Denon, Marantz Add Crestron Compatibility
Denon's now Crestron-compatible AVR-X3000
Several of Denon and Marantz's products have been certified as Crestron Connected, Crestron announced Tuesday.
The functionality will be added to Denon models AVR-X3000, AVR-X4000, and AVR-4520CI and Marantz models SR6008, SR7008, AV7701, and AV8801, via an online firmware update.
“By embedding Crestron intelligence in Denon and Marantz receivers, it allows for seamless communication with Crestron home automation solutions, giving installers a simplified home theater solution and homeowners complete control of their home entertainment system," Steve Samson, director of business development for Crestron, said as part of the announcement.
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Crestron's Smart Home Showroom in London's Chelsea Harbour is a state-of-the-art exhibition of home automation,
from home cinema and lighting
to music and security.
ELAN Announces g! 6.5 Update with Many New Drivers and Enhanced Lighting Control
ELAN g! now supports the latest drivers for Autonomics audio streamers, ONVIF compliant IP cameras, iLight systems, additional IC Realtime DVRs, Snap AV DVRs and NVRs, and the newest AV receivers from Yamaha, Denon, Marantz, Integra, Onkyo and Pioneer Elite.
Demonstrating its commitment to continuously update the award-winning ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System, ELAN Home Systems today announced the release of its ELAN g! 6.5 Software Update, which adds highly desired features such as the ability to hide the volume up/down/mute button for distinct audio zones or interfaces, a ‘hide all zones’ button, a driver for Autonomics high fidelity streaming services, and additional drivers that support the latest AV components, international lighting systems and surveillance cameras.
According to ELAN Home Systems Brand Manager Robert Ridenour, the support of several new component families makes ELAN g! more powerful than ever and expands dealers’ options even further.
“We are adding new drivers and features to ELAN g! every day, giving dealers and users more choice and more power to control their entire home or business easily and affordably,” Ridenour said. “With added support for products from Autonomics, Yamaha, Denon, Marantz, Integra, Onkyo, Pioneer Elite, iLight, IC Realtime and SNAP AV, plus many ONVIF compliant IP cameras, we are making the g! system easy to integrate all over the world, lowering the total cost of installation, and allowing for more user choice. What’s more, today we’ve expanded the level of user control with the ability to hide volume settings for certain zones, interfaces or users.”
For systems that include ELAN Lighting by Pulseworx, ELAN g! now allows the homeowner to set and adjust their lighting scenes for not only g! executed scenes, but also for all wall keypad executed scenes. In the past a dealer could set up a “virtual” custom scene on an ELAN interface and the homeowner could make and save adjustments. However, if a similar scene was also executed by a wall mounted keypad (a “physical” scene) the two scenes would be different. ELAN g!6.5 ties the physical scene together with the virtual scene so that changes made by the customer to the virtual scene are programmed into the physical keypads as well. This is a first for a control company and provides greater flexibility to ELAN g! systems that utilize ELAN Lighting by Pulseworx.
The g! system now supports integration with an even larger pool of third party devices, including new Autonomics streaming audio servers, IC Realtime DVRs, SnapAV 300 Series DVRs and NVRs, iLight lighting systems, and the following AV receivers: Yamaha RX-A3030, 2030, 1030, 830 & 730; Denon AVR-X4000, 3000, 2000 & 1000; Marantz SR-7008, 6008 & 5008; Integra DT-R60.5, 50.5 & 40.5; Onkyo TX-NR929, 828, 727, 626 & 525; Pioneer Elite SC-79, 77, 55, 72 & 71. All AV receiver drivers have been updated to include support for international versions, if available.
The newly supported Autonomics streaming servers include the MMS-5 and MMS-5A, which deliver the most popular high fidelity streaming music sources including Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody, Tune-In Radio, Sirius|XM and more.
The ELAN g! system now allows HouseWide Utiliti to create event map triggers for when the OSD is activated/deactivated or when AirPlay is activated/deactivated, helping to create an even more immersive and effortless home control experience for users. That makes it "My Home, Better Served".
Contact us for your own HouseWide System Design consultation - Support@HouseWide.net
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Cyber Monday?
How about Cyber EVERY DAY?
Ever wanted to feel that you got the deal of the day, every day?
HouseWide System Design offers an almost infinite variety of music, from your media or from the Cloud, in true audiophile sound. And, a world of dazzling visual entertainment, from movies, sports, news and more, in any and every room you desire. And it's all integrated seamlessly with the other systems that make your home comfortable and safe, from climate and lighting to video surveillance and security- all from our “Cyber” design system.
Hands on/Hands off
Wherever you are, you're in total control. With one, graphic, easy-to-use interface on a wide variety of devices, from handheld remotes to tabletop or in-wall touchpads - HouseWide System Design gives you the ability to arm and disarm your system, as well as monitor your home for burglary, theft, carbon monoxide, fire, flood or smoke, from almost anywhere.
But HouseWide System Design also features hands off features, maintaining the everyday mundane home maintenance that the other “smart homes” miss, which costs you money, safety and convenience that our home management is designed to do.
So get your Cyber game on! Give us a call on how we can design a home management system to fit your lifestyle, so at the end of the day you can relax and say, “My Home, Better Served”
Contact us for your own HouseWide System Design consultation - Support@HouseWide.net
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Yes, HouseWide System Design is very easy & fast to use.
ABC Television - "Whodunnit?"
HouseWide System Design Revealed!
Just this last week of July,
HouseWide System Design completed a house-wide design and installation at the house featured on ABC's "Whodunit?" summer series seen on ABC Sundays 9pm.
HouseWide System Design provides control, status, and history for climate, security, lights, music, theater and gates.
Yes, HouseWide System Design is very easy & fast to use.
Consider a real life example. This week, the homes visiting foreign house guests were provided three iPad Minis with the HouseWide app. Immediately guests took control of the house with setting their own desired room temperature comfort levels, armed security alarm overnight, controlled gates/convenience lights and played music of their native country around the pool patio.
Additionally, the owners, while either on-site or off-site, oversaw activities at a glance of their own iPad/iPhone to assure the house guests were comfortable and accommodated.
Ironically, the HouseWide design gave this weeks house guests greater house control than the owners have had in the past 7 years of home ownership. HouseWide Design integrates 14 climate zones, 50+ security points, over 300 lighting loads, 16 music zones, 1 home theater and 2 drive gates.
HouseWide System Design clients favor home to be calm, cool and connected.
Whether for convenience or to conserve, it's "My Home, Better Served".
Contact us for your own HouseWide System Design consultation - Support@HouseWide.net
ABC Whodunit? Trailer:
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NEW ELAN g! 6.4 SOFTWARE EXPANDS INTEGRATION WITH ADDITIONS TO DRIVER CATALOG AND IR DATABASE
DENVER, COLORADO - September 25, 2013 — Demonstrating its commitment to provide dealers and end-users with continuous updates to the ELAN® g! Entertainment and Control System, ELAN Home Systems has announced the release of ELAN g! 6.4 Software, which promises to greatly reduce installation time. The g! 6.4 release boasts a massive expansion to the IR library database, making it the world’s most accurate standardized IR code set and simplifying installation for ELAN dealers. The software update is also packed with new drivers for security, climate control, DVR’s, NVR’s, I/O adaptors, signal routing products and a new one-way interface for Kaleidescape Media Servers. ELAN will be demonstrating the capabilities of the g! 6.4 Software at CEDIA Expo 2013 in Booth #1120 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
“ELAN is dedicated to helping our dealers complete jobs quickly and painlessly,” Robert Ridenour, ELAN Brand Manager said, “and the ELAN g! IR library expansion does just that by creating a simpler, faster installation process. Through a new partnership with Only One Remote, the ELAN IR Database delivers the most complete and accurate IR code set available today. We believe g! is the best control system on the market, and we will continue to enhance the core functionality and grow the driver database with all the must-have features and third-party products that our dealers and users demand.”
According to Ridenour, the g! system is the easiest, most user-friendly control system on the market, and the new core features and third-party drivers expand the system’s selling features to make it the industry’s most marketable home control system.
“By constantly adding features and third party drivers we are giving dealers and users more reasons to install and expand the ELAN g! system,” Ridenour said. “With added support for products from Kaleidescape, Heatmiser, Lutron and several others, we are making the g! system even easier to integrate, lowering the total cost of installation, and allowing for more user choice.”
The g! system now supports integration with an even larger pool of third-party devices including SnapAV DVRs, NVRs and cameras, Coolmaster and Heatmiser climate systems, security systems including Honeywell, DSC, Paradox and Texecom Premier Elite 48, Wyrestorm HDMI matrix switchers, Kaleidescape media servers, Lutron Radio RA2, QS, QS International and the new Atlona 6x6.Contact us for your own HouseWide System Design consultation - Support@HouseWide.net
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House WiFi ..... Sometimes hot..... sometimes not?
“My house WiFi is like the shower at a cheap hotel. Sometimes it's hot...sometimes not.”
Time to Upgrade Your Home WiFi performance?
Has your home lifestyle evolved to where you expect WiFi service be as available and trouble free as house-wide water pressure? WiFi is integral to home lifestyles, so Housewide System Design now installs pro-grade WiFi networks on every project. Pro-grade covers the entire house and select outdoor areas.
HouseWide System Design understands that common WiFi complaints originate from WiFi node jumping or node hanging issues common with iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. Node jumping or node hanging issues occur when multiple consumer grade WiFi repeaters and access points are utilized. Alternatively, pro-grade equipment, coupled with HouseWide System Design network configuration, connects your WiFi devices through a single node; therefore, no jumping, no hanging.
HouseWide Pro-grade WiFi out performs "all-in-one" Modem/Router/WiFi box units offered by your Cable/DSL provider or even your towns Best-Geek. Also, Pro-grade WiFi has the added benefits of 1) looks better (in your home because WiFi hardware is hidden), 2) costs less (per foot of coverage*) and 3) is remotely managed (firmware, permissions, etc.) by HouseWide System Design.
So, don't spend another minute of your "off-time" trying to fix your house WiFi "up-time". Schedule HouseWide System Design to install pro-grade WiFi for reliable high performance.
* Lower cost in 2500+ sq. ft. house when including installation labor, power distribution/consumption, and semi-annual maintenance of firmware on multiple access points/repeaters.
A client recently responded to this topic -
On 2013-08-12 13:28,
"Yes. I want the WiFi optimum as well....." JLP Sent from my iPhone
Upgrade your house WiFi performance and
be rid of "sometimes hot ...sometimes not" WiFi.
Contact us at Support@HouseWide.net
HouseWide System Design
“My Home, Better Served.”
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The following June 2013 article highlights the work of AM House, a fellow certified Elan g! dealer. Principles of AM House and HouseWide System Design are long time cooperative competitors in the Southern California region. We send our congratulations to AM House on a job well done!
BRYAN CRANSTON CHOOSES ELAN® g! TO CONTROL LEED® PLATINUM HOME
Nationally syndicated TV series “Real Green” features planning, design & building of Cranston’s net-zero energy beachfront California home in Fall 2013.
PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, June 24, 2013 — At a young age, Emmy® award-winning actor Bryan Cranston learned the value of recycling and prolonging the life of things he owns. Today, he has taken his eco-conscious lifestyle one step further by building a new LEED® Platinum certified beachfront home near Los Angeles, California. The home, which Cranston dubbed 3Palms, uses solar panels, radiant heat, low-energy appliances, LED lighting and natural ventilation to cut energy usage, and everything from the lights to the motorized window shutters can be controlled from anywhere in the world through the simple-to-use ELAN® g! Entertainment and Control System!
“My grandparents and parents taught me about recycling when I was a boy,” Cranston reminisced. “It was just part of their lives — composting, recycling, repurposing and using things until they were of no use, not succumbing to the temptation of buying something new simply because it’s new. I’ve been of that mindset for 50 years, so when I started thinking about creating a new home on the beach, I decided I wanted to do a net-zero energy house and get LEED Platinum certification.”
After finding a suitable beachfront plot that housed a very unsuitable, inefficient 1940s home, Cranston began designing the new 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home using every energy-conscious element possible. Considerations include motorized window shutters for protection from the elements, solar panels for electricity, solar thermal units for hot water, house-wide LED lighting, high-performance insulation, wood from FSC certified sustainable forests, and the ELAN g! Entertainment and Control system to make everything easy to use, manage and monitor, including schedules for lighting, heating and security, plus worldwide access to check on the home.
“I’ve already used the ELAN system remotely with the mobile app to check on the security cameras,” Cranston said. “I was rushing out the door, and as I was driving away I had a moment of doubt where I thought ‘Did I close the garage doors?’, so I went on the system and checked the cameras. One of them lets me see the garage, and sure enough it was open! So I went into the system, pushed close, and that was that. It’s worth its weight in gold right there.”
In addition to the security cameras, garage doors and window shutters, the ELAN g! system allows Cranston to use his iPhone or iPad to control his whole-home music system and every light both indoors and outdoors. With pre-set schedules for heating, lighting and security, he never has to wonder whether his home is running at optimum efficiency. The g! system also has a history feature where he can view the past usage of each system and then easily make any adjustments he wants.
Cranston can even see which lights or speakers are on in each room, then turn them off one at a time or all at once. Justin Brees of custom electronics installation company AM House programmed a super convenient ‘Home/Away” button that sets the home up for when he leaves or returns. It’s specially programmed to shut down the house when no one is home, with actions such as turning off all the lights and speakers, arming the security system and closing the shutters. For additional “Away” mode security, some lights go on at random intervals at night to simulate that someone is home.
To show the public that eco-living can still be comfortable and stylish, Cranston is leveraging his celebrity status to share his new green home with television viewers all across the U.S. in a syndicated weekend series called “Real Green”. The series will air in late 2013 and will be broadcast on more than 100 local affiliates and cable networks. It will cover the entire project from conception to move-in and include segments with all of the experienced professionals that helped make his dream home a reality, including the builder Bryan Henson, project designer John Turturro, and custom electronics installer Justin Brees.
Go g!reen at your home and contact HouseWide Utiliti at support@HouseWide.net
Nationally syndicated TV series “Real Green” features planning, design & building of Cranston’s net-zero energy beachfront California home in Fall 2013.
PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, June 24, 2013 — At a young age, Emmy® award-winning actor Bryan Cranston learned the value of recycling and prolonging the life of things he owns. Today, he has taken his eco-conscious lifestyle one step further by building a new LEED® Platinum certified beachfront home near Los Angeles, California. The home, which Cranston dubbed 3Palms, uses solar panels, radiant heat, low-energy appliances, LED lighting and natural ventilation to cut energy usage, and everything from the lights to the motorized window shutters can be controlled from anywhere in the world through the simple-to-use ELAN® g! Entertainment and Control System!
“My grandparents and parents taught me about recycling when I was a boy,” Cranston reminisced. “It was just part of their lives — composting, recycling, repurposing and using things until they were of no use, not succumbing to the temptation of buying something new simply because it’s new. I’ve been of that mindset for 50 years, so when I started thinking about creating a new home on the beach, I decided I wanted to do a net-zero energy house and get LEED Platinum certification.”
After finding a suitable beachfront plot that housed a very unsuitable, inefficient 1940s home, Cranston began designing the new 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home using every energy-conscious element possible. Considerations include motorized window shutters for protection from the elements, solar panels for electricity, solar thermal units for hot water, house-wide LED lighting, high-performance insulation, wood from FSC certified sustainable forests, and the ELAN g! Entertainment and Control system to make everything easy to use, manage and monitor, including schedules for lighting, heating and security, plus worldwide access to check on the home.
“I’ve already used the ELAN system remotely with the mobile app to check on the security cameras,” Cranston said. “I was rushing out the door, and as I was driving away I had a moment of doubt where I thought ‘Did I close the garage doors?’, so I went on the system and checked the cameras. One of them lets me see the garage, and sure enough it was open! So I went into the system, pushed close, and that was that. It’s worth its weight in gold right there.”
In addition to the security cameras, garage doors and window shutters, the ELAN g! system allows Cranston to use his iPhone or iPad to control his whole-home music system and every light both indoors and outdoors. With pre-set schedules for heating, lighting and security, he never has to wonder whether his home is running at optimum efficiency. The g! system also has a history feature where he can view the past usage of each system and then easily make any adjustments he wants.
Cranston can even see which lights or speakers are on in each room, then turn them off one at a time or all at once. Justin Brees of custom electronics installation company AM House programmed a super convenient ‘Home/Away” button that sets the home up for when he leaves or returns. It’s specially programmed to shut down the house when no one is home, with actions such as turning off all the lights and speakers, arming the security system and closing the shutters. For additional “Away” mode security, some lights go on at random intervals at night to simulate that someone is home.
To show the public that eco-living can still be comfortable and stylish, Cranston is leveraging his celebrity status to share his new green home with television viewers all across the U.S. in a syndicated weekend series called “Real Green”. The series will air in late 2013 and will be broadcast on more than 100 local affiliates and cable networks. It will cover the entire project from conception to move-in and include segments with all of the experienced professionals that helped make his dream home a reality, including the builder Bryan Henson, project designer John Turturro, and custom electronics installer Justin Brees.
"My home, better served."
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HouseWide System Design -
Calm - Cool - Connected.....
Hers & His Connected Living Room
Calm - Cool - Connected.....
Calm -The Mrs. desires a calm and welcoming Living Room environment drawing guests to relax and enjoy the occasion. Her living room good design requires attractive, comfortable seating with accents of art, beauty, and style.
Cool -The Mr. needs a cool and exhilarating Living Room environment drawing work weary family members to relax, restore and enjoy the occasion.
His living room good design hosts daily entertainment, sports, news and culture with a comfortable recliner facing a large(r) flat screen television.
Connected - Yes, Her desire is for calm and His need is for cool. Approached separately the two appear to be at odds. With such a disconnect, is there hope for a Calm - Cool - Connected outcome. Good design says, “Yes!” HouseWide System Design integrates fine furniture with fine electronics to provide the necessary balance for seamlessly connecting calm with cool. Thanks to HouseWide System Design, Living Room design can satisfy both occasions. Now, calm design and cool design co-exist in the same Living Room space. Simply stated it's, "My home, better served."
Value judgements - Consider the following comments from homeowners featured in a recent Walls Street Journal article regarding their $2.8 million remodel.
The Budget Buster? A custom storage unit in the living room cost about $5,300. It includes shelves and, more crucially, a space to hide the TV behind a sliding panel. It was installed to balance Mr. Wrigley’s need for a huge television to watch sports and Ms. Leung’s desire to conceal the ugliness of a flat-screen dominating the wall.
What cost more than expected? The integrated audio-visual system, at nearly $61,000.
Now, your project may not end up in the Wall Street Journal, however, the need for good design exists where ever Her desire for Calm appears at odds with His desire for Cool. Contact HouseWide System Design for design answers during your planning stages. Because, regardless of budget, integrated systems will always be more than expected, if not considered an integral element of your Calm, Cool, and Connected home.
"My home, better served."
Cool -The Mr. needs a cool and exhilarating Living Room environment drawing work weary family members to relax, restore and enjoy the occasion.
His living room good design hosts daily entertainment, sports, news and culture with a comfortable recliner facing a large(r) flat screen television.
The Budget Buster? A custom storage unit in the living room cost about $5,300. It includes shelves and, more crucially, a space to hide the TV behind a sliding panel. It was installed to balance Mr. Wrigley’s need for a huge television to watch sports and Ms. Leung’s desire to conceal the ugliness of a flat-screen dominating the wall.