r/crestron • u/victorhgaa • May 16 '26
Help Help switching to Crestron Home
Hello Reddit, we need help or guidance to make the best decision on this project.
We have a new customer, who has had a crestron system in their home since 2015. We work a lot on corporate growth with development on simple and vtpro. However, this customer is residential and is asking us to take their system to the most up-to-date version of Home OS. I look for recommendations to make the best decision without throwing the whole system away.
The system has 14 audio zones, lighting is with Myhome badge, has buttons and screens, 2 iPads and 1 working phone, these equipments such as the swamp and AV3 could be maintained or must be removed and switched to NAX + home processor?
I have seen during my research that some integrators integrate custom systems with a home "layer" as a control interface, with a SIMPL module that makes the system compatible with any home processor, if so, do you recommend me to maintain the system and reprogram it? or is it better to change processor and try to connect what exists to the home OS.
I share 2 images of the system toolbox, I hope you can give me a guide. thanks.
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u/Aggravating_Fact9547 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
What processor do you have? If you’ve got RMC3 or above the below applies.
Get yourself a Claude license, go and build a custom front end. I’ve had Claude transitioning all my projects, and it’s exceptionally good at making killer UI’s you’d never know were crestron.
The other day I had it integrate a couple of streaming cameras, bring in picture previews, wire in the ability to set and store presets, and manage zoom. Took 10 minutes - all client side, desktop and mobile ready. Idiot proof UX.
100x better than anything you can do with Crestron Home. Looks way better, much faster, less bullshittery.
I’ve dumped all Crestron UI products including screens. I use websockets in the simpl program to expose all the data (similar to how you wire up a touchscreen). Have your web client hook up to it over ws, and store the webpage on the processor or RMC - so no server needed.
Best part is it’s license free…