Crestron Mobile Pro app for iPhone and iPad
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Crestron Mobile has been replaced by Crestron App, which provides exciting new features and Crestron’s latest interface technology. Although Crestron Mobile will be left available for download, it will no longer be actively updated and is intended to support legacy systems only. If your Crestron system currently requires this Crestron Mobile app, please consult your dealer about upgrading your system to be compatible with our latest Crestron App.
Read more about Crestron App here:
http://www.crestron.com/products/model/CRESTRON-APP
Crestron is the leader in home automation, controlling lights, shades, thermostats, entertainment and security. Control is always at your fingertips using Crestron touchpanels, remotes and Web-enabled devices such as iPhone™.
Crestron Mobile harnesses the power of 3G and Edge networks to stay connected to the home or office when you’re on the go. View alarm status, adjust lights and room temperature while lying on the beach or sitting in traffic. Crestron Mobile is compatible with the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod® touch, and iPad.
Crestron Mobile Pro provides even greater power and flexibility to control your whole house, including pre-set audio and lighting scenes, home entertainment and more.
Crestron Mobile Pro provides the most powerful and complete app for whole house control. Crestron, the leader in home automation controls all home entertainment, lights, shades, thermostats, security and pool while at home and away from touchpanels, remotes and iPhones (original, 3G and iPod® touch). Simply touch the phone to select movies, music and TV in any room. Adjust volume, light levels and room temperature with just one touch. Using the home WiFi network locally or the powerful 3G and Edge networks remotely, total control is always at your fingertips from one simple app.
Just getting started? Try Crestron Mobile free to experience the power and reliability of Crestron home control.
Pros and cons of Crestron Mobile Pro app for iPhone and iPad
Crestron Mobile Pro app good for
There is a big difference between this version and the free one. After the first time connecting, it stores everything on your iPhone or iPod touch so that subsequent connections are super fast. Dropped connections are also very rare ...totally worth the $99 price! Thank you, Crestron, for making these improvements! Still hoping to see more in the future, such as gauges, sliders and clock.... what would be totally cool is if your Crestron processor could set its system time based on the iPhones clock... we do Yacht systems and this would be a useful feature to have when the boat moves into a different time zone (obviously pretty useless for a land-based system)
With the new Prodigy line Crestron has entered the entry level home automation playing field. So I am surprised at the little amount of reviews. I have the Crestron Prodigy system in my home and I use the Mobile Pro app on both my iPhone and iPad. It works great. Once connected and updated the commands both sending and receiving is instant. The initial update upon first connecting each time could be a little faster. It takes about 15-30 seconds to update. (Update is when the system is checking the status of each controlled item. Is the family room audio on, game room lights on, etc...) I have programmer additional items to the app like garage door open/close plus status of the garage doors. This is awesome if you leave the house and forget to close them. Only 5 stars because I think the "update" could be faster and I wish for more out of the box theme options.
Please update to retina display!
Crashes on latest beta of iOS 5 BTW.
Been using this since March. Good speed, no noticeable negatives when compared to iPad version. Maybe faster somewhat.
Since iOS beta 5 v5 (and through 7 so far) app crashes completely after GUI loads. Awaiting updated app!
Im totally impressed with this app. I never thought Id really need to control my home from my iPhone, but now that I can it makes my life way better. Adjusting the climate is a MUST HAVE. It came in handy this past summer with our wacky temperature changes…being able to see whos at the front door from anywhere is incredible. I get to keep tabs on where the kids are around the house too! I highly recommend this. Thanks Crestron!
Looks the update fixed the connectivity issues. Everything seems to be working great now. I cant tell you how convenient it is to be able to have access to my home even while Im away. If anyone has ever thought about automating their home, do it! Its a life changer.
Some bad moments
It is very unbelievable to imagine how is it possible someone buy an app worth $100 buck and dont have it working full screen on their iPhone 5 until these days!! Shame on you guys!
Update on iPhone did not work and my screen now goes blank. Do not download last update. Have reported problem 3 times and received no response.
Used to work like a charm! With all the new updates has really gone downhill. Screen doesnt rotate at all and is very unresponsive!
UPDATE: After trying to use this and troubleshooting for days here is what I have learned on my own;
1. Itouches and iPhones have horrible WIFI. When running the Crestron program there is a heartbeat being sent a bunch of times a second and if the iTouch misses one of these because of some interference the program tries to reconnect which takes 3 to 4 seconds which was happening at about once every minute. Annoying and unuseable!!
2. There is no timeout on the itouch WIfI but the Crestron program crashes Apples WIFI and shuts WIFI down, making the user press home and then wait for reconnect and reopen the Crestron program.
3. These are the same problems that I have with the free version and I will not recommend the use of these programs to my clients anymore since every time I have has ended in disappointment.
Crestron doesnt seem to want to acknowledge that their app crashes the WIFI on the iPOD/iPhone causing the user to have to press the home button wait for WIFI reconnection then load the App again. I have used many different setting and I am using the recommended WAP from D-link. I cant be the only one with this problem. I have used wireshark to trace the network packets and noticed bad packets being sent from 4 different installations but that doesnt cause the crash. I have contacted Crestron multiple times and they say they never heard of this problem.
Usually Crestron has great support but it seems that this app is just a side project and not important. Well it is important to the client that is trying to run a custom programmed show in front of hundreds of people. This product is too risky to use anywhere other then someones home when they dont care if it could crash at any given time.
These guys are so incredible that they havent even managed to make a HD icon for the software and retina displays have been around for much more than a year now…. makes you ask yourself where is the attention to detail???
Labels overlap and locked on landscape. We pay too much for this system to have this kind of issue.