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Episode 207: Why Smart Heat Pump Water Heaters Should Be on Custom Integrators’ Radars
Messing with water heaters sounds like something that professionals who typically deal with hard wiring and electrical work would much rather avoid. However, in today's increasingly connected home, where every system appears to interact and communicate wi
Episode 206: Can a Virtual Smart Home Help Boost Your Business?
Explaining what's possible within the realm of custom integration is a constant challenge when speaking with an industry outsider, or a potential client for that matter. The biggest reason why? This is an experiential business. You have to "see it to beli
Episode 205: Exploring OpenAV Cloud’s Drive for Better Interoperability, Standardization
Launched earlier this year, OpenAV Cloud is a new platform, founded by some of the most influential brands in the pro-AV space, that promises to bring a simpler, easier, and more customer-focused experience to the connected AV industry. Their goal? More c
Episode 204: Dirac Dives Into Their Room Correction Technology as it Enters a New Era
Dirac has been making a push, recently, to get their room correction technology out into the market and improving more consumers' audio experience in a more streamlined and simpler way. Ahead of the official launch of the Dirac ART tech in Marantz and Onk
Episode 203: Audio Industry Veteran Rob Jones on Bringing Magnetar to North America
Leaning on his engineering expertise and audio industry savviness is nothing new to Rob Jonesnor is launching brands into the CEDIA channel. This go, Jones is helping lead the charge for Magnetar Audio as the brand enters the North American market. In th
Episode 202: Emerald Expo’s Jason McGraw Talks on CEDIA Expo, Trade Show Evolution, and More
Chopping it up with Jason McGraw is a favorite pastime of ours for many reason, not the least of which is his love and passion for the custom integration and technology industries. He's been in this space—on the trade show side—for many years, and his exp
Episode 201: Exploring the Evolution of Oasys, the CI Channel, and More with Hank Alexander
A little over three years since the rebranding of his groupand just a few weeks post the third-annual Oasys Summitwe sat down with Hank Alexander, director of Oasys Residential Technology Group. We dive into the progress his team has made over that time
Episode 200: Kaleidescape Chats About New Product, Design Excellence, and More
Tayloe Stansbury was just your average home entertainment consumer when he first met the Kaleidescape team. Their mission and commitmentand productultimately won him over to the point that he became Chairman and CEO of the company. We sat down with Stan
Episode 199: Azione Unlimited's Message of Controlling What You Can Control
Azione Unlimited Executive Director Patrick McCarthy is just about half-a-year into his new role, but the messages he's imparting onto the members of the group sound like someone who's been at the helm for half-a-decade. Having served in the shadows on an
Episode 198: Looking Back at 10 Years of Josh.ai
CEO Alex Capecelatro has steered the ship for Josh.ai since the company launched 10 years ago this year. In that time, Josh has evolved from a piece of forward-thinking software into a full-blown home automation platform. We sat down with Alex to reflect