Smart Home, a house that does the boring parts
It usually starts with a drawer of devices that never talked to each other. The hard part is not the work - it is that every smart home company sounds equally sure of itself, and you get one guess. We check licence and insurance before we introduce anyone, and we record the date we checked.
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Smart Home in short
Smart home services range from a single device installation to whole-home design, structured wiring, in-wall device installation, network setup, programming and ongoing support. Electrical work needs a licensed electrician; network and integration work is a separate skill set, and one company does not always do both well.
Angi's 2026 data puts smart home systems at roughly $200 to $1,525 for typical installations, with the total depending heavily on how many devices you buy and whether an electrician is involved. The costs people miss are labor for line-voltage work, network upgrades, and recurring subscriptions for camera storage and monitoring.
Explore Smart Home
Everything we publish on smart home, grouped the way homeowners actually search - not the way a company would organise it.
- Services 17 services - replacement, repair, and specialty work 17 pages
- Cost What smart home actually costs in 2026, by type and by city 194 pages
- Problems Something wrong? Start here 8 pages
- Comparisons Option A vs. B, compared honestly 7 pages
- Guides In-depth guides on smart home, written and reviewed by pros 10 pages
- Tools Estimate your project cost in under a minute 9 pages planned
- Materials 6 materials - cost, lifespan and where each one fits 6 pages planned
- Brands 11 smart home brands, compared on price and warranty 11 pages planned
- Decision Guides Which option is actually right for your home 2 pages
- Checklists Step-by-step checklists before you hire 4 pages
- Maintenance Keep it working - schedules and upkeep 1 page
- Components Every component, explained 13 pages
- Financing Ways to pay over time, and what they really cost 1 page
- Permits Permit rules and what they cost 1 page
- Codes Codes and permits that apply to this work 5 pages planned
- Insurance What insurance covers, and what it does not 1 page
- Warranties What the warranty actually covers 1 page
- Research The data behind our recommendations 7 pages planned
- FAQ Answers to the most common smart home questions 1 page
- Glossary Smart home terms explained in plain English 13 pages
- AI Tools Describe the problem, get a plain-English answer 1 page planned
How a pro gets in front of you
Most sites sell your number to whoever pays the most for it. We do not - your details reach only the smart home companies matched to your job. We are building licence and insurance checks on top of that, and we will publish each one with the date it was performed rather than claim it in advance.
A few pros, never a list
Your details go to the small number of local companies matched to your job, and to nobody else. They are not sold on.
No paid placement
A company cannot buy a better position in a match or in our rankings. Where we rank, the method is published so you can re-score it yourself.
Check the licence yourself
Ask for the number and look it up on your state board’s public register. We are building this into the match; it is not running yet.
Ask the insurer, not the contractor
Get liability and workers’ compensation certificates sent to you by the insurance agency direct. A forwarded PDF proves nothing about today.
What smart home usually costs
Ranges, with the source and the date underneath. Anyone quoting you a single national number is guessing, and you should know enough to notice.
No verified smart home price ranges published yet.
We don’t publish a cost until we can show the data behind it. If you need a
number today, the quote form gives you real prices from local companies.
HomeMatchup vs. a lead site vs. doing it yourself
Three ways to get this work done. Here’s what each one actually gives you.
| HomeMatchup | Typical lead site | DIY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many companies call you | A short, named shortlist you agreed to | Often 4-5+ at once, sold to whoever buys the lead | None - the work is on you |
| Licence & insurance | Self-reported today - we tell you how to check it and are building the check in | Usually self-reported by the contractor | Your own permits and liability |
| What it costs you | Free - pros pay us, and only for a real match | Free, but your number is resold | Materials plus your time |
| Price guidance before you talk | Published ranges with the data behind them | Rarely shown before you hand over details | You research it yourself |
| If it goes wrong | A named company, and a record of who received your job | Hard to trace which site sold the lead | No recourse |
Describes how HomeMatchup operates and the common lead-generation model. Not a claim about any named competitor.
What people say after they’ve hired
We’d rather show you nothing than show you someone else’s reviews.
Plenty of sites fill this space with reviews scraped from elsewhere, or written for them. We don’t. The first smart home review on this page will come from a homeowner we matched, after their work was finished and paid for.
- Only from homeowners we actually matched
- Only after the job is complete
- Published unedited, including the bad ones
- 1You get matchedA few checked pros, free
- 2Work gets doneCheck their licence and insurance first
- 3We ask youOnce, after completion
- 4It appears hereExactly as you wrote it
Smart Home questions, answered
The questions homeowners ask us most about smart home.
Smart Home materials
The materials you'll actually be choosing between.
The wrong smart home hire costs more than the right one.
Smart home is where good products become an unmaintainable system. Integration, not hardware, is what you are actually buying. Getting matched takes about a minute, costs nothing, and you can walk away from every quote you receive.
Free · No obligation · Only your matched pros get your details