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Crestron Lifetime Warranty for Shades, Lighting & Speakers

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Crestron has announced Lifetime Warranties for the their residential product lineup of Shades, Lighting Controls and Speakers in an effort to boost their market share in these categories which is very enticing and a win for the smart home consumer. Below you can view the offerings of what is and is not included with their new Lifetime Warranty.   Crestron's Digital QMT shade motors are included in the limited lifetime warranty. Crestron's Lighting Control Lifetime Warranty is applicable to residential lighting controllers, control panels, control modules, dimmer devices, sensors and keypad devices. The Crestron Speakers Lifetime Warranty is applicable to the Air, Aspire, Essence, Excite, FS and Saros Speaker lineup. For a full in depth view of what Crestron's Lifetime Warranty does include please visit the below link to read more. Crestron Full Warranty Information

Crestron 2017 Smart Home Residential Brochure

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Crestron has just released their new 2017 Smart Home Residential Brochure which can be viewed in full below for a taste of what Crestron currently offers for the high end Smart Home.

Apple TV tvOS 10.2 Update and Features

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Apple's tvOS 10.2 is currently available for download with some new incremental changes that expand the features of the Apple TV. 1.  Discover more with the TV app - 40 apps now supported with the TV app. 2.  Faster List Scrolling - By swiping along the right edge of the remote you can scroll long lists faster. 3.  Rentals Across Devices - You can now for instance rent a movie on you iPad and watch it on your Apple TV. 4.  Remote control from iPad - You can now use the remote control app on the iPad.

Savant Pro da Vinci 8.3 Software Updates and Release Notes

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Savant 8.3 is now available with the new release containing expanded features including new door lock and garage services, re-ordering of services and definable buttons. See the PDF below for the full details of what Savant 8.3 brings.

Lutron Caseta Works With Google Assistant And Google Home Hub Lutron Caseta Setup Instructions

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Lutron Caseta now integrates with Google Assistant on your Google Home device, Pixel phone or selected Android phone and Android wear device. The new integration allows for voice activation and control of your Caseta enabled lights through your Google devices. The setup to get Lutron Caseta working with your Google Assistant is very simple and is done as follows. 1.  Login to your Google Home app. 2.  In the app menu, tap "Home Control" and then "Caseta Wireless". 3.  Login with your Lutron username and password and you are all set. The names of the devices you specified in the Lutron Caseta app are the trigger words now usable with your Google Assistant.  "OK Google" Dim the Kitchen lights by 50%"