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Crestron Home OS Launches a Huge Update with 20 New Features & Integrations

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Crestron Home has been dramatically upgraded
A new Crestron Home OS display showing in-app branding

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Crestron Electronics, one of the industry’s leading providers of control solutions and more for the smart home and home automation channels announced this week a significant update of its popular Crestron Home OS4 system. This impressive update includes more than 20 new features, as well as new important integrations that offer integrators a mind-expanding opportunity to better design solutions for clients…not to mention drive greater scalability for both residential and commercial installations.

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October Housing Starts Show a Surprise Upturn in Construction; But Builder Confidence Declines

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This completed home was once a housing start

Is this the beginning of a new trend? After a notable jump in September, which some suggested may have been a bit of a fluke, residential construction – known as housing starts – actually surprised some industry analysts by jumping again in October. And while the amount of increase was more modest, that there was another month of increase may indicate the beginning of a new trend. Yet other data calls into question just where residential construction is heading. Read on to see that data…

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August Housing Starts Hit Lowest Level in Three Years

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Homebuilder Sentiment Drops for First Time in Seven Months

Yet another sign of the struggling housing industry as climbing mortgage rates and historically high home prices combine to drop new residential construction – known as housing starts – to their lowest level in three years. Both single-family housing starts and overall housing starts, which includes multi-family dwellings, saw significant declines in August.

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On a Mythical Quest of Ascension, Lenbrook Acquires MQA

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Image from MQA website
Image from MQA website

*BREAKING NEWS*

Lenbrook Corporation, a Canadian company that holds a portfolio of premium specialty brands, announced this morning it has acquired the assets of MQA, ltd., the U.K.-based company behind the Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) high-resolution audio encoding system in a transaction it hopes will breathe new life into the technology that had fallen into a form of receivership upon the loss of its major financial backer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed as part of this announcement.

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Touring the High-Tech TecVision Imaging Lab

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The only way to truly know the performance of a screen is through a detailed and rigorous testing routine. For that, you need a sophisticated testing laboratory space with specialized testing gear – known as an imaging lab. Not all screen companies have one, but Draper’s TecVision does and the company graciously treated me – and via this story, you – for a visit to the impressive TecVision Imaging Lab.

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A Reinvigorated Crestron Says, ‘Welcome Home’ With New Crestron HOME OS 4 Release

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Crestron residential showroom for Crestron Home
Crestron’s new residential showroom in Rockleigh, NJ [Click to enlarge]

Crestron Electronics Corp. (Crestron), one of the largest and most popular custom integration control brands delivering literally thousands of products to both the commercial and residential smart home channels, announced today the launch of Crestron Home OS 4. This exciting new update brings much to the party, not only a more polished and graphically appealing look and feel but also a more intuitive end-user operability. Oh, and not to mention, some exciting new functionalities.

All of which, I got to see for myself in the company’s completely renovated residential-specific showroom. This company is on the move…

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Think You’ve Seen It All? Draper at Home Brings Innovative Shading & AV to CEDIA Expo ’23

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Draper at Home outdoor screens

Draper, Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial and Draper at Home residential shades and screens will be showing a wide array of solutions for both indoor and outdoor spaces at the upcoming CEDIA Expo 2023 in Denver, CO running September 7-9. Included in their displays this year are some of their latest designs, some offering unique solutions to sometimes challenging situations.

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CEDIA Expo 2023 Registration is Now Open

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Can CEDIA Expo 2023 exceed Expo 2022?

Emerald Expo, owner of CEDIA Expo, announced today that registration for CEDIA Expo 2023 is now open. The industry’s largest show for custom integration professionals, the event takes place this year September 6-9, 2023 and returns to the popular Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.

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Enthusiasm Builds at Inaugural Spring Conference; OASYS has Arrived

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Nashville downtown with Oasys logo

Last week, I was invited to attend the inaugural OASYS Spring Conference at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Nashville, TN, aka Music City. Formerly known as HTSN (Home Technology Specialists of Nationwide), the group has been rebranded and infused with new energy as Oasys Residential Technology Group. This spring gathering was its inaugural event launching a new brand, a new operating process, and – I have to say – a new attitude.

It was an eye-opening experience that helped me realize just how serious Nationwide is at cementing Oasys as the bedrock foundation of its buying group dominance.

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Pandora Music & Podcasts are Now Included with Russound MBX Streamers

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Russound MBX front panel with Pandora logo

Russound, a top specialty manufacturer of smart home and connected audio solutions for integrators, announced on Tuesday that the ever-popular Pandora streaming service is now included in the company’s top streaming products. Both the Russound MBX-PRE stereo preamplifier and the MBX-AMP stereo amplifier now have the Pandora streaming service included natively in the device.

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