Integrating Smart Home Technology With Your Home Theater

Home theaters continue to grow in popularity, and new smart home technology makes it simple to control your home with your voice. By using creativity and existing smart devices, a company like Safe & Sound Home Systems can create a fully integrated home theater. 

But how can smart home technology make your home theater even cooler? 

Let’s look at ways to control your home theater with smart home technology. 

How to Use Smart Assistants for Home Theater Control

Setting up a home theater with a smart assistant is a great way to enhance your control. Smart assistants, like Google Home or Alexa, can control your home theater through various apps and integrations. 

For example, Alexa can connect to Amazon-branded Firesticks or Fire Cubes, which allows you to control your television with your voice. Similarly, Google Home can control Chromecast devices. 

Another way to integrate your Smart Assistants is through your television itself. Some smart TVs come equipped with streaming apps and can be connected to Google Home or Alexa. The best smart TVs for integrations include Song, LG, and Samsung. 

After connecting your devices, you can control your television settings and streaming services with your voice. This is much easier than finding the remote control, which always ends up lost in the couch. 

Benefits of Automated Lighting for Home Theaters

Did you know your home theater’s lighting can integrate with your smart assistant? You can create automated lighting in your home theater using special light bulbs and a Google Home or Alexa device. 

How does this benefit your home theater? 

You can control the lights in your home theater with your voice or an associated app. If you want them dimmed or off, you can simply ask your smart assistant to do so. 

You don’t have to stand up or stumble over anything while turning off the switch on the wall. If you need to raise the lighting during the move, simply ask your smart assistant to pause the movie and turn the lights on. 

Smart Thermostats & Home Theater Comfort

Are you someone who brings a blanket to the movie theater because it’s always too cold? It’s easy to integrate a smart thermostat in your home, which you can control from the device, a phone app, or your voice.

There are Google home thermostats that work with Google Assistant, allowing you to control your home’s temperature easily. You can also use zones to separate your home theater’s temperature from the rest of the house, keeping it more comfortable for watching movies without adjusting the temperature in the rest of the home. 

Smart thermostats also offer energy savings options. You can set up regular heating and cooling schedules based on your lifestyle, control the different zones in your home, and keep unused areas at a different temperature to help lower energy usage. 

How Smart Security Protects Your Home Theater Investment

Home theaters can contain several thousand dollars worth of equipment, depending on which options you choose. That’s why you need smart security to help protect your investment. 

You can protect your home and your home theater from intruders by using cameras, smart doorbells, automated locks, and other home security devices. Creating a custom home security system with all the required features is easier than ever.

Create the Ultimate Automated Home Theater

From smart assistants to home security, Safe & Sound Home Systems can help you create your ideal automated home theater system. Whether you are building a new addition to your home or converting an existing room, our experts can tailor a home theater system to your preferences, making it as easy as possible to control every aspect, from volume to the room's temperature. 

Call us today at 763-634-1094, or set up a consultation online!