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Crestron mentions (4)

• Crestron home- firmware updates fail

  If your dealer shut down, please reach out to Crestron True Blue Support, check their website crestron.com And let them know that you had a dealer install a system and you're having problems but that the dealer is shut down and they're put you in contact with a new dealer or might help diagnose the update issue (it could be a file issue on their end). Source: over 1 year ago

• Pyng setup help

  You also need to know where things are on your network. If that is not in your skillset, crestron.com can help you find a integrator locally to assist you in getting things running. Source: over 1 year ago

• Resources for absolute beginners to Crestron Programming?

  Log into crestron.com and go to the training section. Get all of the pre-reqs completed and attend 101. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Transfer education history after changing employers

  Log on to your account at crestron.com, and go the profile section. Change the company from your old one to your new one. Source: about 3 years ago

Home-Assistant.io mentions (66)

• Working on a custom smart home app..

  HA is Home Assistant. You should check it out. Mushroom is an add on to HA’s interface that adds sone different style “cards” than what it comes with. Source: 10 months ago

• standalone systems?

  Yes, there's Home Assistant that can work completely off-line. You can find multitude tutorials on youtube on how to set it up, even using cheap solutions like Raspberry PI. Source: 11 months ago

• Turned my old 10-year-old android tablet into a wall clock/weather station

  I'm going to suggest- you ever heard of Home Assistant? It's a really useful home automation tool you could integrate with weather and clock on a dashboard. As well, you could use it to control smart devices. Source: 11 months ago

• has anyone done the big move from Spotify or other to Plex?

  As for the "what is playing" detection on my google minis. This is done with "https://home-assistant.io/". Source: about 1 year ago

• looking for a decently cheap zigbee hube

  The method that seems to work most reliability with all devices and all ecosystems is a Zigbee2MQTT software hub running on a computer alongside Home Assistant. The Z2M project has a list of compatible USB dongles which are typically around $20-30 (The Sonoff being a good one) but you still need a server (i.e. a small computer like a thin client or raspberry pi) and install and configure the software, so this... Source: about 1 year ago