Founding editor Julie Jacobson shares CEDIA Fellow’s honor with CE Pro team.

Max Angst, CEO of MAXSYSTEMS, says customers can now request service simply by touching a button on their smartphone app.

In time for CEDIA 2017, URC Total Control is one of the first pro-oriented home-automation systems to support IFTTT; Other new integrations include push notifications, Belkin Wemo, Oppo Blu-ray, and virtually anything that can issue an IP command.

Portal.io already lets smart-home technologists search for specialty products, build proposals and purchase gear wholesale from a single site. New ‘Select’ service, to be demonstrated at CEDIA 2017, elevates service to Amazonian levels.

Eric Bodley, former CE Pro 100 integrator, past president of CEDIA, and current president and CEO of Future Ready Solutions and Bodley and Associates, is named 2017 CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

Norway high-performance audio manufacturer Electrocompaniet will introduce its ALNA series, part of its EC Living line of wired OR wireless whole-house audio, at CEDIA 2017.