“There’s now a responsive search bar that auto-fills with a variety of options when a dealer is adding a device,” adds Wooster. “We've made it faster for our dealers to do all their data entry,” says Oster. “A small change, maybe, but vastly easier to remember - and it saves time during login.”ĭealers will immediately notice significant upgrades to both components of the portal in this latest version of the Crestron Home OS. “The new address is crestronhome.io,” says Scott Wooster, Crestron’s senior product owner of residential solutions. The Need for Speedįirst things first: The portal has an improved URL.

“Now that Crestron Home has been out so long and there are thousands of these systems out there, the dealers need a way of managing those existing Crestron homes easily,” says Oster. Once the system’s been installed, it can be monitored, and a variety of remote functions can be performed without the need to roll a truck. The second major component is management. Before the processor shows up, before the hardware, before you even go on site, the dealer can sit down with their laptop and this cloud tool and add all their rooms and devices and get all their work done ahead of time so they're not under pressure on the job site.” Jason Oster, Crestron’s director of product management for residential solutions, explains: “One aspect of this system allows a dealer to execute pre-configuration. For the uninitiated, that’s a cloud-based system that has two major components. The biggest item in this update includes improvements to the m圜restron portal. That’s the case with most of what’s happening in the 3.21 update, due for release on July 19 - but its impacts will profoundly affect your ability to meet your clients’ wants and needs faster than ever before.Īnd that’s a positive that’s downright profound. While every update to the Crestron Home® OS improves the user experience in some way, there are occasions when these advancements are immediately obvious to the end user.

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