Josh.ai Smart Home Automation in Guelph, ON

Older houses in St. Patrick’s Ward, Exhibition Park and around the Catholic Hill have plaster walls, tall windows and few spare outlets. A Josh Micro on a side table needs only power and Wi-Fi, so voice control can arrive without opening a wall. Where you’d like motorized shades on those tall front windows or dimmers in the parlour, we look at the wiring first and tell you up front if anything needs an electrician.

When the main floor and a basement suite share one building, each household can have its own Josh App logins and its own scenes. The owner keeps shared items such as the porch, the side-yard path lights and the laundry room fan, and nobody upstairs has to knock downstairs about a light left on.

In Westminster Woods, Pine Ridge, Clairfields and Kortright Hills, homes usually have open-concept main floors, an attached garage and a backyard facing a trail. A typical setup gives the family room a “movie night” scene that lowers the shades, dims the pot lights and turns on the TV, a schedule that lights the front of the house at dusk, and a “goodnight” command that closes the garage, arms the alarm and turns everything off downstairs.

For houses in Old University and off Gordon Street and Stone Road that sit half empty over the winter break and the summer, scheduled actions can bring hallway and porch lights on each evening, and the thermostat can be set back from the owner’s phone. Tenants can be given their own app access and removed when the lease turns over.