Smart Home in Los Angeles
Smart locks, video doorbells and thermostats installed and set up, wired and app-ready.
The device is the easy part. In a house that predates 1950, the door has dropped a quarter inch, the doorbell chime runs on a transformer meant for a buzzer, and the thermostat has no neutral wire behind it. We check all three while the boxes are still sealed. Locks and doorbells run $100–$250, thermostats $120–$250, quoted flat and approved by you first.
Smart Home services
Upfront flat pricing on every job. You approve before we start.
Start with the door
Houses settle. Sixty years of that and the door is no longer square in its frame, so you lift the handle or lean on it to get the bolt home. A smart lock will not do that for you. The motor turns, the bolt catches the edge of the strike plate, the battery dies in a month and the app reports a jam most nights. We hang the door right, move the strike, deepen the mortise if the bolt needs room, and the electronics go on last.
Wiring older than the app
Your doorbell transformer may be a small unit sized for a mechanical chime, and a video doorbell pulls more than it can give, so the picture stutters or the unit reboots mid-ring. Your thermostat may have no neutral wire, which most smart models need for power. We open both up and tell you what is there before you buy the device. If the answer is a new circuit or new wire pulled through a wall, that belongs to a licensed electrician and we will say so.
Wi-Fi at the door
Old plaster over wire lath, and stucco with mesh under the coat, both cut Wi-Fi hard. A doorbell twelve feet from the router can sit at one bar. We check signal at the door first, and we mount to a backing plate instead of driving screws into bare stucco, where they chew out and leave the unit hanging by its wires. Renting or in a condo? We can keep the install reversible.
What customers say
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