Homebuttons is Bill Monahan, bringing his expertise to  to homes around Southern Georgian Bay

Homebuttons is a unique home electronics service created to help homeowners cope with the complications of modern electronics. With over twenty years’ of electronics expertise, I serve the Southern Georgian Bay area, coming to your home by appointment to offer advice, troubleshooting and installation of your electronics.  I provide service to Meaford, Thornbury, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Owen Sound, Wiarton, and parts between.

Here are five examples of how I can help.

1. Setting Up A Home Entertainment Centre

Home entertainment systems can mean complicated installation and setup made easy with help from Homebuttons

 

• You like the 2-zones so that you can play one thing in the Great Room and something different on the deck.  But you are having trouble getting it to work
• Your new system has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Internet streaming to give you access to the latest options, but you also want it to work with your legacy turntable and tube amp for superlative analog audio.  That means resolving different connectors and incompatible working systems.
• You’ve brought home a TV you would like to have wall-mounted by someone who will show up and complete the job efficiently and neatly, as soon as possible.
• You have brought a complete 7.1 Dolby Atmos entertainment centre with immersive sound from your previous residence.  You had unplugged everything and stored it in boxes.  Now you want someone to put it all back together and make it work in your new home.
• You are replacing your Smart TV with one that’s newer, bigger and brighter.  You want to remove the old one to mount it in another room and wall-mount the new TV in its place, with the cables neatly hidden behind the wall.
• You have purchased a home that is already pre-wired for multi-room audio, with recessed speakers and volume controls.  You want to find out what is required for you to get full benefit from the system.
• You managed to get everything installed and working up to a point, except for one little snag.  All you need is someone with more experience to help guide your troubleshooting.
• Yesterday it worked. Today it doesn’t. Why?

2. Defining the Security That Best Suits Your Needs

There is a vast galaxy of choices and applications related to electronic security, now intimately linked to our phone app reality.  Homebuttons can help you weigh the pros and cons of dozens of competing technologies. Start by defining what you are looking for.

 

• You’ve always used the tried and true ULC listed security system with central monitoring.  You want a system that works the same but has the extra advantages of today’s wireless technologies.  You want the reliability of a monitoring station to take on the responsibility of responding to alarms.
• Whether you are home or not, day or night, you want to know immediately if someone is on your property and, through your smart phone, take the appropriate response.  You are saving monthly fees by being your own security monitor.
• You understand that security means more than intrusion and you want to be protected in case of fire, flood, gas, etc.
• Visual surveillance, to you, is the most direct and preferable form of security.  You want a group of cameras strategically placed to provide video coverage of your property.  You want secure access to the data within your home with user friendly software that allows you to pinpoint suspicious video quickly.  You want to be able to tie in the cameras with your intrusion system so one can be triggered by the other for enhanced security.
• You feel that, despite the advantages of a professionally monitored security system, it provides little day-to-day return unless it can be integrated with smart home devices like programmed lighting, smart thermostats, and smart locks.  You would like to add smart modules to the security system, to include things like cameras, garage door openers, motorized window coverings.
• You are looking for energy savings as part of your security system plan.
• You have special concerns because this is a second home that is often left empty in relative isolation.
• Your home is partitioned into separate uses or residents, and you need to have a security system that allows individual control with collective protection in one account.
• You have issues with Wi-Fi related to reliability, hacking, power supply, and you would prefer a closed system in which all information is transmitted through cable infrastructure within your home.
• You want a self-contained camera to capture and store images and video in a location that does not have power or a cable connection to a hub.
• You want cameras that take advantage of built-in intelligence to distinguish between people, cars and pets, screen out areas you don’t want recorded, download data compatible with police forensic investigation equipment.

3. Finding Helpful Tech Expertise

Where do you locate local help for a home visit or a telephone consult to answer your questions? Call Homebuttons.

 

• A call to a manufacturer or service provider will entail waiting on hold, questions about date and place of purchase, upsells and security barriers before you can get a simple answer to a simple question.
• Many retailers, service providers and manufacturers save on personnel by relying on robotic chat lines that will only work for you if you frame the question properly.
• Electronics no longer come with extensive manuals. Instead you get a small guide with pictograms that can be read universally but are often simplified to the point of confusion.
• You are not sure how to frame your question so you need to talk to someone who first listens and clarifies your problem before suggesting solutions.
• The best you can get when calling the tech help line is that the problem must be at your end.
• The hassles you are having with your electronics were not on your schedule for today.  They are wasting your time and you just want someone knowledgeable to take care of them.
• You want to know for yourself the solution to your problems, to get accurate feedback from someone with more experience in this field.

4. Planning a New Build For Today and Tomorrow’s Electronics

How do you make sure that your new home will meet your family’s electronic needs now and into the future? Consult with Homebuttons before you build.

 

• You are building your forever home and you want to make sure it works with today’s electronics and those in the future
• You rely heavily on wireless technologies and you want to make sure that they will work in all areas of your new home
• You want to understand what types of cables still matter in home electronics and be sure that they are included in your new home design
• You want high-quality sound distributed throughout your home, delivered from integrated speakers and playing content that includes both analog sources and digital streaming
• Your new home will have a dedicated home theatre with fully immersive sound, acoustic treatment, automated lights and blinds
• You enjoy outdoor living with audio and video included so you want to plan for the ultimate summer experience
• Within the next thirty years you will be a senior and you will want your new home to provide safety and comfort well into your advanced years

5. Independent Living Extended In Your Own Home

 

The last thing you want to do is leave your familiar, comfortable home, but what can you do to make it safe in the coming years? Homebuttons has been helping people stay in their homes for fifteen years.

 

• You feel safe and comfortable at home but your children worry about you and need a way to monitor your safety without interfering with your lifestyle
• You have been admitted to the hospital and the doctor doesn’t want you to return to your home alone without some type of personal emergency alarm
• You are on a waiting list for bed in a seniors’ home but in the meantime you need something that you can use on a short-term rental to ensure you are safe at your home
• You are living in your own home alone with good support from neighbours, family and personal care givers, but if you fall when you are alone at night you need an instant way to call for help
• Aspects of your home present hazards as you advance in age. You would like a consultation that can suggest small changes to improve your health, safety, sleeping and quality of life within your existing home
• The costs of a seniors’ home is prohibitive. You and your family are looking for a way to allow you to stay in your home as a cost-saving measure and a way to keep your investment in the property

Call me today to find help for your particular electronic challenges

519-270-2797