdoor amenities made better with an outdoor audio system.

Home theaters and media rooms have been around for a long time, and the technologies powering them have seen significant change. Video, audio, and control technologies have made significant improvements, and sometimes we forget how far they have come.

The home theater of a dozen years ago might be equipped with a Blu-ray player as a primary source of high-quality movie content. Today, while many still use this, it’s more popular to stream video in excellent quality from Netflix, Amazon Video, Vudu, and a host of other online services. In audio, surround sound was just beginning to go beyond the standard 5.1 surround setup with a front stage and two surround speakers. And with video, high definition 1080P was the standard resolution, just entering its growth phase as people replaced older standard definition TVs and projectors.

Fast forward to today, and we now have not only 4K but 8K resolution available, immersive Dolby Atmos audio, and supremely intuitive control systems. Let’s explore how you can update your media or home theater design in your Scottsdale, AZ, home to elevate your entertainment experience.

Motorized shades are an extremely popular option for smart homes in the Phoenix area, especially because they make it ultra-convenient to tame the Arizona desert sun. You might think that shades are the only option for powered solutions, but you’ll be pleasantly surprised to learn there are many more options for motorized custom window treatments.

Lutron is a world leader in lighting control solutions. An integral part of those solutions is about managing natural light, and they offer an incredible variety of window treatments to fit the décor and architecture of just about any home. Read on below to explore eight of Lutron’s custom window treatment styles.

One of the greatest complements to life is music. It entertains us while we work and sets the mood for parties and holidays. It aids in relaxation, helps us concentrate, and lifts our spirits. Such a powerful tool shouldn’t be confined to a single room. Break the boundaries with whole-home audio!

A whole-home audio system lets you enjoy music anywhere and everywhere in your Scottsdale, AZ home. Beyond the luxury of whole-home listening, a professionally installed system like Control4 offers simple control of music sources and room locations without the clutter of unsightly audio gear—a big perk for homeowners who put great care into their interior design. Learn how below!

Is your backyard ready for entertaining and outdoor living this spring and summer? If you’ve groomed the lawn, power-washed the patio, and cleaned the pool but haven’t yet considered adding a backyard sound system, then you’re not done yet.

Music can significantly maximize the activities you enjoy outdoors, making it a must-have addition to any backyard in Scottsdale, AZ. What’s more, a dedicated outdoor audio system is purpose-built to thrive under harsh elements like heat and water and delivers rich, full sound throughout your yard.

Keep reading to learn four worthwhile reasons why it’s high time to install a backyard sound system!

There are two ways you can add smarts to your home: the do-it-yourself way or the do-it-for-me way (or a hybrid of the two). There’s nothing wrong with taking on the project yourself, but you’ll eliminate frustration and enjoy a much more intuitive and reliable result when you bring in a professional installer.

While many homeowners in Phoenix, AZ agree that a professional smart home automation installation offers more rewards than a DIY installation, some worry that they’ll lose the ability to expand or personalize their system later on, or they’ll be limited to a narrow selection of products and brands that they can add to their smart home system. We’re here to bust these myths!

Keep reading to learn the truth about the incredible scalability, convenience, and personalization of Control4 home automation.

Living rooms look different in every home, but they’re usually meant for the same things: relaxing and socializing. Maybe you use your living room to read or watch TV. Maybe it’s where you entertain guests. How you use your living room will help you decide the best window treatments to add to your space.

Of course, there are other factors to consider, such as light, energy efficiency, and décor. Whatever your particular wants and needs, our team at Wipliance can design and install custom window treatments  for your Tempe, AZ living spaces that are just as beautiful as they are functional.

Need some inspiration? Read on to explore four motorized shading ideas for your living room windows.

Since their invention of the simple rotary dimmer in the early 1960s, Lutron has grown to be the leader in smart lighting control solutions. Their four residential control systems accommodate a wide range of homes and budgets, from single-room applications to expansive properties.

In this blog, we’re focusing on RadioRA 2, a comprehensive and fully wireless Lutron lighting control system (that controls shades and thermostats, too). RadioRA 2 also stands apart from other wireless-only Lutron control systems in several ways, which we’lldiscuss below.

Read on to learn aboutRadioRA 2 and decide if it’s the right lighting system for your Tempe, AZ home!

Shopping for TVs, projectors, and other home entertainment equipment can be daunting for those unfamiliar with today’s audio-video buzzwords. OLED vs. LED, HDR, FPS… What do they all mean, and which ones should you be looking for based on your needs?

We can’t cover them all in this blog, but we’ll focus on a few key buzzwords popular with Sony displays. Afterall, Sony is an esteemed leader in home entertainment. And as a Sony home theater installer serving the Scottsdale, AZ area, Wipliance has the inside scoop on all the buzzwords you need to know. Keep reading to decode the popular ABCs of today’s latest videodisplays.

When it comes to big-screen movie watching at home, it’s hard to beat the performance of a projector. However, not all homeowners have the space fora dedicated theater room. If you have a media room, a traditional long-throw projector may not fit well in there either. Not to mention that a wall or ceiling projector would likely distract from your interior design.

You can put these problems behind you when you choose a Sony short-throw projector for your Scottsdale, AZ home, which offers flexible placement and installation and can display a screen size up to 120 inches in diameter. If you want big projector-screen entertainment in a small space, keep reading to learn more about the Sony VPL-VZ1000ES ultra-short throw projector.

8K TVs are here, offering four times the resolution of your 4K TVs. Now with the slow but certain arrival of 8K content and HDMI 2.1 support, which allows for 8K passthrough from video sources to your TV, you may be looking to upgrade the TVs in your home theater or media room to enjoy the world of 8K.

If so, look no further than Sony. Sony 8K TVs feature rich contrast and gorgeously saturated color, impeccable video processing, and extreme HDR-friendly brightness to transform the way you watch and play. Currently, Sony offers two 8K TV series: The Z8H and MASTER Series Z9G. Below, we’ll take a quick look at both to help you decide which may be the best fit for you and your Phoenix, AZ home.