Crestron Mercury Update Announced

Crestron today announced a Crestron Mercury update for the tabletop meeting and UCC solution. Crestron says the new UI features a more modern-looking, cleaner design that provides users with a simpler experience, including more intuitive navigation. The redesigned UI will ship with all new Crestron Mercury units and is available for existing units via a […]

Crestron Mercury Update Announced

Crestron Releases Flex for Zoom Rooms at Zoomtopia 2019

Crestron debuted the Crestron Flex for Zoom Rooms at Zoomtopia 2019, Zoom’s annual user conference (Oct. 15-16 in San Jose, California). The Crestron Flex is a line of unified communications solutions that come with native Zoom Rooms software functionality. “Crestron Flex for Zoom Rooms raises the bar,” said Eric Yu, hardware partnership manager of Zoom. […]

Crestron Releases Flex for Zoom Rooms at Zoomtopia 2019

Zoom Announces Expanded Platform, New Technologies at Zoomtopia 2019

Zoom Video Communications just announced at Zoomtopia 2019 (its annual user conference) that major additions are coming to its software platforms. All of these, which are outlined below, will be become available on the platform by the end of January 2020. New Zoom Rooms Appliances: These are purpose-built Zoom Rooms hardware devices that Zoom is […]

Zoom Announces Expanded Platform, New Technologies at Zoomtopia 2019

Crestron and CoolAutomation Partner Inside Home OS 3

Crestron today announced a new partnership with CoolAutomation, a leading developer of HVAC automation solutions to provide native BACnet integration with Crestron Home OS 3. Now integrators have the ability to customize the BACnet modules within the Crestron Home app. This solution is designed for MDU applications where there is a centralized BACnet controlled HVAC […]

Crestron and CoolAutomation Partner Inside Home OS 3

Crestron Home OS 3 Available Now

Crestron today announced the release of Crestron Home OS 3, an update to its smart home app. New features include: Support for multiple homes New icons to save favorites – provides intuitive custom access and experience Refined layout for easy access to the most commonly used functions Dynamic, intuitive display features Personalization of UI using […]

Crestron Home OS 3 Available Now

Crestron DM NVX AV-over-IP System is First to Receive JITC and FIPS 140-2 Certifications

Crestron announced today that its DM NVX AV-over-IP product line has received Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) approval by the U.S. Department of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and FIPS 140-2 validation by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. DM NVX is the first and […]

Crestron DM NVX AV-over-IP System is First to Receive JITC and FIPS 140-2 Certifications

AVI-SPL Opens NY Metro Office, Focuses on Telling Story of Company, Employees, Partners

AVI-SPL officially opened their NY Metro Office in Lyndhurst, New Jersey today and rAVe was there to cover the launch event! The 20,000 square foot facility supports around 100 employees across sales, support, finance, project and fabrication teams. Not only is the office home to conference rooms, open-office seating, executive offices and a lobby gathering […]

AVI-SPL Opens NY Metro Office, Focuses on Telling Story of Company, Employees, Partners

The Themes of InfoComm 2019

Over the years I’ve been in this industry (this was my 33rd InfoComm — 34th annual show with InfoComm/AVIXA though as my first, back in 1987, the show was called COMTEC — before the name was changed to InfoComm in 1988), the show has evolved from a technology-based show to a product-based show and, more […]

The Themes of InfoComm 2019

Crestron Rolls Out New Features to the XiO Cloud

Crestron has debuted new features in the latest version of Crestron XiO Cloud. Crestron XiO Cloud supports a direct device-to-cloud connection via an Azure IoT Hub, with no additional hardware. You register your devices at the time of purchase and everything needed to manage your devices is available in the cloud portal. Azure services provide […]

Crestron Rolls Out New Features to the XiO Cloud

Crestron Adds Microsoft Teams to Flex Line

Crestron’s Flex platform grew this month, adding the M-Series and B-Series single display kits designed to integrate Microsoft Teams in UCC applications. The new Crestron Flex M-Series MX models combine BYOD connectivity and a native Microsoft Teams experience, providing users with multiple ways to collaborate within their space. They can either access Microsoft Teams with […]

Crestron Adds Microsoft Teams to Flex Line

Crestron Updates Room Scheduling Platform

At InfoComm 2019, Crestron updated its room scheduling platform. Ad Astra, CollegeNET, New Wave Apps and SpaceIQ now run on Crestron room scheduling touch screens. Crestron is also debuting the latest additions to its family of room scheduling touch screens with the TSW-560 and TSW-560P, both of which support direct connect scheduling. Crestron touch screens […]

Crestron Updates Room Scheduling Platform

Elo Now Has 65-Inch 4K Interactive Signage and Collaboration Products

Elo today announced the launch of its 6553L touchscreen and fourth-generation Elo computer module (ECMG4). The 6553L touchscreen provides a platform for what the company says is captivating digital signage experiences in public spaces, as well as engaging and collaborative communication within enterprises. The 6553L touchscreen is part of Elo’s new IDS 3 Series, which […]

Elo Now Has 65-Inch 4K Interactive Signage and Collaboration Products

Crestron Debuts an NVX Receiver in an OPS slot for Monitors and Projectors

Crestron is debuting DM-NVX-D80-IoAV at InfoComm. Basically it’s an OPS slot box with an integrated NVX AV-over-IP receiver (1G) for monitors and projectors with OPS inputs like LG, NEC, Philips, Avocor and Smart. The DM NVX decoder plugs into the OPS port and is powered by the display. This eliminates the need for cables and […]

Crestron Debuts an NVX Receiver in an OPS slot for Monitors and Projectors

Crestron UCC-Based Mic and SpeakerBar with Built-in 4K Camera at InfoComm

Crestron just launched three new SpeakerBars for the UCC market; the UC-SB1, the UC-SB1-AV and the UC-SB1-CAM. All three are SpeakerBars with built-in beamforming mic arrays that are designed for huddle rooms, UCC spaces and small meeting rooms — and use the same form-factor, 43″ wide, 3″ deep and 5″ high. The difference is: UC-SB1: […]

Crestron UCC-Based Mic and SpeakerBar with Built-in 4K Camera at InfoComm

AV Industry EOL: Planned Obsolescence (Part One)

For all of the massive technology improvements and innovations within the AV industry, there is irony in the faster obsolescence of digital equipment compared to the analog age of AV, leaving customers vulnerable to unexpected end-of-life notifications of planned obsolescence at the discretion of the manufacturer and reducing the life-span of digital AV gear. In […]

AV Industry EOL: Planned Obsolescence (Part One)

Even Crestron Has Partnered With Domotz for Remote Monitoring and Management

Following Lutron, Lulu, Nuvo, Global Cache, Wyrestorm, StormAudio and a handful of others, Crestron today announced a partnership with Domotz. The seamless integration of the Domotz suite of products with Crestron smart home systems will empower Crestron residential systems integrators to remotely monitor their customers’ systems and better assist them, while reducing support costs and […]

Even Crestron Has Partnered With Domotz for Remote Monitoring and Management

Crestron Partners with Black Nova for Keypads & Touch Panels

Crestron announced a partnership with Black Nova to make the ARIA, ALBA and ANY keypads and touch panel Crestron Connected products. Crestron residential dealers can now integrate them in their system designs using the Cresnet bus for custom control features and functionality. Crestron Connected technology enables interoperability among independently manufactured products. Black Nova keypads and […]

Crestron Partners with Black Nova for Keypads & Touch Panels

Crestron CP4-R — A Glimpse of the Series-4 Control System

Crestron is shipping its new Series-4 processor in the form of the CP4-R, aimed at the residential control system market. Rebranding it as the Crestron Home OS, it’s four times the speed of the CP3-R, double the RAM and runs Crestron Pyng OS 2 today but, is built to support Crestron Home OS 3, arriving […]

Crestron CP4-R — A Glimpse of the Series-4 Control System

New Crestron DIN-RAIL Climate Controls Debut

Crestron is now shipping its new DIN-THSTAT DIN Rail Mountable thermostat. Used with Crestron CHV-RTS, CHV-RTHS or CHV-RSS temperature sensors, the DIN-THSTAT provides three-stage heating and cooling, support for three independent remote sensor inputs, a full color LCD display for easy setup and diagnostics and flexible Cresnet communications. The DIN-THSTAT can be installed in an […]

New Crestron DIN-RAIL Climate Controls Debut

InfoComm 2019 to Explore Pro AV in Hospitality and Retail; Registration Opens

InfoComm 2019, the largest ProAV show in North America, will explore the fast-growing markets for audiovisual solutions in hospitality and retail, June 8-14 in Orlando, Fla. The show will host more than 30 education sessions focused on the ways that companies in hospitality and retail and the AV solution providers that serve them are using […]

InfoComm 2019 to Explore Pro AV in Hospitality and Retail; Registration Opens

New Crestron TSR-310 Remote Is Better than Anything Control4, URC or Savant Have Ever Released

Crestron used a Crestron Performance UI (user experience) design release to debut its new TSR-310 handheld touch screen remote — aimed at the HomeAV market. It integrates natively within the Crestron Home operating system (Crestron Pyng OS 2) and, literally, blows away anything Savant, Control4 or URC have ever released. Integrators will appreciate how the […]

New Crestron TSR-310 Remote Is Better than Anything Control4, URC or Savant Have Ever Released

Crestron Expands Entry Door Security Line and Adds Two New Partnerships

At ISE 2019, Crestron announced a partnership with 2N, a global provider of IP intercoms and ekey biometric systems GmbH, a provider of fingerprint access solutions. The latest firmware update to 2N IP-based video intercom door stations makes them Crestron Rava SIP intercom and phone technology compliant. As a result, they integrate with Crestron TSW-x60 […]

Crestron Expands Entry Door Security Line and Adds Two New Partnerships

Crestron Expands Room Scheduling Platform at ISE

At ISE 2019, Crestron debuted its latest hardware and software additions to its room scheduling platform. Two new scheduling panels — 5″ portrait and 5″ landscape — are now available, along with an optional room availability light bar. Like all Crestron scheduling panels, they connect directly to a Microsoft Exchange Server, Office 365 and G […]

Crestron Expands Room Scheduling Platform at ISE

Crestron FT2 Series FlipTops Debut at ISE 2019

Crestron just debuted the FT2 Series of FlipTops at ISE 2019. The new FT2 FlipTops fit into almost any standard desk/table cut-out and sit flush on the surface. When presenting in a meeting, a touch of the button on the FT2 FlipTop activates its door (which retracts). All connectors and cables are revealed at table-level […]

Crestron FT2 Series FlipTops Debut at ISE 2019

Crestron Expands AV-over-IP Product Line at ISE 2019

Crestron has debuted new additions to the DigitalMedia product family at ISE 2019 this month. The new products include a DM NVX encoder and decoder with PoE+ support and DM NVX encoders/decoders with Dante audio networking. The DM-NVX-E30(C) and DM-NVX-D30(C) are encode- or decode-only units that support HDMI connectivity and analog audio. Compatible with all […]

Crestron Expands AV-over-IP Product Line at ISE 2019

Crestron Flex Unified Communications & Collaboration Solutions Debuted at ISE 2019

The Crestron Flex Unified Communications & Collaboration solutions, which debuted at ISE 2019 this month in Hall-2, Stand C20, delivers a native Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, and Zoom Rooms software experience, including one-touch join. The Crestron Flex includes: Crestron Flex P100 Series: Crestron’s first ever voice-over-IP desk phone, the P100 Series delivers the Microsoft Teams or Skype for […]

Crestron Flex Unified Communications & Collaboration Solutions Debuted at ISE 2019

Crestron Adds “Pixel Perfect Processing Technology” to AV-over-IP DM NVX Line

Crestron will announce the next generation of its DM NVX network AV line at ISE. Adding something they are calling “Pixel Perfect Processing” technology, to the DM NVX. Working with Intel and intoPIX (the companioning y who makes their AV-over-IP 1G processing chip, Crestron says they’ve made the image quality better — and they are […]

Crestron Adds “Pixel Perfect Processing Technology” to AV-over-IP DM NVX Line

Epiphan Video to Show Kaltura CMS Integration and Crestron Control Module for Pearl at ISE 2019

Epiphan Video is showcasing full API integration with Kaltura Content Management System (CMS) and the first-ever Crestron Control Module for the Pearl family of all-in-one video production systems. The Pearl family of hardware encoders now support scheduling of multi-view VOD and webcasting events directly within the Kaltura Management Console. Pearl’s built-in touch screen and Admin […]

Epiphan Video to Show Kaltura CMS Integration and Crestron Control Module for Pearl at ISE 2019

2019: The Year of AV-Over-IP — But Don’t Believe the Hype!

There’s no doubt in my mind that 2019 will be the year we look back on that the industry transitioned from signal routing and distribution via HDMI and so-called “digital-media” to AV-over-IP. Certainly not the entire industry — just most of it. But buyer, specifier, installer and designer beware. Not all AV-over-IP is the same, […]

2019: The Year of AV-Over-IP — But Don’t Believe the Hype!

Crestron Ships All Crestron Flex UCC Solutions

Crestron is now shipping its complete portfolio of Crestron Flex Unified Communications & Collaboration solutions. Crestron Flex provides a native Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business and Zoom Rooms software experience, including one-touch join. Crestron Flex solutions come in several forms, but all deliver the same experience, regardless of the space in which they’re deployed: Crestron […]

Crestron Ships All Crestron Flex UCC Solutions

Crestron and 2N Design New Security at Entry Doors

2N is now a Crestron integration partner and the latest firmware update to 2N video intercom door stations makes them compliant with Crestron Rava SIP intercom and phone technology. As a result, they integrate with Crestron TSW-x60 Series touch screens for a video intercom solution that also integrates with third-party electronic door locks. For Crestron […]

Crestron and 2N Design New Security at Entry Doors

New Crestron Performance UI Designed for TSR-310 Remote

Crestron today announced the release of the Crestron Performance UI, a new user experience designed exclusively for the TSR-310 handheld touch screen remote. The Crestron Performance UI integrates natively with the Crestron PyngOS 2 operating system. Integrators will also appreciate how the Crestron Performance UI reduces deployment time, thanks to minimal programming requirements. Crestron integrators […]

New Crestron Performance UI Designed for TSR-310 Remote