How much hardware do we have here for testing our Crestron software?

In our software development, we aim to have as much tested and debugged before we get onto a project site.  There are so many reasons for this, but clearly, the primary one is to ensure that deployment is as painless and quick as possible.

CEDIA Communicates is a quarterly publication that goes out to members to keep them abreast of industry news and developments.

Delighted to say that the latest issue (read it here) that Marcus is featured in an article about CEDIA Industry-Related Professional Members (page 42).

Today, I want to tell you about a remarkably useful tool that I always make sure I have in my commissioning equipment and that is an infrared remote control tester.

I can hear you saying it now "everything is IP these days, why do we need to test IR?".  Fair comment, however, there are still a lot of devices that are IR controlled either because that is the only option or because the IP control is not as reliable as needed.

These days, the use of motorised window treatments is fairly common place.  The benefits of automating shades for temperature regulation and privacy are a very easy message to communicate to homeowners.

Basalte are a Belgian company that have been around a while and have had a series of very interesting products for some time.  Most of their product range has worked on KNX or RS-485 buses and, as such, was not as straight-forward as it might be to interface with Crestron systems.

We're very pleased to announce that company owner and lead programmer, Marcus, has passed the next level in his Crestron certification and is now a Crestron Silver Master  Programmer.