Home automation in Melbourne

What we automate

Pick what matters to you. Prices are Melbourne ranges for the part, on top of the base build below.

Lighting

Dimming, scenes and lights that turn off when the room empties. $450 to $900 a room

Blinds and curtains

Motorised blinds and curtains on a schedule, including the ones you already own. $900 to $1,800 a room

Heating and cooling

Your ducted or split system zoned room by room, heating only the rooms in use. $1,200 to $2,800, plus $250 to $500 a room

Cameras, sensors and locks

Cameras that record to the house, door and window sensors, a smart lock on the front door. $1,800 to $4,500

Audio

Music in the rooms you choose, from ceiling or shelf speakers. $600 to $1,400 a room

Voice control

Voice control that knows your rooms and your scenes. $900 to $2,200

What a smart home costs in Melbourne

The base build is one system running the house, the custom app, the design, the install and support after. Ranges, not quotes.

Not in these numbers: electrical work that needs a licensed electrician, which is quoted separately by the electrician; buying replacement gear where what you own has no way into a single system; building work, patching and painting; network cabling in a house that has none.

How a Melbourne install works

1. 1

   You get in touch

   Tell us about the house and what bugs you about it now.

2. 2

   Daniel comes to the house

   He lives in Melbourne, so the first meeting is in your house, not on a call. No travel charge.

3. 3

   Design and a quote

   A plan room by room, and a price before anything is bought.

4. 4

   The install

   Daniel installs it. His own licensed electrician does anything hardwired.

5. 5

   Handover and support

   The app goes on every phone in the house, Daniel shows you how it works, and support carries on after.

Melbourne houses we work on

Victorian and Edwardian terraces

Solid brick walls with no cavity, so most of it goes wireless and cables follow the roof and floor.

Brick veneer, interwar and postwar

A wall cavity and a ceiling space you can move in. The easiest houses to wire.

New builds and estates

Often part wired by the builder. The job is joining what is there into one system.

Questions people ask

Can it use what I already have?

Usually. Existing ducted and split systems are brought into the one system, and blinds you already own can be motorised. Gear with no way to connect is the exception, and you are told before it is replaced.

Does it stop working when the internet drops?

No. It runs inside the house first, so switches, schedules and heating keep working without the internet.

Do I need a new house or a rewire?

No. Most Melbourne jobs are existing houses. What is already wired gets used, and wireless covers the rest.

How big a house do you take on?

Three bedrooms and up. Below that the design costs about the same and the result is not worth the money.

Suburbs

All of Greater Melbourne. Pages for a few of the suburbs we work in most:

• Balwyn
• Hawthorn
• Brighton
• Camberwell
• Doncaster
• Essendon
• St Kilda
• Armadale

Outside Melbourne

• Sydney
• Brisbane
• Perth
• Adelaide
• Hobart