Push Control System by Schneider-Electric

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Have you been watching the commercials for the new Block 2015 lately?

Well you would've seen that the contestants are putting in the new Push Control Systems by Schneider-Electric which leaves the judges gobsmacked and wanting one!

Well I can vouch for their amazement and envy because we have it in our home and control our home theatre system including the sky panels and wall lights, and even our outdoor blinds!  It truly is amazing!

You can control everything from, your lights, fans, outdoor security, garden lighting, alarm and sooooooo much more.

Controlled via the App that you can download from the App store on your iPad and iPhone...booya!

Short of cooking dinner and doing the dishes, it's gotta be the best thing since sliced bread...ahhhh the luxuries!

watching normal t.v on the big screen

controlled form both the iPad and iPhone 

you can control it to just have the sky panels on or...

with both the sky panels and wall lights. We had it set up so when you press play to start the movie, the wall lights dim and then go out after 40 seconds...just like the cinema!

Due to us having our audio equipment in the linen cupboard (adj to the back wall of the theatre) it makes it easier to control the projector right from your seat as it's all infrared woohoo... makes me so lazy lol

'Gold Class Cinema'...finished

Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since I last wrote a post how slack of me! Well we finally finished our star panels in the theatre and they really do come to life when watching a movie.

It truly does feel like your watching a movie under the stars! It wasn't complete without complications though, you all know the drama with the 'missing'panel I told you about earlier, well that arrived a couple of days later so we were able to continue.

That's when we discovered the next hurdle! After putting up the third panel (the air vent), we were placing the 4th panel up when I realised it didn't have the connection needed. Grrrr, why didn't I pick this up earlier? So after ringing the sales guy John (again), he said that we can take one from one of the last panels and by the time we get to putting those up, he would have one mailed to us by priority post.

 Now since this was on the Friday, we of course had to wait until the Monday to put the last 2 panels up. Now the other dilemma that we faced was the steel studs! For those of you who have a steel frame home, you would know some of the nightmare issues these frames can cause, but alas, we resolved it no problem (thanks to my genius brain).

 As we were putting each panel up, we had to screw the 4 corners to the ceiling, now these screws are meant for timber frames (studs) so we faced the joys of pre-drilling holes to allow for the screw to go through to the studs....grrrr, what a pain!

 By the time we got to putting up the 4th panel, I could tell Geoff was getting anoyed so I said (not knowing I was a genius), "Why don't we just place strong double sided tape (from bunnings) and a bit of liquid nails (what a fab invention that is) on the panels instead of screwing them in?"

 Geoff looked at me (what I thought to be puzzled) and said "Your a genius", so that's what we did! Before we knew it, we were up to the 14th panel (this was the one we had to wait for the connection for) in no time at all woohoo!

 So instead of it taking us hours to do, we did it in less than 2 hours and ended up putting the last 2 panels in on the Monday night.

just watching normal T.V

even with the lights on, you can still see the stars

'Show Time'

The Mysteriously Missing Sky Panel...

I rang John (the sales consultant) from ScreenScience yesterday and told him that we were missing a panel with our order. He in fact couldn't apologise enough and said that he'll look into it when he gets back into the office.

A couple of hours later, he rang with some good news.

Whilst he couldn't find (probably missed out on getting made) our missing panel which was a mystery to him, he said that when he go back into the office, he went through our plan (sketch) and although it was numbered 1 through to 15, he couldn't work out why the number 2 panel wasn't packed with the rest.

I told him that the number 2 panel that we did have, was obviously marked wrong as this had the hole to be cut out for the air vent which should be panel 3.

After apologising again for the mishap, he said that he will have one made asap and hopes to have it couriered to us either today or tomorrow at the very latest...woohoo!

It's just one of those unfortunate things I guess, an honest mistake and I'm happy that they'll have it rectified so quickly.

So now, we can get on with the installation (on the weekend) and finally have our cinema finished.

So until then...have an awesome week lovely people

Gold Class Cinema...part 2

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We (finally) received our star panels on Thursday, and of course I wanted to open the boxes right there and then but I waited until Geoff got home that night so we could open the box together...ohhhhh how exciting!