crestron-2-button-keypad

2 Button Crestron Keypad: Simplified Home Automation

AHT Media Crestron, Crestron Installer, Crestron News, Crestron Remote Controls

Even with all of the conveniences of home automation , there is always room for improvement and adding new functionality. For example, if you use your iPad to control your home’s automation system, you know that fumbling through an iPad and trying to open an app in the middle of the night while waking from a deep sleep to turn on …

cedia-expo-2014

CEDIA 2014: Crestron Awards, Pyng and 4K Displays

AHT Media CEDIA, Crestron, Crestron Installer, Planar

The annual convention of the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) was bigger than ever in 2014. Beginning September 10 and ending September 13, over 480 exhibitors filled the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. There were 110 different specialty training sessions offered this year, of which 48 had never been presented before. The dominant theme for home entertainment: cutting …

Crestron’s Newest Touch Screen of 2014: TSD-2020

AHT Media Automation, Crestron Installer, Crestron News

The TSD-2020 beautifully combines a Crestron touch screen and HD video into one slim and lightweight touch control surface that permits total control of your home. Its 20” full HD display offers a larger viewing surface for controlling AV, lighting, security, temperature and other technologies in your home while also delivering excellent video as an HDTV or computer monitor. Its high-sensitivity surface gives touch response …

Are Handheld Remote Controls Dead?

AHT Media Crestron Installer, Crestron Remote Controls

Remote controls, in their earliest forms, were used to control boats. Nikola Tesla invented this form of remote control by radio, not knowing that his initial innovation would later be built upon and used for people’s day to day lives. From the very first wired “Lazy Bones” remote  invented by Eugene Polley to the first-ever wireless television remote invented by …

Crestron’s QMT™ Shade Motor: First of Its Kind

AHT Media Crestron Home Automation, Crestron Installer, Crestron Lighting Control Installers, Crestron Motorized Shades

The first-of-its-kind Digital QMT™ shade motor by Crestron transforms home shading solutions with a brushless DC motor with solid-state control that is incredibly small, yet powerful enough for any job. The Digital QMT motor delivers energy-efficient and virtually silent performance for window shades of almost any size. The motorized shade is so reliable that it comes with a limited lifetime …

Motorized Shades Integration with Crestron

AHT Media Crestron, Crestron Installer, Crestron Motorized Shades

AHT Residential finished project at new icon, The St. Regis in Bal Harbour. This peerless haven of oceanfront elegance, unwavering taste, and seductive amenities.    SHADING SOLUTIONS Roller Shade Systems › Provides quiet, precise control of daylight with full range of fabrics and options › Manual and motorized versions available Drapery Track Systems › Accommodates pinch pleats, Ripplefold® and Accordia® style options …