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Make Your Home Cozier This Fall With Smart Lighting

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Warm Light and Simple Controls for Shorter Days

By late October, the sun sets earlier each evening, and you start coming home to a dark house. You flip on the overhead light in one room, then the next, and each one floods the space with the same bright, flat light. In many New Orleans homes with tall ceilings, that fixture is the only light in the room, and it has two settings: on and off. 

The cozy glow you want as the weather cools isn’t possible. It is if you upgrade to smart lighting that layers light and runs it on scenes and schedules. The right glow is already on when you walk in. Keep reading to see how that layering works and how to plan it for your own rooms. 

Is Your Home Ready for Football Season?

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Build a Game-Day Setup That Covers Every Room

Football season is here, but many homes still aren’t fully equipped. You have one TV sitting in the living room, the soundbar audio gets buried over ongoing conversations, and guests on the patio seeking some fresh air have to peek through the window to catch a replay. 

Getting your home ready for football season means having a system that follows the game wherever your guests gather. Here's how we approach game-day entertainment for the families we work with.

Back-to-School Smart Home Features That Simplify Family Life

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Make Mornings a Breeze With a Little Help from Your Home Technology

Getting a family out the door on a school morning is its own kind of chaos — lights to turn on, backpacks to find, breakfast to make, doors to lock behind everyone as they leave. For families juggling early pickup lines and after-school activities, one missed step turns a fifteen-minute routine into a scramble, five days a week, nine months a year. 

Back-to-school smart home features take the repetitive parts of that routine off your plate. Since you don’t have to worry about the little details, you can focus on keeping up with a hectic schedule. Here are some of the ways we’ve helped families throughout New Orleans avoid the headaches of back-to-school mayhem. 

How to Use Automation to Protect Your Home While You’re Away

Summer travel shouldn't mean leaving your house to chance. Campo Better Living's home automation keeps watch and steps in when it matters, built for the way New Orleans summers test an empty house. See how it works.

Technology Gives You the Peace of Mind Needed to Truly Decompress on Vacation

Summer is the time to leave your daily worries and responsibilities behind and disconnect. But it’s hard to do that if you’re always worried about how your home is faring while you’re gone. Worrying about potential intruders is enough, but New Orleans also brings a wide range of environmental threats to consider.

Smart home automation is a great tool to keep your property protected even if you’re across the globe. We cover four ways you can leverage technology to reduce your trip anxiety. These include remote surveillance to check in from anywhere, automated lighting to deter intruders, climate monitoring to protect the structure, and leak detection to avoid extensive damage.

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