Smart Home Automation in Kansas City

Customize your home experience with Control4, a leading provider of smart home automation. 






The Simplicity of Smart Home Living

Enjoy seamless, personalized control of your home with intuitive interfaces and over a thousand new features, making it simpler than ever to make the smart home experience uniquely yours.

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Curious About Home Automation?

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One-Glance Views of Your Devices
Create dashboards to quickly monitor your lighting, motorized shades, door locks, and more, ensuring your home is secure before bedtime.
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All-in-One Control Dashboard
Instantly access your preferred smart devices, scenes, and entertainment with the new Favorites dashboard screen.
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Access All Your Favorite Entertainment
Effortlessly stream, share, and manage your favorite music and videos in any room or throughout your whole home.

Set the Scene, from Morning to Night

One-touch lighting control enhances convenience by creating the perfect ambiance for parties, dinners, holidays, and more. Custom-tailored scenes, elegant keypads, and hands-free automation make lighting control an essential feature for any home.
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Set the Mood with Smart Lighting

It's not just a switch or a bulb; it's about creating the perfect scene every time.


Smart Lighting Control

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Centralized

Eliminate wall clutter and enhance interior design opportunities during new construction or renovation with centralized lighting control, replacing individual switches with elegant, discreet keypads.

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Wireless Lighting Solutions

No need to tear open walls for new cabling in an existing home. Control4 wireless dimmers, switches, and keypads offer the control you want without the hassle or mess.
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When >> Then Automation

Customize your lighting to adjust based on the time of day, seasons, and your routines. The When >> Then personalization tool helps you save precious time, setting conditions to suit your lifestyle.

Smart Home Interfaces

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Keypads

Replace traditional light switches with stunning keypads available in a variety of colors and finishes. Customize button configurations and engravings to suit your needs.
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Voice Control

Control your lighting hands-free with Amazon Alexa, Josh.ai, or your preferred voice assistant. Set the mood for dinner or turn off every light with simple voice commands.
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Touchpanels

Manage your lights with an intuitive touch screen mounted on your kitchen or entryway walls, or use a tabletop tablet for easy navigation while cooking, reading, or heading out the door.
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Mobile Control

Monitor and adjust your lighting from anywhere with the Control4 app, providing seamless control both inside and outside your home.

If You Can Dream It, Control4 Does It

Imagine your ideal smart home and let Control4 make it a reality. With scalable products, compatibility with third-party devices, and intuitive remotes and interfaces, you can create a fully customizable, easy-to-use smart home system for the entire family to enjoy.

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Ready for Smarter, Simpler Living?

Enjoy the simplicity of whole-home control through one intuitive system.


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Effortless Control Wherever You Are
Manage your home with the Control4 handheld remote while watching TV, an in-wall keypad as you head out the door, or your smartphone when you're away.
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One App for Complete Control
Adjust lights, lock doors, and lower shades all from a single platform. Control4 integrates with over 300 brands, allowing you to control all your smart home solutions within one app to make your life simpler.
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Hands-Free Convenience
Experience true automation without lifting a finger. Wake up to rising shades and your favorite music, come home to a well-lit house, and say goodnight as Control4 automatically secures your home.

Live Comfortably with Climate Control

Achieve maximum comfort and energy efficiency with seamless control of thermostats and motorized shades. Save your preferred settings for easy access at the press of a button or with a simple voice command.
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Enjoy Year-Long Comfort

Enjoy home climate control that anticipates your needs, reduces energy waste, and integrates seamlessly with your other smart technologies.


Climate

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Integrate your HVAC, thermal systems, and fireplace for easy access to customized comfort settings. Create specific climate zones to tailor settings based on location, application, and each family member's preferences.

Blinds & Shades

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Control your shades and blinds from any spot in the house with motorized window treatments. Use automated settings driven by light and temperature sensors to boost both comfort and energy efficiency.

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Home Security System

Prioritizing your family's safety, Control4 integrates proactive security features into their systems. You’ll experience new peace of mind with customized alerts and remote access to locks, surveillance, and more.
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Protect Your Kansas City Home

Don't settle for static security solutions. Smart security systems anticipate threats and give you full control over your safety.


Monitor Your Kansas City Properties from Anywhere

Protect What Matters Most with Control4
Strengthen home security with Control4 solutions, allowing you to monitor locks, security cameras, garage doors, and lighting from anywhere in the world. Receive alerts for any security breaches, ensuring immediate response to potential risks.
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Gain Peace of Mind

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Custom Alerts and Notifications

Stay informed even when you're away. Set up alerts for motion sensor activity, entries, or unlocked doors and verify through video surveillance.

Intercom Everywhere

Easily interact with visitors at your front door no matter where you are. With Control4's Intercom Anywhere, you can speak with them, turn on lights, and unlock the door.
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Locks and Cameras

View surveillance footage and check lock statuses wherever you are. Create scenes to lock doors, activate landscape lighting, and arm your alarm all at once.
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Mockupancy

Worried about leaving your home unoccupied? Set up a "Mockupancy" scene to randomly turn lights on and off and open and close shades, making it appear as if someone is always home.

Plays Nicely with 11,000+ Third-Party Devices


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Intercom Anywhere

A Control4 installation includes a built-in intercom system, allowing you to communicate with guests or family members. No extra hardware is required—simply use the Intercom Anywhere feature on your existing touchpads or mobile app.
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Simplify Communication Across Your Property

Speak to your family across the house and lawn or greet visitors at the gate with the native intercom solution.


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Stay Connected to Home

Access your intercom system from your mobile phone to inform your babysitter you're running late or allow a delivery person to drop off a package indoors.
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Communicate Across Your Property

One touchscreen communicates with all others, letting the family know it's time for dinner or interacting with your video doorbell to welcome guests.
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More Than a Doorbell

Answer the door from anywhere in the world and remotely speak to guests, turn on lights, and disarm your alarm.
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Always Keeping You Connected

Access your intercom system on your mobile phone to tell your babysitter you're running late or let a delivery person drop off a package indoors.
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Invisible Design or Visible Perfection

Answer the door from anywhere in the world with Control4 doorbells that let you speak to guests, turn on lights and disarm your alarm.
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Seamless Integration & Effortless Control

One touchscreen communicates with all others to let the family know it's time for dinner or with your video doorbell to let in guests.

Control4 Universal Remotes

Effortlessly manage your entire home automation system with the Halo, Halo Touch, or SR-260 remote. These sleek, next-gen devices are highly customizable and designed for comfort, featuring an intuitive button layout for easy one-handed use. Enjoy a hassle-free experience as you create the perfect home ecosystem.
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Handheld Smart Home Control

This isn’t your standard TV remote.


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Consolidate All Remotes into One

Reduce clutter with a universal remote that controls lights, climate, AV, and all your smart home technology.
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A Next-Level Remote

Quickly locate your remote with alerts, reduce battery waste with recharging, and enjoy easy access to your favorite features in any room.

The Possibilities of Home Automation

Explore our interactive demo below to discover how a Control4 smart home can transform your daily life.
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Let in the Sun

Easily control motorized shades with a mobile app, schedules, or sensors to achieve perfect lighting and temperature every time.

Elevate Your Outdoors

Landscape lighting enhances your outdoor spaces and improves security and safety with light schedules and sensors.

It’s Showtime

Transform movie night with universal remotes that adjust lights, climate, shades, and AV to create the ideal viewing environment in seconds.

Automated Thermostats

Adopt an eco-conscious lifestyle with a thermostat that collaborates with motorized shades to maintain your desired temperature.

Easy Access Control

Press a single button at the end of the night or when leaving the house to lock all your doors for maximum efficiency and peace of mind.

Background Music

Effortlessly access and play your favorite music through high-performance speakers anywhere in your home.

Multi-Room Audio

Effortlessly play high-fidelity music through the entire house or enjoy it in select rooms. Whether from a popular on-demand streaming service or your private media collection, Control4 makes it easy to command your music your way.

Whole-Home Audio

Play high-fidelity music throughout your entire house or in selected rooms. Whether it's from a popular streaming service or your turntable, Control4 lets you control your music your way.



Let the Music Play

Enjoy tunes in every room and outdoors with a multi-room speaker system.
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SOUNDBARS

High-end soundbars not only please the eyes but also deliver superior sound quality compared to a traditional TV's speakers. Customized to your needs, these soundbars can be up to 82” long and feature custom paint matching and real-wood veneers.
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Hi-Fi Speakers

Triad high-fidelity speakers are meticulously crafted with top-quality materials to provide the ultimate acoustic experience in every space inside and outside your home. Each Triad speaker is custom-ordered, featuring elegant designs and custom paint matching to integrate beautifully into any home.
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DESIGNER SERIES SPEAKERS

Maintain your interior design with architectural speakers that mount flush with your walls and ceilings. These hidden speakers provide rich, high-quality sound from a four-inch speaker grill, filling your home with music without disrupting your décor.
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OUTDOOR SPEAKERS

Enjoy music outdoors with all-weather landscape speakers that offer exceptional sound in any environment. These premium satellites and subwoofers remain discreetly hidden among your gardens and foliage, delivering even sound coverage and scalability to fit virtually any backyard size.

Voice Control

With Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Josh.ai, you can control individual devices, multiple devices simultaneously, or your entire Control4 smart home using just your voice. Voice control offers an easy and convenient way for everyone to interact with your smart home.

Home Control Like Magic

Even your guests can effortlessly activate music, control individual or multiple lights, lock doors, or adjust the temperature—all without lifting a finger.


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Amazon Alexa
Your Control4 smart home system seamlessly connects with any Alexa-enabled device, including Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. After we install your system, you can tweak, add, and edit voice commands using Control4’s When >> Then personalization tool. Out of the box, enjoy immediate control of lights, locks, fans, and thermostats. With our assistance, you can expand voice control to include motorized window shades, entertainment, streaming music, and more advanced scenes.
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Google Assistant
Control4 is also compatible with any Google Assistant device, such as Google Home, Google Home Mini, and Android smartphones. Personalize your voice experience to rename devices, adjust commands, tweak Smart Home Privacy Guard™ settings, and disable commands. Google Assistant also enables stacked commands, like "Hey Google, dim the lights and play music.”
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When >> Then Automation
After our technicians complete the initial installation, personalize your lights to turn on or off at specific times, adjust with the seasons, or alternate while you're away. For example, "When the door locks, then turn on the entry light" or "When it’s sunrise, then turn off the outdoor lights." A Control4 4Sight subscription unlocks the award-winning When >> Then tool, allowing you to fine-tune your system to perfection.
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4Sight Subscription
Elevate your Control4 automated home with a yearly 4Sight subscription. Enjoy added personalization, voice control, and mobile access. Make lighting adjustments, check in on lights and cameras from anywhere, and manage your home remotely. Turn on lights for early-arriving guests or switch off lights accidentally left on by your kids, no matter where you are.
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Amazon Alexa
Your Control4 Smart Home works with any Alexa-enabled device, such as the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. After you’ve had your Control4 Smart Home installed by a professional, you’re able to tweak, add, and edit your voice commands using Control4’s homeowner personalization tool, When >> Then. Out of the box, you’ll enjoy immediate control of lights, locks, fans, and thermostats. With the help of your Control4 Professional, extend your voice control to include shades, entertainment, streaming music, and even more advanced scenes.
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Google Assistant
Your Control4 Smart Home works with any Google Assistant device, such as Google Home, Google Home Mini, and Android smartphones. Control4 customers can personalize their voice experience to change device names, adjust voice commands, adjust Smart Home Privacy Guard™ settings, and disable commands. Through Google Assistant, you can also stack commands. For instance, “Hey Google, lower the shades and turn off the kitchen lights.”
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When >> Then Automation
Once your dealer gets the initial install completed, you can personalize your lights to turn on or off at certain times of the day, adjust them with the seasons, or have them automatically alternate while you're out of town. For instance; When the door locks, Then turn on the entry light. Or When it’s sunrise, Then turn off the outdoor lights. A Control4 4Sight subscription unlocks this award-winning When >> Then homeowner personalization tool, so you can fine-tune your system until it’s just right.
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4Sight
If you're living in a Control4 Smart Home, get connected like never before. With a yearly 4Sight subscription, you’ll get the most out of your smart home with added hands-on personalization, voice control, and mobile access.In addition to giving you the ability to make your own lighting changes, 4Sight also enables you to check in on your lights and cameras from across town or across the globe. You’ll be able to remotely turn on the lights for your in-laws who have arrived earlier than expected or turn off lights that your kids left on by accident.

Home Theater

Create the perfect escape from the outside world with a custom home theater system that immerses you in the action of your favorite movies. Enjoy surround sound, a large display, and more for a truly cinematic experience.
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The Magic of Home Theater Control

Enjoy movies on the big screen—as they’re meant to be experienced.

Your Personalized Home Cinema

Transform your entertainment experience with a custom home cinema designed to your preferences. Enjoy movies, TV shows, and video games on the big screen from the comfort of your own home. Discover how a dedicated home theater can turn movie night into an immersive adventure.
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Dedicated Home Theater Room

Recreate the magic of the movies in the comfort of your own home. Every detail is designed to provide the ideal ambiance for a cinematic experience, from the seating to lighting.
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Home Theater Equipment

Achieve superior picture and sound quality with top-tier home theater equipment. Control4 collaborates with trusted brands in screens, projectors, TVs, and surround sound systems to deliver an immersive and high-quality entertainment experience.
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Unified Remote Control

Simplify your home theater setup with Control4, integrating all your devices into one user-friendly system. Manage streaming devices, video game consoles, speakers, and displays with ease using a single remote.
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Perfect Lighting for Showtime

Set the scene with the ideal theater ambiance. Use Control4 to dim the lights and close motorized shades, creating the perfect viewing environment. Control every lighting fixture from the comfort of your seat with the Control4 interface.