Crestron Electronics announced Crestron Home OS 4 will debut at CEDIA Expo 2023. Crestron Home OS 4 is the “next evolution for its smart home strategy, featuring a completely new, intuitive interface for the client while further speeding and simplifying installation for dealers.” Crestron Home OS 4 also aims to unify multiple lighting protocols and devices within a single home automation platform. And, the user experience delivered via Crestron DMX-C fixtures is now extended to an entire world of additional lighting devices.

Dealers can add any lighting device to a Crestron Home system running the new OS 4 by writing a new driver or downloading the recently added drivers from the Crestron library. Crestron has launched Philips Hue smart lighting as its first example driver and has released new easy-to-use APIs to the driver development community, allowing for an expansive range of third-party integration possibilities alongside Crestron’s lighting update.

This new feature replicates the experience of native Crestron tunable light fixtures. Through the Crestron Home platform, homeowners have full control of the color of their lights, including hue, saturation, color temperature and light intensity. Alternatively, they can synchronize lights with their natural circadian rhythm or match the natural light outside. The same simple dealer experience of curating tunable lighting directly from the Crestron Home app is easily created for the entire home. Architectural or circadian lighting is as simple and beautiful as ever, with the same lighting experience as Crestron DMX-C fixtures.

In a Crestron Home system, the lighting fixtures work with all Crestron shading options, including the newly announced lithium-ion battery-powered shades, to allow homeowners to manage all lighting and shading throughout their residence.

Crestron Home OS 4 has a new user interface for a fluid and intuitive experience. Updated graphics, icons, filters, and room lists make the Crestron Home platform easy to navigate. Adding more filters on a single screen allows the homeowner to find functionality in any room or zone with fewer taps. “Compact” views within room lists enable the user to see multiple rooms at once, and a quick toggle function can switch the view from a “grid” to a “list” layout.

Crestron Home OS 4 takes homeowner preferences to a new level, offering the most granular system customization that has ever been made available to the end-user. The updated end-user schedule feature allows them to schedule events and automate tasks without a call to the dealer.

Additional Crestron Home OS 4 upgrades include new voice control functionality for Xfinity systems. Crestron touch screens running OS 4 can now also provide whole-home paging to inform the entire household or a select group of rooms.