What feels like a wireless home usually depends on a carefully planned wired backbone — coax, Cat6A, fibre and speaker cable, routed before the finishes go on. That hidden infrastructure is what lets one button wake the cinema, dim the lights, close the blinds and start the music. Get the cables right and the rest is simple. Get them wrong and no software in the world will rescue it.

If you’re looking for the best smart home installation company in Bath, judge us by the details: careful design, clean cabling, reliable control and systems that are still easy to live with years later. We design and install smart home automation, multi-room AV, lighting control, home cinema, Wi-Fi networks and whole-home audio across Bath, Bristol and the Cotswolds — for renovations, new builds and finished homes alike.

Home Entertainment — one rack, many rooms

The classic mistake is putting a Sky box in every room. The elegant solution is a single, well-engineered AV rack — Sky, Apple TV, music streamers, source after source — distributing audio and video over structured cabling to every screen and speaker in the house. Including the garden.

The result is the room you wanted before any of this technology arrived. Nothing on display, nothing humming, nothing flashing. A television that lowers out of a cabinet, or a screen that drops from the ceiling when needed. Loudspeakers behind plaster. Sources tucked in a cupboard on the landing. The whole system invisible until a single press summons it.

For multi-room audio, we don’t specify the same kit in every room just for neatness on a quote. We put the performance where you’ll notice it — the listening room, the cinema, the kitchen island — and keep secondary spaces discreet and practical. A high-end hi-fi in the snug; quiet, in-ceiling music in the guest bathroom. The same control surface for both.

Wi-Fi and the wired backbone

Wi-Fi has become the front door to everything: phones, tablets, voice assistants, the control app for the entire house. So we design it around the building. Access point placement, hard-wired backhaul wherever possible, mesh only where wired isn’t viable, roaming behaviour tuned for the property’s walls, floors and garden coverage. Access points are positioned and tuned for the property, not bolted to a ceiling and left to hope.

Reliability is designed in at the boring stage — cable routes, rack layout, ventilation, network settings, documentation. That’s what stops small faults becoming Friday-night callouts.

Control & Automation — one button, every room

The brief is almost always the same: I want it to be simple. So we build it that way. Whether the control system is URC, Lutron, RTI, Crestron or Control4, the principle holds — the homeowner sees one elegant interface, not the wires and protocols behind it.

A single button by the front door turns the house down and, where the alarm system supports it, sets the security mode. A “Welcome Home” scene wakes the lights, lifts the blinds and starts your music. After dark, the driveway lights warm up, the blinds drop, the kitchen dims. When you’re away, occupancy simulation can vary the lights and blinds so the house doesn’t read as empty from the road.

All of it accessed from one phone, one tablet, one remote, one wall plate. Less a “smart home” than a quiet one.

Our promise

We’ve been designing and installing smart home automation and multi-room AV systems in Bath and the South West for over two decades — from first-fix cabling and rack design to programming, handover and long-term support. The lessons that matter are the ones the install eventually announces on its own: buzz on a line, lag on a remote, a panel that won’t talk to a thermostat at 11 o’clock on a Friday. A good install disappears; a bad one tells on itself.

That’s the bar we work to: honest advice, no unnecessary lock-in, kit chosen on merit, and the integrity of the install. A home that just works, every day, for a long time.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need structured cabling if we want a wireless-looking smart home?

Usually, yes. The most reliable wireless-looking homes are built on a planned wired backbone: Cat6A, coax, fibre and speaker cable routed before finishes go on. This keeps equipment hidden while giving AV, Wi-Fi, lighting and control systems the stability they need.

Can you design multi-room AV without equipment visible in every room?

Yes. A central AV rack can house sources such as TV boxes, streamers and music systems, then distribute audio and video to screens and speakers around the house. Televisions, speakers and screens can also be concealed where the room design calls for it.

Do you install smart home systems in finished homes as well as new builds?

Yes. We work on renovations, new builds and finished homes. The approach changes depending on access, building fabric and the level of concealment required, but the aim remains the same: reliable control with as little visual impact as possible.

How do you make whole-home Wi-Fi more reliable?

We design Wi-Fi around the property, not just the floor plan. That includes access point placement, wired backhaul where possible, careful network settings and coverage for difficult areas such as thick walls, multiple floors and gardens.

Can lighting, blinds, music and cinema be controlled from one place?

Yes. A well-designed control system can bring lighting, blinds, AV, music and cinema together through a phone, tablet, remote or wall plate. The homeowner sees simple scenes such as Welcome Home or All Off, while the wiring and programming remain in the background.

Where do you install multi-room AV and smart home systems?

Hidden Home Technology is based in Bath and designs and installs smart home automation, multi-room AV, lighting control, home cinema, Wi-Fi and whole-home audio across Bath, Bristol, the Cotswolds, South West England and Wales.