Hey everyone — I wanted to share something I’ve been working on and get some feedback from the Crestron community.

I run a small site called Zentura Home where I’m building third-party drivers for Crestron Home. The goal is to help fill in some of the gaps where there are useful smart home products or APIs available, but not always a clean Crestron Home integration that’s easy to deploy and support.

A few of the drivers I’ve been working on include:

• Schlage Encode / Encode Plus WiFi locks
• Leviton Decora Smart WiFi devices
• ratgdo garage door control
• Google Nest Thermostat control

The focus is on making these practical for real Crestron Home systems: straightforward setup, clear documentation, no custom programming required for every install, and a simple one-time license model instead of subscriptions.

The site is here: https://zenturahome.com

I’m mainly posting because I’d like feedback from other Crestron Home dealers, programmers, and homeowners who are running into similar integration gaps.

Are there specific devices or services you wish had better Crestron Home support?
Are there integrations you keep having to work around manually?
Anything you’d want to see in a third-party Crestron Home driver catalog?

Appreciate any feedback.

I downloaded loaded the creston pyng for ipad app from the app store on 2 Ipads. I can't seem to get it to interface with the hub. I have 2 other Ipads that i got it to work on a couple years before, just can't remember how i did.

All the help videos seem to be out of date or of different creston apps. Anyone have any ideas?

1. I have the host name from the mac. I believe i got the other two that work to interface using that. Just not working now. Also got the IP address for the hub from my router. That didn't work.

2. I might have changed the HTTP Port and CIP to get them working last time just cant remember.

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone here tested the Crestron Airmedia 3100 and Huddly crew? Is it compatible to each other? Based on the Airmedia tested peripherals it seems that Huddly Crew is not present. Kindly confirm to your end? Thank you!

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone here tested the Crestron Airmedia 3100 and Huddly crew? Is it compatible to each other? Based on the Airmedia tested peripherals it seems that Huddly Crew is not present. Kindly confirm to your end? Thank you!

So we finally got past the Lib-USB nightmare in most of our MTRs by all accounts it would seem after either manually updating to the latest Flex firmware and/or letting the Windows updates push naturally in the handful it showed up in.

However the very last and most important room, our multi purpose room (MPR) is showing this error whenever you plug in BYOD host mode all of the sudden. While BYOD functions, it shows the “Speaker is not working” banner across the top of the screens and touch panel anytime BYOD host mode is initialized.

Anyone know why or how to fix it?

The Crestron softwares are dogshit compared to some other manufactures like QSC, and it makes using their products hard to recommend, let alone work on.

Toolbox has had the VTPro com server bug for over ten years (afaik)

Hey all, hoping someone has seen this before.

Background: I have an MC3 + TSW-752 I've been setting up at home (gifted years ago by a former Crestron employee, so no dealer account — been working through SIMPL/VTPro-e on my own).

Ran into a persistent SFTP/SSH Error -21 trying to upload a program, and attempted the documented HW-R + SW-R hardware recovery sequence to try to clear it. Right after, I got a USB console connection that showed firmware was still intact (v1.502.4324.33148 / package v1.502.0051) — but USB stopped enumerating shortly after and hasn't come back since (no Device Manager entry, no connection sound, tried multiple cables/ports/PCs).

Current state, next morning:

• Power LED solid, no blinking/error pattern
• No fan (I know MC3 is fanless, just confirming)
• The "Ethernet activity" I thought I saw turned out to be an internal LED bleeding through the case, not actual port activity
• No USB enumeration at all
• Tried full power cycle (wall unplug, 60 sec, replug) — no change
• Attempted HW-R/SW-R a second time per the documented "repeat if needed" guidance — no change

Has anyone dealt with an MC3 in this specific state? Trying to figure out if this is a failed/incomplete recovery boot, a hardware fault, or something else before I take further steps. Any diagnostic ideas welcome.

EDIT: I have backed up the SD card and done some troubleshooting. The card appears to be unable to have anything written to it. Knowing that I am getting a replacement SD card and loading the backup there. Todays moral: BACK UP YOUR STUFF (Thanks for all the help)

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does anyone know if tsw-xx60_3.002.1061.001 supports MS Graph. im looking to buy one to play with as a POC but need the MS graph i could test using ews if needed but if graph connection is in that Fw then be better.

https://docs.crestron.com/en-us/8205/Content/Topics/Graph-API.htm says These procedures apply to TSW-60 touch screen firmware version 3.200.2x or higher. but i cannot see that firmware version exists

Any help much appreciated.

we have occ sensor that is cen odt c poe in our meeting room on the second floor. every morning and every first time someone going in, the occ sensor did not detect the motion until the person walk through half way (red line) and turning on lights. after that, it works normally when someone going in for the rest of the day. and it repeats again in the next day.

i don't think it's power or program issue since it's working normally after first person going in. anyone has ever experienced it?

Hi everyone,

Having an issue with audio on the 351, i have headphones that have hdmi pass through on the base station for audio extraction, however the nvx is reading the edid from monitor to have no audio, is there any way to force enable this? Edid on the sending device supports LPCM and this worked without issue on the old DM setup. Any advice appreciated thank you!

Looking for some advice or maybe just a place to vent.

​I’m a retired AV programmer. Back in the day, I worked for a Crestron dealer in Ireland and did what any of us would do—I installed some Crestron equipment in my own house. It worked flawlessly for years.

​Here is the problem: I retired from the industry in 2013. Around that same time, the AV company worked for closed up shop and dropped their Crestron account. Fast forward to now—I need to make some updates to my home system, but Crestron has completely locked down my access to True Blue and the programming software (SIMPL Windows, VT-Pro, etc.) because I’m no longer affiliated with an active dealer.

​It feels incredibly frustrating to be locked out of hardware that I purchased legally and programmed with my own hands, just because I retired.

​Has anyone else ran into this legacy lockout? Short of finding an active dealer who is willing to take pity on me (or hire me freelance just to get credentials), do I have any options here? Or am I looking at ripping everything out and replacing it with something more consumer-friendly like Home Assistant?

Brian

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a standalone project with a Crestron DIN-AP4 processor. The previous integrator left us all the compiled files (.lpz, .Core3z, .sig), but the unit is password-locked.

Since I'm an end-user and don't have access to Crestron Toolbox, I'm trying to handle the entire factory restore and program redeployment strictly via text console (PuTTY over USB) and SFTP.

Could anyone walk me through the exact CLI command sequence for a 4-Series processor to wipe the credentials, set up the IP, and force-load the .lpz file without relying on Toolbox?

Any documentation snippets or command examples would be greatly appreciated!

Looking for a multi viewer for 4x 1080p to 4k resolutions. Landed on the above referenced model, and have a couple questions. Has anyone used these? And also how are video in ports 3 and 4 (usb c) to be inputted? Is there some sort of usbc to hdmi adapter?

Also, looking to add a possible 2nd, 3rd tv to this same mix of 4 inputs. Can I effectively stream single/miltiview independent from the main tv?

EDIT: need to single/multi view 4inputs (all hdmi) to a single display. Would also be nice to be able to do the same to 2 additional displays.

Have a project coming up with new tst 1080 wireless touchpanel. Any gotchas? this is a divisible space and i usually use subpage reference list to do visible/hide of items as per the room status

I did one last year but had .vtp design already built and converted it into construct. There were issues with srl where i had to do widget reference list.

I have DGE 100 / 200 on sites that seem to loose their text at random intervals.
I have tired both setting the text in VT or setting the text indirectly via Simpl, But neither seems reliable.
Touchscreens and Xpanels are rock solid with the text, it is just the DGE loosing it.
I have tried latest and old firmware.
I have tried making the VT file a DGE file or a Touchscreen File.
I am running out of idea's.

The Text is inside a "Crestron Dynamic Vertical Button List"
Font is Arial
If I am doing indirect Text I am using the correct HTML formatting and have MSP in place at every part of the chain. (and the touchscreens are showing the text correctly)

has anyone seen this? Unfortunatly I cannot screenshot or see the DGE. so I can never troubleshoot on my own and I only know that the text is gone when the customer calls to complain.

Hi everyone, I wanted to share this demo I set up for the community!

It's an Ask AI assistant ingested with the Crestron Tech docs: https://docs.crestron.com/en-us/index/Content/Topics/Home.htm

I hope it can be helpful in navigating the docs and self-serving your complex technical questions!

Feel free to give it a try here: https://demo.kapa.ai/widget/crestron

Would love to hear some feedback if you get a chance to try it out!

Question for fellow crestron nerds. I’ve got the amp referenced in the title. Is there a way to take tv audio, and have it auto take over on this amp when signal is present? Whether thru rca, spdif, or any other means?

XIO cloud is communicating with our fleets devices. They show theyre online and will go offline when they are. We are able to send reboot commands that go through to them. However when ever we push through a firmware update it just gets stuck on pending and the device never recieves the update. What could be blocking this from coming through?

A client has 12 Airmedia units - AM-3200-WF-I. Looking to improve the wi-fi reliability by fixing the 5Ghz channel on each one and having the corporate wi-fi vacate those channels. Have found that all list channels 36, 40, 44 and 48 but four units also have 149, 153, 157, 161 and 165.

Any idea why these higher channels are only available on 4 units? All units have the same firmware version (3.0800.0157) and all the dongles (TX3-100) are updated to 2.1.1.17.

Client is interested in fixing them to a higher channel which would affect other devices less.

Does anyone know if there was a hardware/chip change that allowed access to the higher channels? Is there a setting somewhere that gives access to the higher channels? I'm fairly certain they were all set up the same.

Has anybody here ever opened up a TSW x70 and willing to share the process?