Re: Topics in Home Automation - New Article in Residential Tech Today
I'm so glad I can provide amusement for the group🙂
Jay
On 12/18/2024 4:15 PM, ZS via groups.io
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Rumor has is, the same guys are going to release SmartBalls
next year :D
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Re: Topics in Home Automation - New Article in Residential Tech Today
Rumor has is, the same guys are going to release SmartBalls next year :D
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Re: TSW-1060 Weather Application v2 and weather widget work on my bench but not at client's site?
I've had this happen. I don't know why, but I did stumble on a kind of "fix" last time. When I selected the location zip code and set as default, things started working again. On a few TSWs, I had to power cycle them to get to the location selection page, but once there, setting the location again brought things back. Might be worth a shot.
Regards,
Jonathan
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Re: Topics in Home Automation - New Article in Residential Tech Today
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that there's a product called "MeatStick"!!
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From: crestron@groups.io <crestron@groups.io> on behalf of jbasen via groups.io <jay.m.basen@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 1:40:32 PM
To: crestron@groups.io <crestron@groups.io>
Subject: [crestron] Topics in Home Automation - New Article in Residential Tech Today
The idea for the MeatStick grilling thermometer was hatched when a group
of friends became distracted at an afternoon barbecue and overcooked
their steaks. I've written several articles about the company's
products. However, their latest product, MeatStick V, is a major step
forward for backyard chefs trying to prepare the perfect meal.
You can find the article on MeatStick V here:
https://restechtoday.com/more-accurate-cooking-with-the-meatstick-v-thermometer/
For those interested in earlier articles that I've written, you can find
those here:
https://restechtoday.com/author/jaybasen/
For these interested in even earlier content that I wrote, you can find
it all here though older content has formatting issues due to a transfer
from blogspot to wordpress.
https://topicsinhomeautomation.wordpress.com/
Thanks
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Re: TSW-1060 Weather Application v2 and weather widget work on my bench but not at client's site?
I'm no expert, but my gut and my troubleshooting rules ask: what IS different?
-CAT cables all good?
-addreses/IP table(s)
-controller model?
-controller FW?
-is it a managed switch?
SOMETHING must be different, although I've seen some weird things.
One time I had to deal with a Serial cable that pinned out fine (through the connectors as well) but the item wouldn't respond.
After making another one, it worked fine. Put the old one back and it would not.
Go figure. We never did find out why.
Good luck, and let us know what happens!
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Re: TSW-x70 button press responsiveness
I've seen it on a CH5 webpage where holding a button will give a momentary press. Rinse, repeat and it will then show my holding the button down
I notice this specifically with CH5 but I notice it more on the x60 series, especially the 1060. My theory is that the same hardware drives a larger screen at higher resolution, but maybe it's my CH5. That said sometimes I even have the issue on web XPanels so maybe it's not hardware related at all.
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Re: Crestron Go on iOS, any way to keep connection active
Just for big picture perspective, since Crestron fully supports talking TCP/UDP over the network, nothing stops anyone from leveraging that capability to just talk to Crestron by developing native iOS apps using Xcode and the Apple Developer Program ($99/yr) and then following Apple's workflow for "ad hoc distribution".
By "ad hoc distribution", I mean the workflow where you're not publishing to the App Store, but instead, collecting the UDID (device identifier) of the specific iOS devices you want to load to (Apple limits each standard developer account to 100 such devices) and then pushing the app directly to phones via a provisioning profile. If this works so well for you that 100 devices isn't enough, Apple's $299 Enterprise program is the next level up, and cuts out the provisioning profile step, in favor of a slicker "enterprise distribution" system.
I don't think Crestron will be the least bit unhappy if more Crestron gear gets sold to happy clients who are using it whichever way they want.
With a native iOS app you can support all the widgets and other OS-specific functionality you want. Sure, it's a custom baked solution per client, and off the beaten path compared to using the standard Crestron tools. But again, Crestron fully supports native TCP/UDP communication, and that includes to native homemade iOS clients you make in-house, for which there's absolutely no question as to whether widgets or other iOS functionality will be available. And ChatGPT has plenty of access to Swift code to have trained on, and can babystep programmers whose experience is something other than iOS into pivoting their existing knowledge and experience onto iOS.
Food for thought!!
Regarding the play/pause FOR RESI...the older Crestron app for Android (not Go) supported notification widget buttons. It was so convinient there, I had play/pause, prev/next and volume contol, 6 buttons I believe. The app didn't have to be in the foreground for this to work.
Now that iOS supports widgets, I wonder if there is automation app that you can create custom widget with a few buttons, and simply have a UDP packet sent to crestron. Programmatically/SIMPL change what source/room the widget control, based on last selection in the Crestron app for that IPID.
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TSW-1060 Weather Application v2 and weather widget work on my bench but not at client's site?
What would explain why the same VTP project on two different TSW1060 panels of the same firmware (3.002.1061) works in one location and not the other?
At both locations they pass TESTDNS
TSW-1060>testdns www.cnn.com
IPAddress = 151.101.131.5
TSW-1060>
Yesterday on site I set the panels to DHCP just in case that was an issue, no change.
I assumed that ensuring DNS worked was all they would need but maybe I'm wrong? Anyone? Thx in advance
OP
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Re: Crestron Go on iOS, any way to keep connection active
Regarding the play/pause FOR RESI...the older Crestron app for Android (not Go) supported notification widget buttons. It was so convinient there, I had play/pause, prev/next and volume contol, 6 buttons I believe. The app didn't have to be in the foreground for this to work.
Now that iOS supports widgets, I wonder if there is automation app that you can create custom widget with a few buttons, and simply have a UDP packet sent to crestron. Programmatically/SIMPL change what source/room the widget control, based on last selection in the Crestron app for that IPID.
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Re: Crestron Go on iOS, any way to keep connection active
Do you have the iPad set to go to sleep? Did you try turning off the sleep and leave the screen on and make the customer manually turn it off when done? Yea not great for battery life but the device should stay on and connected.
This is one of the reasons why I always tell our sales team NOT to sell an iPad/phone as a control device for a video room. Its always an issue.
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Re: TSW-x70 button press responsiveness
I notice this specifically with CH5 but I notice it more on the x60 series, especially the 1060. My theory is that the same hardware drives a larger screen at higher resolution, but maybe it's my CH5. That said sometimes I even have the issue on web XPanels so maybe it's not hardware related at all.
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Re: Crestron Go on iOS, any way to keep connection active
We desperately need to have a fix for this
connection times are getting slower and slower.
many customers now increasingly frustrated with connection times by the time they wake the app up to pause something, gone the moment has passed.
I have tried loading file direct to phone, turning off check for update all to no avail.
Please Crestron help with this, also while we are at it a server so we no longer need to port forward.
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Re: 4-Series Processors, SSL, and VPN connection
Thank you for all the suggestions, everyone.
The two processors and touchpanel are all on DHCP, plugged into the same switch. Their gateway/subnet mask information are all received from the DHCP server and therefore are the same. I can reach the touchpanel with no issue.
dblpnt - This looks like the right answer. I'll have to wait until I'm onsite to check, but this makes perfect sense!
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Re: Alexa Voice Commands Not Working
Thanks John. I solved the problem this morning. I’ve been using the Alexa app on my iPad. This morning I had to recharge my iPad so I switched to my phone. Suddenly there was a message to relink my account. Once that was completed everything started working again.
Thanks to everyone for their help
Jay
Jay have you tried a processor reboot? Any site where Alexa stops working that I have seen a processor reboot fixes it. Seems to be necessary after a long period of time like a year or more.
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Re: Alexa Voice Commands Not Working
Jay have you tried a processor reboot? Any site where Alexa stops working that I have seen a processor reboot fixes it. Seems to be necessary after a long period of time like a year or more.
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Re: Alexa Voice Commands Not Working
The light bulb at the bottom to go-to the lights page. Then it just pops up at the top.
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Re: Alexa Voice Commands Not Working
Hi Eric,
Which light bulb in the Alexa app?
When I look at my Crestron devices in the Alexa app they say "device is unresponsive". If I try turning a light on/off it says "server is unresponsive".
Thanks
Jay
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On 12/16/2024 3:04 PM, Eric Luckart via groups.io wrote: When my system disconnects, if I launch the Alexa app and select the light bulb, if not immediately then after a few moments it will say "Crestron is unlinked, do you want to relink" at the top of that page. I select it and it jumps out to a linking page.
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Re: Alexa Voice Commands Not Working
When my system disconnects, if I launch the Alexa app and select the light bulb, if not immediately then after a few moments it will say "Crestron is unlinked, do you want to relink" at the top of that page. I select it and it jumps out to a linking page.
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Re: Alexa Voice Commands Not Working
Thanks Gary. That would be great!
There are three key voice commands we're really missing. I'm
going to move those to the hubitat. The rest can wait until
Thursday.
Thanks again
Jay
On 12/16/2024 2:50 PM, Gary Miller via
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I'll be at this project on Thursday, I'll document the process
and get it to you.
On 12/16/2024 3:47 PM, jbasen via
groups.io wrote:
Thanks. The only option I'm seeing is to disable the skill
and then re-enable it. I know if I do that all my linked
Crestron devices will go away and have to be rediscovered.
This will delete all devices from my routines and I'll have to
manually fix all that. But, first I'm going to have to
document what devices are triggered in each routine. What a
mess.
If this happens again, I'm going to drop the Crestron skill
and just do everything through my Hubitat. I've never heard
of anyone having a problem with the Hubitat Alexa Skill and I
already use it for triggering announcements and other actions
on Alexa devices.
All that is required is to create a virtual switch on the
Hubitat, have the Alexa routine turn the virtual switch on/off
and my Crestron Hubitat driver will allow that action to be
seen by the Crestron processor.
Thanks again
Jay
On 12/16/2024 2:27 PM, Gary Miller
via groups.io wrote:
I don't completely recall, I just dug around
until I found a button that re-enabled it. I still don't
know what causes it to disable itself, but it has happened
several times since then, and the client was able to turn it
back on himself.
If you discover a permanent solution please
let us know, thanks.
Thanks Gary! You are right. I
just played with the skill and now it is
telling me that the Crestron Home Automation skill
isn't enabled. What
process do you use to re-enable it. I didn't see that
as an option in
the Alexa app on my iPad.
Thanks again
Jay
On 12/16/2024 2:00 PM, Gary Miller via groups.io
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> I have a system where the skill in the Alexa app
keeps becoming
> unenabled, re-enabling it fixes it until it
happens again.
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>> I've had Alexa voice commands to control my
Crestron system set up
>> ever since Crestron released the drivers for
it. Suddenly control of
>> Crestron lights, etc. from the Alexa app,
Echo Show devices, and
>> through voice commands has stopped working.
When I look at the
>> Crestron skill in the Alexa app, it says that
the skill is "linked".
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>> Any hints / ideas on getting this working
again would be greatly
>> appreciated. I'm really trying to avoid
deleting everything and
>> re-establishing all devices. I have a lot of
Crestron device control
>> commands wrapped in Alexa routines and I know
those would all be
>> broken if Alexa thought all the Crestron
devices were deleted.
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>> Thanks in advance for the help
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>> Jay
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