Irvine’s Home Automation Company and Control4 Showroom

Your lights, shades, music, and TVs should not each need their own app. At the Launch Systems headquarters and Control4 showroom in Irvine, you can see home automation bring them all together on one keypad.

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An Irvine Home Automation Company You Can Visit

Most Irvine homes already house good technology, but it tends to arrive one piece at a time: a speaker app here, a thermostat app there, a remote for every TV screen. Launch Systems is the Orange County home automation company that ties all of those pieces together, and we do it from our headquarters and Control4 Certified Showroom on Sky Park Circle in Irvine. As a certified Control4 installer, we have designed, installed, and supported Control4 home automation systems for homeowners across Orange County since 2008.

Control4 is the platform that lets lighting, shades, audio, video, climate, and security settings respond to your commands with one intuitive control system, accessible via a wall keypad, voice command, or your phone. When you want to talk through project ideas, you are talking with the Irvine team that designs and supports it.

Smart Home Installation for Irvine, California Homes

Nobody calls us because they want more technology. They want a home that is easier and more enjoyable to live in, and each solution below earns its place by removing a daily annoyance or time-wasting activity.

Smart Home Automation

If you are tired of tapping through apps to start your evening, smart home automation puts lighting, climate, audio, and security behind preset scenes that you trigger from a tap or swipe.

Audio and Video

When someone wants music in the kitchen while the game is on in the den, room-by-room audio and video design lets each space play its own source or share one.

Home Theater

If movie night is an event for your family and friends, a home theater is worth planning. Customize features around the room's size, seating, and acoustics.

Motorized Window Treatments

Many local homes, like those in Orchard Hills, have wide windows with views of city lights and sunsets, which is wonderful until afternoon glare takes over the room. Motorized shades lower on a schedule or with a tap, so you keep the view and lose the uncomfortable glare.

Wi-Fi and Networking

A dropped video call or a stalled stream is worth fixing at the source, because everything else depends on the network. Our Wi-Fi and home networking designs can carry whole-home technology systems.

Home Security

When you want to see who is at the door without walking to it, home security cameras connect to the same system that runs your lighting and scenes for more comprehensive safety and protection.

Outdoor Audio and Video

If your evenings end up on the patio, outdoor audio and video solutions bring music and a screen outside and connect them to the rest of the house.

Smart Lighting Control Design in Irvine

Walk through your home at night and count how many switches you touch on your way from the garage to the bedroom. Lighting control reduces that long trek to one tap and sets each room's desired brightness and warmth to suit the time of day.

Most homeowners notice lighting first, and it shapes how every room feels. Our smart lighting control design work plans Lutron fixtures, keypads, and scenes one room at a time, so the right light is a single press away.

Home Automation for an Existing Irvine Home

If you love the house you have, you don’t have to embark on an expensive remodeling project to make it smarter. Many Turtle Rock homes have been expanded and updated over the years, often leaving a mix of older and newer wiring, so we begin by assessing what is already in the walls. That is also why we map out wiring and equipment locations before anyone picks up a tool, so the finished system fits your home and lifestyle. Our approach to retrofit projects sorts the work into what goes in now to give you the functionality you desire, and explains what you can add on later during a remodel:

Lighting and shade controls and connecting the devices you already own can often be installed without extensive reworking or cutting into walls.
New speaker wiring, a dedicated theater, and a purpose-built network are easiest while the walls are open.

Building or Buying New in Irvine?

Homes in the Great Park Neighborhoods and throughout Irvine are still being completed, and if yours is one of them, the stage you are at determines what is simple and what will require a remodel later. Our design-and-build process starts with your plans, so bring your floor plans to our first meeting, even if a model home is all you have seen so far.

Stage	What we can do	Why the timing matters
Walls still open	Plan and run cabling, place keypads, and locate shade wiring and equipment	Everything goes where it belongs without cutting drywall
Before you move in	Test and program the system, set up your scenes, and prepare your network	You arrive at a home that already works
After you move in	Add systems room by room, and connect what you bring with you	It takes more planning around finished surfaces

Outdoor Entertainment for Irvine Evenings

Many Quail Hill homeowners are a short walk from trails and open space, so the day often ends back on the patio, still outdoors. Outdoor audio, a weather-rated patio shade, and landscape lighting on an automated schedule turn that patio into the best room of the house.

We place speakers to cover your seating area and connect everything to your outdoor living smart home scenes, so one tap starts the evening.

Home Automation for Architects and Homebuilders in Irvine

You have spent months getting a custom home just right, and a shade pocket or keypad location settled late can undo some of that work. On custom lots in Shady Canyon, we like to start from your drawings. We work from your schematics to plan wiring and equipment locations before framing begins, then coordinate around your build schedule so no other trade is left waiting on us.

For architect partnerships, we supply CAD and Revit documentation that your team can drop into existing plans, and we plan recessed alcoves, flush keypad locations, and other fine details related to technology integration early.

Homebuilder partnerships get the same schedule discipline. If you want to see the options in person, ask us about a design-focused walkthrough of our showroom.

What to Expect When Working With Launch Systems

Before you hire anyone for your smart home installation, you want to know how it will go and what it will cost. We work with real-world budgets and realistic project schedules, and if there is a smarter way to meet your goals at a lower cost, we will tell you.

Our price estimator gives you a starting point, and you can meet the people behind the work on our company page or read what clients say on our reviews page.

Discovery

It starts with a one-on-one conversation about your lifestyle, interests, and budget.

System Design

We turn that conversation into a proposal that explains what each room will do, and we adjust it with your feedback before moving on.

Engineering

Once you approve the design, we create CAD documentation with the wiring, equipment locations, and rack layouts our technicians follow.

Installation

Our technicians install and test every device against those documents, and we care about neat cable management as much as we do about the finished result.

Service and Support

We keep all documentation for future service, and our service plans include 24/7 support, preventative remote monitoring, priority scheduling, and more.

Tour Our Irvine Control4 Showroom

A brochure cannot tell you whether a keypad feels right or how a scene changes a room. Our showroom is one of the few Control4 Certified Showrooms in Southern California, where a member of our design team walks you through live demos of lighting and shading, multi-room audio, home theater, and security, at your pace.

Tours are one-on-one and custom-planned around what you want to see, so homeowners, architects, and builders each get a different walkthrough.

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Home Automation FAQs for Irvine Homeowners

Can I see Control4 working in Irvine before I decide?

Yes. Our Irvine showroom is a Control4 Certified Showroom, and a member of our design team walks you through live demos of the systems you want to evaluate. Tours are one-on-one and unhurried, and you can request one through the contact form on this page.

How much does home automation cost in Orange County?

It depends on the size of the home, how many rooms and systems you want, and whether the walls are open. A single room with lighting and shades is a very different project from a whole-home system with a theater. We design within your budget parameters and tell you if there is a smarter way to reach your goals for less. Our price estimator gives you a place to start.

Can you add home automation to an existing home?

Yes. We start by looking at the existing wiring and devices, then show you what can go in without opening walls and what makes more sense during a remodel. In most cases, we can also connect the devices you already own.

I am buying a new home in Great Park or Orchard Hills. When should I call you?

As early as you can, ideally while the framing is still open, because cabling and equipment locations are easiest to settle then. If the home is already finished, we can still design the system; we just plan around the finished surfaces. Bring your floor plans to your consultation.

Can you add outdoor lighting, cameras, and speakers without them being intrusive?

Yes. We choose and place outdoor equipment to blend with the landscaping and your home’s architectural style, and we show you the plan before anything is installed. Outdoor lighting and AV can all connect to the same system as your indoor solutions.

Do I have to replace the devices I already own?

Usually not. In most cases, we can integrate your existing devices and speakers into the new system. We check what you have during the first consultation, so you know exactly what can stay, what is worth upgrading, and why it matters.

What happens if something stops working after installation, and who do I call?

You call us. Our service plans include 24/7 support by phone, app, or email, preventative remote monitoring, and more, and we keep all system documentation on file for future service. Plan members also get priority scheduling with technicians already familiar with your home.

Do you work with my architect or builder on a custom home?

Yes. We work from your architect's or builder's plans to settle wiring and equipment locations before framing, and we coordinate around the build schedule so other trades are not waiting on us. We also provide CAD and Revit documentation that their team can use.

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Tell us whether you are upgrading the house you have, finishing a new one, or planning a custom build in Irvine. A member of our team will follow up to schedule your free consultation and discuss next steps.

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