Top 10 most-read stories for the first half of 2019 relate to SnapAV and Control4 merger, Atmos demos, Sonos prices, Tuya (who?), Crestron Pyng, Wi-Fi as a home-automation standard and other IoT and A/V themes.

Customizable ESR580 smart mesh router from EnGenius streams 4K video, provides free private cloud access.

HDBaseT Alliance hosts several members at InfoComm 2019 with latest HDBaseT products and solutions.

A handful of go-to names stand out for CE Pro 100 companies as revealed by the annual Brand Analysis, but the 61 categories tracked also shed light on the increasingly diversified product portfolio offered by today’s highly successful integrators.

Testing tool from Ideal Networks measures PoE class, voltage/voltage drop, watts and injector type, making it easy to see how much power is available for PoE devices.

PB 5 and PB 10 from Torus Power provide toroidal isolation, noise filtering in a compact package.