About a year ago this home was an empty shell of studs and wire. You watched us pre-wire it. You watched the rough-in. Today, we walk through the almost finished home — every light, every shade, every speaker, and every screen running on one Control4 system.
This is the full final walkthrough: lighting, shades, audio, video, climate, access control, and security, all integrated and all controlled from the Control4 Halo Touch, keypad dimmers, or a phone. No room full of remote, Just walk in and live.
THE SHADES STORY
Every window in this house wears Hunter Douglas — Pirouette shades in the study that open their vanes to let the light pour in, and dual shades with room-darkening liners in the primary bedroom and game room. Johan demos them three ways: from the Halo Touch, from the Control4 keypad dimmers, and from the Hunter Douglas PowerView app, where one scene opens the whole room — or opens itself at sunrise.
INSIDE THE RACK
The brain of the home: a 2.5-gig network, a Control4 Core 3 controller, a Luma NVR feeding PoE IP cameras, an Episode matrix amplifier for the stereo zones, two full 5.1 surround systems for the family room and game room, and a WattBox UPS keeping the important gear alive when the power blips. The rack pulls out for service, with video, power, and data dressed separately — because the system you never see should be built like the rooms you do.
ROOM BY ROOM
A last-minute TV in the primary bathroom (and the one honest exception to IP control in the house), a Samsung Frame TV with its matte anti-glare finish paired with 6-inch Klipsch in-ceiling speakers in the primary bedroom, an upstairs gym wired for sound, the biggest screen in the house — an 85-inch Samsung in the game room — and four outdoor satellite speakers wrapping the pool. Even the pool runs through Control4.
The coolest system is the one you don’t have to control.
WATCH THE BUILD FROM THE BEGINNING
🏗️ The Pre-Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnvORD8aqoE
🔌 The Rough-In: https://youtu.be/nlwip9zylMI?si=sgIAR-L-94c9n7vw
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 — Welcome Back: The Build Is Complete
00:27 — Entry, Security & Smart Lighting
01:07 — The Study: Halo Touch + Pirouette Shades
03:01 — Dining Room Keypad Dimmers
03:49 — One Remote, Every Room
04:27 — The Rack: Built to Be Serviced
05:54 — Inside the Rack: Network, Core 3, Luma, Episode & WattBox
09:04 — Primary Bathroom: Shade Wiring Done Right
09:52 — The Bathroom TV (the One Exception)
10:48 — Primary Bedroom: Music in Seconds
12:16 — PowerView App: Room Darkening + Sunrise Scenes
15:42 — Klipsch Speakers + Samsung Frame TV
16:22 — Still Upgrading: Integrating the Ceiling Fans
17:03 — Upstairs Gym
17:49 — Game Room: 85-Inch Samsung + Best Sound in the House
18:38 — Outdoor Audio Around the Pool
19:02 — The Full Recap
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