Crestron iPad App Controls Home Automation Systems

Crestron for all their engineering abilities should try a little harder than just sizing up their iPhone app.

Maybe redesign and engineer a new app to take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen real estate.

I for one would not pay their marked up price for this scaled-up version.
Perhaps a bit more effort.

Wow, the first…..  burrrburrr.  Looks exactly like the ipad app but bigger, very creative.  Seems like apple said that any app that works on the ipod touch will work on the iPad.  Looks like Crestron ran their iPod app through the ipad developer kit, and now we have a first.  Prepare yourselfs for a long list of manufactures to do exactly the same.  How about the ability to customize your own interface for the ipad.  (I don’t know maybe Crestron can?)  Do that, and you have something worthwhile.  I know of a manufacture that can right now, but I’m not at liberty to say.  Exciting stuff!!

Sooo, $500 for something that seems to be slimmer, lighter, brighter and cooler looking with equal resolution / performance than what has been $3K to $5K?

Kind of makes the Korean flat-panel makers long(?) march to zero profit look charitable doesn’t it? At least they gave us a little more of a gentle curve to slide down, this is quite a bump on the butt. I guess we can at least be thankfull that even if we can’t make any profit at all, at least Mr. Jobs isn’‘t going too hold any possible profit out as a fabulous 60 day trailing credit to give Best Buy an even bigger advantage like our Korean friends(?) do. Maybe this IS better?

Kudos to Crestron for putting a happy face on it though.

The fact that we somehow make more profit on screens than on projectors, HDMI cables than on Blu-ray players, wall mounts than TVs, etc. does seem a little backwards doesn’t it? Add in the fact that the proper installation and integration trumps it all? Does that make the technician worth more?

Does the fact that we have arrived at a point in time where know-how has become more valuable than an ability to just deliver boxes portend a turning of the tables on the whole BigBox / Ecomm / Independent Retailer dynamic? Just don’t ask Jon Meyer, he may have a slightly different angle on it.

Yes you can completely customize the iPhone/iTouch GUI with Crestron. Check out this template store to see it. This has been possible for a year or maybe two now. http://www.ntdesignsonline.com/store.php?SeriesName=Horizon

The image above is marketing. Dont assume that the iPad will simply be a scaled version. If you would have watched the MLX-2 marketing you would have seen 3 different hard button layouts. But these were all rush jobs and the actual product was different. Heck.. the prodigy marketing made it seem like end users could program their own systems!

The iPad is not a replacement for current touchpanels. Its not on when you wake it up. Crestron clients are not going to put up with this geek toy as a remote. If anything it will offer something cool for lower end systems but i would rather use a $20 universal remote vs my iPhone to watch a movie. Its annoying as hell…....

Press home button..

Slide to unlock..

Locate app..

Launch app..

Wait for app to load or crash..

App loaded (yay)..

Wait for it to connect..

Ah.. finally i can hit pause..

Screen times out..

F@#$ i forgot to adjust the volume!

But Crestron is not stupid, they know that their is a market for this bell/whistle so they provide a solution for it. Just like they provide a solution to everything.

And holy cow.. i can’t believe you are angry about this Loren. You could sell your client a 4th remote for his coffee table . Sonos, Lutron,RTI, iPad

Posted by BurrrBurrr on 02/20 at 10:36 AM “Wow…Looks exactly like the ipad app but bigger, very creative.”

None of you guys except for the last one can figure out that this is a marketing image?

Still waiting for AMX’s iPad response.

It’s just a zoomed up iPhone App. I think Crestron was just trying to be first to make an announcement. I don’t believe that they have a native iPad app at all.

There just trying to be first in a press release.

It’s obvious that they were just trying to hit the market as the first to announce. I would bet that they don’t even have an Ipad. It’s not being released to any company just yet from what I understand.

To me, I think the real presence of a quality app and GUI interface is going to come from Savant, seeing that they have a special relationship with Apple.

I can only imagine how this industry and other industry segments are going to conform to the Ipad era. This is the dawn of a new day folks.

centstamp:
I’m not angry, because with the sonos, there’s an app for that! AND, I just love the iPad/iPhone/iTouch button shuffle, no just kidding, that really is annoying isn’t it? Maybe those $3K panels aren’t dead yet, thanks stamp.