Riley Calloway is the home automation expert at DMNET Experts.
She grew up in Calloway & Sons, her father’s electrical and AV shop east of Nashville — labeling breaker panels at ten, pulling Cat5 through July attics at fifteen — and spent more than fifteen years helping turn an outlets-and-ceiling-fans business into a full smart home operation. Three hundred-odd houses later, she’s seen every way this technology goes right and cataloged most of the ways it goes wrong.
Riley’s writing runs on three convictions. Pick your ecosystem before you buy a single gadget, because the platform decides everything that follows. Boring beats clever, because the best automation is one your family never notices working. And you can do this yourself — her guides are DIY-first, with real tools and real how-to detail even for the advanced stuff. She’ll tell you plainly which few jobs belong to a licensed pro, and for everything else she assumes what her dad always assumed about her: that you’re capable of more than the marketing thinks you are.
Riley’s rules, the short version — the long version is in her writing:
- Ecosystem before gadgets.
- Boring beats clever.
- You can do this yourself.
- The infrastructure is the smart home.
- If it wouldn’t survive her mom’s house, it doesn’t belong in yours.
- The whole household gets a vote — and the internet should be optional.
Every article she writes ends the same way — “What I’d do”: an actual recommendation, unhedged.