Over the last several months, products from cars to game consoles to home appliances have hit a supply snag. Tech across all industries, including custom integration, is low in stock but high in demand, making it hard for homeowners to get the products they want—especially as we enter the holiday season.

You might be asking: What’s causing the shortage of popular home technology and AV products in Seattle, WA, and beyond? What can a homeowner do to combat the long wait times for their anticipated projects? Our smart home consultants at Wipliance weigh in below.

During a home build, architects create a lighting plan that may look great on paper. The layout seems clean, symmetrical, and functional. Checks all around, right? Not necessarily. Too often, these plans aren’t designed with you in mind, which results in underwhelming and impractical lighting installations.

David Warfel, founding designer of Light Can Help You, presented at the CEDIA Virtual Expo last year on the Nine Deadly Sins of Lighting Layouts that his team sees all the time, and the home lighting designers at Wipliance couldn’t agree more. Below, we highlight five of these lighting mistakes we see most often in Seattle, WA, and surrounding areas. Have you seen these mistakes, too? Read on to find out.

With summer nearly gone, it’s time to take advantage of your outdoor spaces before the late fall and winter temperatures in Redmond, WA keep you indoors. Whether you look forward to nights around the bonfire or getting toasty in the hot tub, music makes every outdoor activity so much better.

Our high-performance outdoor audio solutions deliver rich, even sound while braving the elements and staying hidden among your landscaping. With a landscape speaker system, you can bring personalized playlists and other audio content to the outdoors with just a few taps on your smartphone or tablet.

Below, explore some fun fall backyard activities you can enjoy that pair great with landscape audio!

With seasonal changes come routine changes, too. Now that summer is ending soon, it’s time to transition to new schedules and prepare for cooler temperatures in Washington. This fall, let smart home technology lend a helping hand in getting you ready for the new season.

As a leading smart home consultant serving Issaquah and the greater Seattle area, Wipliance is committed to delivering custom solutions that make your life more convenient, safe, and enjoyable in any season. Keep reading for some creative ways you can use smart home technology and automation to make your days easier as we head into autumn. Get inspired below!

For decades, Lutron has been a top name in lighting control and custom window treatments. Lutron completes the luxury home experience with beautiful tunable light, intelligent shades, and powerful wall controls that add the finishing touches throughout your unique Bellevue, WA home.

The Lutron luxury portfolio is tied together by HomeWorks, Lutron’s industry-leading home control system that enables seamless integrations and intuitive management of your lights and shades. Through HomeWorks, you can experience all that Lutron luxury lighting, shading, and control have to offer.

Below, explore four must-have solutions from the Lutron luxury collection that are sure to make a lasting impact on your home and lifestyle.

“What makes Josh.ai different from Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant?” That’s a question we hear often, and we hope to answer it here. The simple answer is that Josh.ai isn’t just voice control for your smart home devices but a smart home automation platform with a focus on voice control.

While Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant can still be fine options for controlling your Redmond, WA home by voice, Josh.ai offers a tier of luxury, privacy, scalability, and reliability that other voice control platforms can’t. Keep reading to discover seven standout features of Josh.ai below.

For any audio-video enthusiast, a home theater or media room isn’t just an area that houses electronic equipment – it’s a sanctuary. It’s where you become immersed in film, celebrate big game wins, laugh and cry with your favorite TV characters, and create memories with friends and family.

Such a cherished environment requires specialized AV furniture that maximizes the life and performance of your gear, keeps you comfortable, and highlights your home theater design. Below, learn three reasons why AV furniture is a worthwhile investment and how our team can help you select the best options for your Bellevue, WA-area 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.

Integrating home automation into your Redmond, WA home is not an easy task. While there’s no shortage of DIY smart devices and systems, making them all work together might seem daunting when you get beyond the simple things. If you’re a Microsoft or Google engineer, perhaps you enjoy dabbling in home automation for the fun and technical challenge. But even the most tech-savvy homeowners discover that doing serious home automation projects demand significant time and attention to detail. For most people, debugging things that don’t work consistently or quite right or is not how they want to spend their time. That’s the value you get from engaging a professional home automation company for your project.

How do you evaluate a home automation professional? To an extent, you will perform due diligence as you would with many other service providers, looking at verifiable reviews and getting recommendations from trusted people. But there are a few specific questions you can ask to get a better sense of what company will be the right smart home partner for your project. Let’s look at them in more depth below.

You’ve wanted a dedicated space in your Seattle home for movies and shows for a while, and you’re finally ready to take on the project. Maybe you’ve purchased some gear, picked out couches online, and already have a lineup of films you’re going to enjoy once the setup is complete.

But before you get started on your media room or home theater design, be sure to steer clear of the following common design mistakes if you really want a high-performance and immersive entertainment room. And if you begin to feel overwhelmed, don’t worry—our home theater experts are here to help.

When Sony reveals a new line of TVs or Amazon announces their next-gen smart speaker, technology enthusiasts are usually the first to upgrade. These devices are cutting-edge and make our homes look cool.Unfortunately, the latter  can’t always be said about home network gear. These systems live in the shadows of our smart homes and can often be forgotten.

While a network system isn’t something you showcase, it functions as the backbone of your connected home. An outdated network installation will inevitably lead to connectivity woes and even open the door to security threats. Fortunately, our home network installation services kick these connectivity concerns to the curb by replacing outdated systems with enterprise-grade solutions that offer top speed and unwavering performance wherever you need it.

Wondering if the network system in your Issaquah, WA home is overdue for an upgrade? If you experience the following four signs, the answer is likely yes.

When it comes to outdoor speaker manufacturers, we love Origin Acoustics  for their unwavering commitment to quality and love of great sound.Their outdoor speakers are specially designed to withstand the elements while delivering the perfect musical ambiance for spaces large and small.

With warm weather on the way, now is an excellent time to prepare your backyard for those anticipated activities under the sun and stars. And what’s a better addition to outdoor events than music? Get ready to rock out or relax at the first sign of spring with a backyard sound system from Origin Acoustics.

Explore Origin Acoustics’ four outdoor speaker collections below and learn how the audio specialists at Wipliance can help bring your dream backyard sound system to life in Kirkland, WA.

There are movie theaters. And then there are IMAX movie theaters. Anyone who’s watched a film in an IMAX movie theater never forgets the breathtakingly large screen, bright and vivid visuals, heart-pounding audio, and expanded aspect ratio that delivers more picture than standard theaters.

What if you could unleash the power of IMAX at home? While your private theater won’t have a 50-foot tall screen and seat hundreds of people, you can bring IMAX’s signature picture and scale to your Bellevue, WA home with a Sony premium 4K projector. All Sony 4K projectors are IMAX Enhanced, making them ready to deliver the bigger and better IMAX visuals you love in compatible content.

Read more to learn about the IMAX Enhanced standard and why Sony is the best choice for immersive video entertainment at home.

When it comes to interior design, smart homes are changing the game. Beyond creating personalized spaces that appeal to unique styles and needs, interior designers today must be able to incorporate an increasing number of devices into their projects as smart home technology becomes an expected feature in luxury properties throughout the Seattle, WA area.

By partnering with a home automation company like Wipliance on your projects, you’ll have the tools you need to create spaces filled with intelligent solutions that blend beautifully—or even add to—your interior designs. Read below for a few ways our team can help you make beautiful spaces smarter.

Known for its lively atmosphere and delicious Southwestern menu, Cactus opened its first eatery in the 90s and now has six thriving locations throughout the Seattle area. If you love tapas and hand-crafted cocktails, you’ll love Cactus. Plus, select locations are now open for patio and indoor open-air dining.

In 2016, the Cactus location in Kirkland chose Wipliance to design and install an integrated solution for AV, lights, and security. The result was an easy-to-use system that gave staff quick multi-zone control of their restaurant sound system and other technology so they could spend more time with customers.

But that’s not all Wipliance accomplished for the restaurant. Read below to learn more about the tailored solutions we created for Cactus and how they’ve benefited the Kirkland location.