Home AV Pros has been delivering home and commercial AV in Wisconsin since 2011. We picked the technology we believed in, kept overhead low, and stayed close to our customers. The rest is the work.
The future of AV is networking. Lights, speakers, shades, cameras, and control are all moving to IP and low voltage. The integrators who understand that will be the ones still standing in ten years. Home AV Pros is built on that bet.
Talk to usErnst started Home AV Pros while working in IT, mounting TVs and running cable on evenings and weekends. The work that came back the most consistently was the work the wholesalers and franchises were getting wrong, the low-voltage and networking pieces that nobody else wanted to own.
Ernst went to school for computer networking, not for AV. That order matters. We design the network first and the entertainment system second, because almost everything on a modern install rides on the network at some point. PoE switches, IP cameras, Josh.ai control, streaming, even some of the lighting. The wiring closet is the foundation.
We work direct with Sonos, Lutron, Josh.ai, Ubiquiti, and the other manufacturers we install. That means better training, better support, and a phone that gets answered when something goes sideways. It also means we picked them on purpose. They are not what our wholesaler stocked.
Ernst's dad is on roughly eighty percent of jobs. His brother helps a couple of days a week. We bring on extra hands when projects scale, but the family is on every install. That continuity is the difference between a job that gets finished and a job that gets handed off.
Fully insured. Fully licensed. We work with electricians and general contractors across Wisconsin and northern Illinois who refer us because the low-voltage and Cat cable work is the part of the job they would rather not own. We make that hand-off boring, which is exactly what they want.
Small, deliberately. Family on most days. Trained contractors when projects scale.
Networking-trained, IP-first. Runs design and project lead on every install. You will meet him on the first visit and again on the day the system goes in.
Cable, mounting, low-voltage, theater builds. The person who turns the drawings into a working room.
Networking, racks, and rack-and-stack control work. Quiet, fast, and good at the parts nobody else sees.
A short list of things we believe and the way they show up in the work.
Design the network before the entertainment. Almost everything else rides on it.
Josh.ai over Control4. Ubiquiti over off-the-shelf. We pick what works, not what is easy to source.
One designer, one job, end to end. You are not handed off to a separate install team.
No retail showroom to fund. More of the budget ends up in the gear that goes in the wall.
"I wanted to be with the customers more than with the sellers."
Madison-based, with a Milwaukee office and coverage into the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We do not pretend to serve coasts we cannot drive to.
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