QIIQ Home
Powerful smart-home technology, without becoming the system administrator.
A good setup should disappear into the house. QIIQ helps with the planning, software, and configuration so that it does. Based near Bromsgrove and serving the surrounding area.
The practical version
Setup and configuration, not a showroom.
QIIQ Home is technical work: Home Assistant, dashboards, automations, cameras, energy, heating, networking. The aim is a house that behaves, not a project that needs a Saturday every month.
It is the same studio as the business-systems work — a preference for simple systems that get used — applied to a house rather than an inbox.
What QIIQ Home covers
The software and systems layer of a smart home.
- Smart-home planning What is worth doing, what to leave, and how the pieces should relate — before buying another gadget.
- Home Assistant setup A working system, not a weekend lost to YAML and forum threads.
- Dashboards A house that can be understood at a glance, on a tablet on the wall or a phone in a pocket.
- Automations Lighting, presence, heating, and the boring routines — made reliable, then left alone.
- Lighting and device integration Getting mixed brands to behave as one system, instead of four apps.
- Energy monitoring Seeing what the house is using, and spotting the obvious waste.
- EV integrations Charging that fits the tariff and the household, not a separate hobby.
- Heating controls Sensible schedules and remote control, tied into the rest of the house.
- CCTV / Frigate Cameras that notify you about the things you care about, with recordings you can actually find.
- Network and server setup The unglamorous layer: Wi-Fi that covers the house, a small box that stays up.
- Backup and remote access So a holiday does not mean the house is unreachable, or a disk failure means starting again.
What it costs
Start with a conversation about the house, not a package.
These figures are a starting point. A consultation is often enough to decide what is worth doing; more involved work is quoted once the house and the aim are clear.
- Smart Home Consultation £99
About 60–90 minutes reviewing what you already have, what you want the house to do, suitable technology, and a realistic way to get there.
- Home Assistant setup from £299
An appropriate initial installation and configuration — a working system rather than a weekend lost to YAML.
- More involved work quoted individually
Advanced automation, dashboards, energy monitoring, heating, CCTV / Frigate, networking, servers, and integrations. Scoped after the consultation, not sold as a package.
If the house is fighting you, say what you have and what you want it to do.
A model name, a sketch of the rooms, and the two things that currently annoy you is a useful start.