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It is no secret that Art of Smart has been built off the back of Social Media content. We believe by showing the ins and outs of every installation and process that clients get the best understanding of what we offer as a business plus the confidence to know it is installed properly at all times – even when it is never to be seen again.

Check out some of our Social Media Profiles

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Myself and @artofsmartmedia are in the Art of Smar

Myself and @artofsmartmedia are in the Art of Smart studio again tomorrow evening filming some more truth bomb/ value videos 🙌🏼

One of our new clients has given us some wicked ideas for videos he wishes were available online.

What do you really want to know about a smart home?

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Drop it in the comments, or send a DM if you don’t want to ask publicly and they just might get answered 🔥👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

PS, this rooms getting its final touches this week, final bits in the building will be done over the next couple of months then will do the full building tour you all keep asking of this incredible facility we have built.

3.57 am. Should be exhausted and asleep after the

3.57 am. Should be exhausted and asleep after the week I’ve had and a long day/ night in the office. However I’m not.

My mind races at the best of times, however driving back from the office at 2am had what potentially are my best ideas to date. Not just one, or two.. but 7.

7 more strings to our bow that all just compliment what we do perfectly.

So excited and buzzing had to wake MRS AOS up and send a massive email essay to Noel our Busienss Development Manager and Jorja my PA so we can make it happen.

I said AOS 2.0 would be a game changer and it was. @aosacademy and @aosdistribution are thriving.

But THESE ideas.... on another level 🤯

Posting 3 job ads tomorrow. Keep your eyes pealed.

There’s level to this 🔥📈🚀 Insane engag

There’s level to this 🔥📈🚀

Insane engagement on Instagram this week. Over HALF A MILLION IMPRESSIONS! 😳

To be fair, been hammering the socials this week - apologies for being a drainer 😅 just so in awe and proud of where we’re at as a business. So many amazing projects on, our partners are killing it, and have so much awesome stuff going on at the moment in and around the business - just like to share as much as possible to show people what’s possible with Control4 and the products and brands we work with.

I try to not make the content too “business” based and keep our content as raw as possible, while making it helpful and informative and hopefully inspiring others along the way.

Thanks as always for the support, Rich x

Is it weird to be excited by plastic boxes 😅 A

Is it weird to be excited by plastic boxes 😅

Anyone that’s been following us will know I’ve become OBSESSED with organisation, planning, procurement, asset/ inventory management and all the other little bits to make all my staffs life easy, our jobs run like clock work, ultimately our clients happy and the business scalable all whilst proving all our working systems ready to licence our business world wide later this year.

These new boxes for the warehouse are 900L, 1200x1000x1000mm @auerpackaging crates from @solentplastics - The way this years shaping up, I’m going to have to get another 8 before long!

Their purpose is to hold stock designated for projects when they’ve been bought from our distribution business @aosdistribution or from one of our suppliers.

Our warehouse manager books all materials in on our warehouse computer (nothing comes in/ out the building without been recorded) all serial numbers, MAC addresses etc tracked - he will then allocate the stock for projects in our management software @simprosoftware - then add them to that projects box/s. He will then get the box down for our programmers to pre program everything before and then put all the kit back in boxes ready to go to site at a later date.

Efficient, bullet proof work flow ❤️

Lighting in the warehouse is @collingwoodled - soooo good 💡

😍 New iPhone 12 and 16 inch MacBook Pro and w

😍

New iPhone 12 and 16 inch MacBook Pro and work from home split screen set up for our new junior designer starting Monday.

And two new macs for my PA and warehouse Manager after finding out (the hard way) the Apple M1 chip doesn’t support twin external monitors and having to change them to the intel model instead 🙃

We run our office on split screens and docking stations, meaning people can work anywhere (although they all have their normal places😅) - it also means that that that or designers can edit documentation on site and out video guy can edit videos between filming and also so they can work from home easily enough which is something we’re flexible with; especially at the moment.

Office VOIP phones divert to their mobiles when working from home 😊

Having the best technology and infrastructure isn’t just what we recommend to our clients in their home’s, but something we implement in our business. Apple just works so seamlessly and effortlessly.

We use surface pros on site, however upgrading our programmers to macs too running parallels so they can use their iPad Pro’s as a split screen when on site for drawings and documentation while programming 😀

Have @lansafeltd over next week finessing our cloud server and looking at installing a physical server for all the 🔥 content @artofsmartmedia is filming.

One of the many reasons we insist that all of our

One of the many reasons we insist that all of our projects have a proper managed network, power management, remote access and OVRC/ BakPak is this...

Got a message of @mistajam that his system was mis behaving, so we could remotely access the site (which is important in these times of COVID to limit going into peoples homes where possible).

From our remote access we could see one of the devices had fallen offline, we rebooted the power to the rack and then we ran a remote network scan and found the device had reverted back to DHCP hence it not working.

DHCP reservation set on the device and reconfigured in Control4 and all back working within two hours with no charge to the client as it’s covered by AOS aftercare.

Tech will throw a wobbler every now and again, make sure you have a company in place who will look after the system efficiently after they’ve shifted the boxes.

AOS aftercare is open 9am to 11pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year should it be required our clients.

Few upgrades for a client who’s system were taki

Few upgrades for a client who’s system were taking over in Preston in Lancaster.

As you can see the rack is an absolutely shambles - and I’ve bent my golden rule for this client....

Usually on a take over it’s all or nothing for us, however this clients just bought the house and inherited a shambles.

He stumbled across our YouTube and has been seeing the power of Control4 but left unsure with what he has. We’ve planned an upgrade and complete overhaul for over the next 12 months and will be documenting in a mini series on our YouTube for anyone with similar woes to relate.

For now - OS upgrade including a couple of EA1s, video intercom and T4 touch screen to get the system back working and will completely gut it over the year.

Clients been hooked to our YouTube, we went to go and show him how to personalise Control4 OS3 and he had already done it as he had watched out OS3 personalisation video. Chuffed to bits. Content works. Clients happy and more importantly wife’s happy!

Work from home here to stay? You betcha! The world

Work from home here to stay? You betcha! The world has changed and office life will never be the same again.

We’re adapting clients smart home’s to suit this.

In this example the gate video intercom uses the house speaker system as the “ding dong” and will play at different volume levels around the house at different times of day.

If it’s 9-5 and your dining table is now your new office for zooms and teams calls you won’t be disturbed by an awkward ding dong 😅

This house is also set up to not do it after 8pm when the kids are in bed and also has an over ride in the service page too. 😊

If your one of our clients/ AOS aftercare clients email support@aos-group.co.uk and one of the team will log in remotely and add this for you - free of charge - covered by our “minor tweaks” clause.

In Staffordshire on a final pre take over survey.

In Staffordshire on a final pre take over survey.

Been keeping this system alive for the clients for 12 months. Was supposed to do rip it out in March then COVID hit.

Two of the nicest clients ever, they constantly DM messages support on Instagram, comment, like and support our posts and recommend us to their friends.

Love the to do list based on content seen on our social media. 🥰

Looking forward to getting this ripped out, fixed up and upgraded. Before we start work on the pool house, insane outdoor scheme and office/ car garage that is absolute goals 😍

Nothing but respect for clients like this, worked hard, taken risks and deserve to enjoy their beautiful home. Stuff like this just inspires me so much and clients resonate the journey I am on in my business. Blessed ❤️

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Want to see what our guys get up to? Some of them have Social Media too!

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