Crestron Electronics

And that's the problem we're solving here today.

This episode is not about you learning to program a Crestron system.

You will not become an AV integrator at the end.

What this episode is about is understanding enough of the AV world that you can sit in a coordination meeting, ask the right five questions, write the right three lines into a spec, and walk out with an integration that actually works and that somebody actually owns.

Number one is the room control.

This is the control processor and the touch panel.

Crestron, Extron, Q-Sys, AMX, depending upon how old the building is.

This is the box that says the room is in presentation mode or the room is off.

It is.

Um, obviously nowadays you've got, uh, the likes of Crestron with HTML5, where it's like more web-based graphics, but then older systems were all, you know, using older graphics, but then trying to mimic the same feel, um, can be quite different and- Again, some, some may not want to use iPads or, you know, tablets to actually control systems.

They might want a remote, um, where, you know, you, you can't mimic, you know, a graphics on a, on a button remote, but you still...

The function behind it, the s- you know, the, like, lighting scenes, you know, that you, you know that the first one's going to be on and the second one's going to be a relax scene.