Easy Living with Technology is proud to offer QMotion Motorized Shades to our clients in St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and the Tampa Bay area. Known for their quality and seamless integration into modern homes, these shades elevate comfort and style while simplifying light control and privacy.

Why Choose QMotion Shades?

QMotion’s motorized shades bring unparalleled convenience to your home with no wiring required. This makes installation easy in any room without invasive electrical work—ideal for new builds and retrofit projects. These shades operate on long-lasting, battery-powered motors that provide an incredibly quiet and smooth experience, allowing you to control the ambiance of your home with minimal effort.

Premium Fabrics for Every Aesthetic

QMotion offers an impressive selection of high-quality fabrics, including Blackout, Room Darkening, and Solar Shades. Whether you’re looking to block out the bright Florida sun, reduce glare, or maintain a balance of natural light and privacy, QMotion’s diverse fabric options have you covered. All materials are designed to withstand the unique demands of Florida’s climate while adding elegance to your living spaces.

Effortless Integration with Smart Home Systems

These smart shades from QMotion easily integrate with Easy Living’s whole-home automation systems. With a simple button press or voice command, you can remotely adjust your shades or integrate them into your smart home system. Imagine asking Alexa or Google Assistant to lower your shades during peak sunlight hours or adjusting them from your phone while away—QMotion makes this possible, enhancing security and convenience.

Experience the Luxury of Motorized Shades

Known for their 5-year warranty and cutting-edge features, QMotion Motorized Shades are designed for homeowners who value quality, style, and ease of use. Contact Easy Living with Technology today to learn more about our QMotion offerings and how these shades can transform your home in St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and beyond.

Easy Living with Technology partners with the best products and technology to provide the utmost quality and comfort for your home. One of these is the German-made, DoorBird, which is a best selling IP Video Door Station. This unique high-tech doorbell completely changes the game in home automation.

DoorBird allows you to answer your doorbell from anywhere in the world. You can see your visitors, speak with them, and open the door by using your smartphone or tablet. DoorBird has a high-end 180° infrared motion sensor that can alert you or light up the front yard before the visitor has rung the doorbell. Not only is DoorBird convenient, it is much safer for your home. DoorBird records all interaction and provides peace-of-mind as to who is ringing your doorbell, plus you can interact with the visitor wherever you are.

DoorBird has a guarantee for the highest levels of quality and production standards with a chic design including high-quality stainless steel models. It is temperature-resistant and withstands less than -4°F to over 104°F, and also includes rainwater protection. DoorBird works through advanced encryption technologies by connecting itself to your Internet router using Wi-Fi or through an Ethernet cable.

DoorBird offers a wide range of compelling advantages that other products on the market cannot compare to. It allows for multiple users, cloud recording, free visitor history with HD-image, two-way audio, easy installation, HD-video and hemispheric lens, easy installation, minimum recommended Internet upstream bandwidth, and more.

Smart Home News

Monday, 12 November 2018 

Imagine a home where your music, lighting, climate control, and security are perfectly in sync—this is the reality with Sonos and Savant working together. Combining these two systems lets you control your entire home from a single, unified interface. The result is an automated experience that enhances how you interact with every aspect of your home. Let’s explore how bringing Sonos and Savant together can transform the way you live.

Overview of Sonos and Savant Integration

Sonos and Savant have teamed up to deliver a smart home experience that makes managing your home more straightforward than ever. By integrating the two systems, you can manage your music and other smart home devices through one easy-to-use platform, whether on the Savant App or with the Savant Remote. This partnership combines Sonos’s exceptional audio quality and Savant’s powerful automation features, giving you the best of both worlds.

Key Benefits of Integration:

• Centralized Control: Manage all aspects of your home—music, lighting control, temperature, security, and more—from a single, unified interface. No more juggling multiple apps or remotes.

Check out this time lapse of Kevin and Al Installing our largest Home Cinema to date, a 215" Stewart FilmScreen!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aP61MgKAYo&feature=youtu.be

Kevin demonstrating how Vantage Lighting Automation can be integrated with QMotion and BTX Custom Shading systems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGN_SJvbcMs&feature=youtu.be

Check out this photo series of a stealth Technology Closet we installed in a Montana riding arena! Technology Closets© offer a neat and concealed location to store all of your tech gear. Check out our portfolio to learn more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYT3ZRJL9Pk&feature=youtu.be

Our Theaters are just simply fabulous! A good Theater, with an IMMERSIVE Screen, now moves you into what's truly considered a Home Cinema! These EXTRA LARGE movie screens are called 2.35 or 2.40 Cinemascope Filmscreens. With special lens and motorized masking panels on the screen, you'll never watch your "Feature Presentation" with those hidious BLACK BARS again! Plus, our best speaker packages will make your Cinema an actual THX CERTIFIED ROOM, meaning the actual SOUND going into your ears, at your seating position, meets the THX Sound Curve - The Best Available Sound. At this level, it's over the top fun, impressive, moving, and you can FEEL it. It's NOT just LOUD, as in "Turn it Down!", it's way better than that - and ANYONE can appreciate this type of Quality Sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq_3P0FRyW8&feature=youtu.be

A wonderful video shot by our friends and clients Frank Robertson & Kathy Fountain showing off their beautiful Family Room audio video system brought to you by Easy Living with Technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRjrHdIr2U&feature=youtu.be

Check out the highlights from this year's CEDIA event in San Diego!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPjqs_yBbDY&feature=youtu.be

Easy Living now has two CEDIA Certified Profesisonals on staff! Why should you hire a CEDIA CERTIFIED Professional? Well....we have a certain set of skills...! And we LOVE making the best of technology! President & Founder, Mike Stram, was recently recognized as a CEDIA Certified Designer and Brian Harding is a CEDIA Certified Installer. Why should hire a CEDIA Certified Professional? Because we deliver the BEST in Home Technology. 

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Kevin and Brian for receiving their Level 2 Installer CEDIA Certifications!

Staff from Easy Living flew to Denver to enjoy the CEDIA Expo.  This slideshow is a compilation of FUN and OUTSTANDING photos of products that are now HOT on the market! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7WcSY75H1s&feature=youtu.be&list=UU0GezyowJyyxvWsIIO8UErw

Michael Stram and Robyn Huber were named CEDIA'S ROI “Instructors Of The Year” from positive reflections of our guests and class participants. 

Registered Outreach Instructors (ROI) are Certified Industry Instructions through our industry group CEDIA, and we offer approx. 20 different OFFICIAL CEU accredited courses to Industry Professionals such as AIA & CRAN, AIBD, ASID & IDCEC, NAHB & NARI with relevant high quality education while upholding the highest standards.

Check out this video showcasing BTX brand shades that have been integrated into our Vantage brand Lighting Control systems! These BTX shades feature Vizela 1% Openness Factor and Somfy Quiet Motors with Wireless Control!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khPXoNEti0&feature=youtu.be&list=UU0GezyowJyyxvWsIIO8UErw

Over the past couple of weeks Easy Living has been working diligently, flying back and forth to Montana, to continue to assemble one of our biggest projects!  Previously, we have wired this client's home, business, and motor yachts.  Now, in the Ranch in Montana is getting Savant and Vantage Lighting and Automation Systems in every building!  The ranch job included building a 186" Stewart Screen theater, which can be viewed in the time-lapsed video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyQcgMmQPcQ&feature=youtu.be

Superbowl the best way – 161” of the immaculate interception !

You never regret buying the BEST…

ToneCase Hardwood Cabinets utilize Leon Speaker’s renowned design and craftsmanship to stylize and conceal SONOS speakers.  Handcrafted out of solid White Oak or Black Walnut, these cabinets are sized to house the SONOS speakers while leaving access for all controls and utility management.  The solid hardwood cabinet and handstretched fabric grills further add a richness to the tonality of the speakers, elevating the overall experience. Available exclusively at Easy Living with Technology. 

Recently, Easy Living hosted a Technology Day for the Florida Chapter of American Institute of Building Designers (AIBD).  Mike taught two official CEU acreditted classes in association with Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA). Our guest speaker and presentaion was presented by Will Paleveda of LumaStream Systems in St. Petersburg. The day was a huge success! Mike Keese and Jim Lucia presented Mike Stram with a plaque for his hard work and dedicated service! 

Congrats to our President, Mike Stram, and all of the Easy Living staff for receiving the Savant Commitment Award! Out of 214 dealers, we were one of ten to receive the award for our dedicated commitment, training, and submittals for features and ideas!
Congrats and THX!

Easy Living is excited to share that Savant has announced their introduction of an all-new Smart Host, as well as an elegantly reinvented Metropolitan wireless lighting system! ALSO - Since Savant is the only company that uses Apple hardware and has built software that models itself on Apple’s ease of use and attractiveness, the Apple Watch is something up-and-coming for Savant users! 

With built-in control ports to connect both smart and standard devices, the all-new Smart Host is the ideal foundation for most homes. 

-- Enables wired and wireless control in up to 12 rooms

-- Enhanced performance for faster start-ups

-- Compact form factor for easier installations

-- Pairs with the Savant App to provide system administration and monitoring 

Savant also announced the reinvented Metropolitan wireless lighting line, consisting of switches, dimmers, fan controllers, and keypads offering both dimming and volume control. Its elegant design is compatible with industry-standard faceplates and features a modern look perfectly suited for discriminating designers and homeowners. Metropolitan's adaptive design also enables the products to work automatically with almost any lighting set-up, which leads to a smoother installation experience.