Whilst it is an ideal scenario to always have budget for Crestron and Lutron hardware on every project; sometimes that is not the reality.
This is especially true when it comes to projects on my own house; whilst I do have both Lutron and Crestron lighting controls systems, there’s never enough money to do everything I want on the house!
We’re seeing increased interest in displaying more environmental and energy usage parameters on our Crestron interfaces.
Electrical consumption (and indeed generation for projects with PV systems etc.) is a very common request and there are a number of ways of getting the data, however many rely on ‘the cloud’ (and worrying whether the company stays in business etc.) or are quite expensive (Crestron themselves make a power meter, but it does come with a high price tag).
In a recent firmware and software update, you may have seen that Crestron have enabled Apple Homekit control of Apple TVs. There is some confusion about parts of this, in particular for custom software; so I have tried to cover some of the important points and ensuring that we are able to design systems together that work within the restrictions.
We’re on the move!
London’s been a blast, but time to get back to our roots.
More of our work is outside of London than in it, so there really is not a need to deal with the challenges and costs of living in London if we don’t need to.
The move should not only see a massive improvement in our quality of life, but also offers us some real opportunities to grow the business.
From time to time, things don’t work as we expect them to.
Who am I kidding right?!?
On many projects, things don’t work as we expect them to.
As our industry moves further and further into the IT domain (or, depending on your take, the IT industry moves further and further into our domain) we become ever more dependant on the network infrastructure.
A week has passed since we got back from the penultimate ISE in Amsterdam (ISE moves to Barcelona in 2021 - which will certainly be warmer!).
The show is, for us, a very different show than it is for those who are visiting as part of an integration company. Of course, we’re always excited about new technology and innovation; but on the whole, these days the latest projector from company XYZ is less important to us than the opportunity to meet with our existing clients and potential new clients.
