Smart Home
One house, one set of controls.
Smart thermostats, zoning, and monitoring set up by the people who installed the systems they run — so the house just behaves, and you can see it doing it.
What can we help you with?
The problem
What a house without controls does
Good systems run badly when nothing coordinates them. Most of the complaints we hear after another company's install are control problems.
A thermostat that fights the heat pump
An old thermostat on a new heat pump calls for backup heat on every cold morning and the bill shows it.
Rooms on different schedules, one setting
The office needs to be warm at nine and the bedrooms at ten; one thermostat can't do both.
Solar you can't see
The roof is producing and nobody knows whether the house is using it, storing it, or giving it away.
Five apps for one house
The thermostat, the battery, the charger, the solar, and the generator each have their own app and none of them talk.
What we install
What we install
Controls chosen to fit the systems you have, configured properly, and explained before we leave.
Smart thermostats
Units matched to the equipment, especially heat pumps, with staging and backup-heat logic set correctly.
Zoning
Dampers, multiple heads, or multiple thermostats so each part of the house runs on its own schedule.
Energy monitoring
Whole-home and circuit-level monitoring that shows what the house is using, producing, and storing.
System integration
The heat pump, the battery, the solar, the charger, and the generator on one platform that you can actually read.
Indoor air quality sensors
Humidity, CO2, and particulate sensing that drives the ventilation instead of just reporting.
Leak, freeze, and outage alerts
The sensors that tell you the basement is wet or the house is cooling before it becomes a repair.
How it fits the house
How controls tie the house together
A house is one system, and the controls are where that becomes true. A cold-climate heat pump needs a thermostat that understands it: long, gentle run times, backup heat only when it's genuinely needed, setbacks that don't trigger the backup at six in the morning. The wrong thermostat on the right equipment is the most common reason a heat pump costs more than it should.
Once the systems can see each other, the house can make decisions. Charge the car when the roof is producing. Run the battery down at peak and recharge it off-peak. Pre-heat before a cold snap while power is cheap. Switch to the generator only when the battery is low. None of that requires you to do anything; it requires the systems to be on speaking terms.
Monitoring is what keeps it honest. When you can see the heat pump's run time, the array's output, the battery's state, and the house's draw on one screen, you know whether the plan is doing what we said it would. We set it up, and we look at it with you.
Cost
Cost, and how we bring it down
Controls are priced on the devices and the wiring: a thermostat swap is a small job, zoning or whole-home monitoring is a larger one. Most control work is folded into the HVAC, solar, or battery project it belongs to, so the number in your plan is for the whole thing.
Smart thermostats and demand-response enrollment qualify for utility rebates in most of our states, and the programs that pay for battery and thermostat participation often require the controls we install. We identify what applies and enroll you.
Properly configured controls lower the running cost of everything else. That's the main way this pays.
Federal incentives for home energy equipment changed in 2025. We confirm exactly what applies to your project at the assessment, and a tax professional reviews anything tax-related before it goes in your plan.
Programs we help you apply for
Utility smart thermostat rebates
Mass Save, Energize CT, NHSaves, and others by state
Demand-response / peak programs
utility payments for letting the thermostat or battery respond on peak days
ConnectedSolutions (MA, CT, RI, NH)
battery and thermostat enrollment
Eligibility and amounts change by state and by year; we confirm what applies to your project at the assessment.
Real trucks. Real crews. Real homes.
Proof you can see.
Very professional, team work, and they clean after when the project is done. I’m so impressed that it only took 2 days to finished. Thank you Ben for replacing my new roof!
Ahmad and Team Sunshine installed 25 solar panels on our home last fall. I met Ahmad through a referral from a neighbor who had Team Sunshine install solar on his house 2 years prior. He told me how happy he was with their company and how responsive the team had been throughout the whole process. He told me two years later he was still in touch with them. I had been researching solar for a while and had just had a no show for a scheduled appointment from one company and another who wasn’t calling back…
Great company, very happy with the installation . I highly recommend this great people!!
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Plain answers, no sales voice. If yours isn’t here, the callout below reaches a person.
Will any smart thermostat work with a heat pump?
No. Heat pumps, and especially cold-climate heat pumps with backup heat, need a thermostat that supports their staging and won't call for backup heat unnecessarily. We match the thermostat to the equipment and configure the backup logic, which is the part most installs get wrong.
Can I control everything from one app?
Mostly, yes. We choose platforms that integrate the thermostat, the solar, the battery, the charger, and the generator, and we set it up so you have one place to look. Some equipment keeps its own app for service; we'll tell you which.
What is zoning and do I need it?
Zoning lets different parts of the house run on different schedules and temperatures: bedrooms cool at night, the office warm by day. It's worth it in multi-story homes, homes with an addition, and any house where one thermostat has never satisfied everyone. Ductless systems zone naturally; ducted systems get dampers.
Does monitoring actually save anything?
It saves what it finds. Circuit-level monitoring shows the dehumidifier that runs all summer, the old freezer in the garage, and the heat pump's backup heat coming on when it shouldn't. Fixing what it finds is where the savings are.
Will it work if the internet goes down?
The thermostat keeps heating and cooling on its schedule; the battery and generator switch over on their own. You lose the remote view and the automations that depend on the cloud until the connection returns.
Can you set up controls for systems another company installed?
Yes. We'll look at what's there, replace what's fighting the equipment, and integrate what's worth keeping. It's a common first job for homes that have good equipment and bad controls.
Still have a question?
A Home Advisor picks up — no phone tree.
Two climates, one team
Where you live changes the settings, and our plan does too.
In New England and the Mid-Atlantic the controls are managing heat pump staging, backup heat, and pre-heating before cold snaps. In Florida they're managing cooling, humidity, and ventilation, and keeping the air conditioning on the battery or generator through a hurricane outage.
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