Nice, a global leader in Home and Building Management solutions, announced a new integration with Sonos for its home management platform. The integration, which is verified by the Works with Sonos program, ensures seamless compatibility for installers and end customers alike across Nice products.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Sonos ahead of this year’s CEDIA Expo,” said Larry Cramp, Product Manager at Nice North America. “The opportunity to integrate Sonos search capabilities into our home management platform helps us offer streamlined services that deliver on our mission to simplify everyday movements for our customers.”

Complementing the existing Sonos control API, now content can be searched within multiple Nice home management products with:

Extended functionality and control: This upgrade simplifies navigation and accelerates access to preferred content from compatible music service partners across partner touch screens, with support for search, favorites, playlists, and recently played.

Soundtrack every scene: Via the existing control API, Sonos music can be synchronized with lights, shading and more to deliver a more cohesive, immersive experience that complements end-users’ lifestyles. These scenes can be applied across all interfaces of a supporting control system, extending the ability to stream Sonos music throughout the entire home.

“We’re pleased to have Nice join our partner network so together, we can deliver more integrated solutions to our collective customer,” said Casey Clemens, Senior Director, Americas Professional at Sonos. “By implementing our new search API into the suite of trusted home management products by Nice, we are working together to enhance the interoperability of devices within the home to create a more seamless and intuitive experience for the end-user.”

For More Information: www.niceforyou.com or www.sonos.com

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Nice, a global leader in Home and Building Management solutions, announced the launch of Sun Shades by Nice, the company’s first-ever line of custom smart sun shades. The new product line offers a variety of roller shading solutions for the home technology professional, to further expand on the company’s portfolio of whole home automation solutions.

Sun Shades by Nice provides expansive design options with the same simple, flexible integration that installers have come to love. Advanced electronics offer enhanced versatility, enabling the sun shades to be integrated into a project at any stage of the building process. Highly customizable with options for indoor and outdoor use, the custom roller shade line offers stunning finishes to complete any space.

The range of sun shades for interior needs include open roll, cassette, fascia, and pocket mounting options, as well as options for dual roller and total blackout shade. Offerings are available for more complex needs, such as skylights, bottom-up applications commonly used in bedrooms, and peaked or angled windows. Powerful shade motors by Nice also enable more options for windows up to 18’.

Additionally, the line includes exterior options that extend the possibilities to outdoor spaces. With track-guided and cable-guided solutions for both vertical and horizontal shading needs, Sun Shades by Nice covers most needs for standard exterior window coverings while preventing heat transfer from solar radiation, and drastically improving temperature control and energy use.

Sun Shades by Nice are powered by the ultra-quiet and durable Nice tubular motors, which offer high reliability, include hembar alignment, and can uniquely detect objects in both up and down directions. Nice tubular motors come in a wide variety including AC, DC and battery as well as both wired and RF, and are currently available to OEM fabrication partners. When paired with a Nice Home Management System, the discovery and setup functionality in the Nice Configurator application delivers simple, flexible installation for the home technology professional.

“We’re excited to add our first line of sun shades to the Nice portfolio,” said Jeff Shaw, Vice President of Product Management at Nice North America. “By expanding our offering with Sun Shades by Nice, we’re building a larger, more complete portfolio for our CI partners and providing our customers with a true whole home ecosystem.”

The launch of Sun Shades by Nice follows a series of company product announcements, including the Home Management OS 8.8 Software Upgrade for all Nice/ELAN® Control Systems, the HR40 Multifunction Smart Home Remote and DC-12 IP Smart DC Power Manager, that underscore the company’s position as a leader in Home Management solutions.

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