Crestron's home automation iPhone app demoed at CEDIA

Make no mistake about it, the iPhone (and the App Store in particular) has made the lives of many home owners much, much easier. As it stands, there are already a few apps out there that interface with Crestron gear, but to date, there's no official Crestron app to fiddle with. But give it 60 days or so and there will be -- at least, that's the good word over at the company's booth today at CEDIA. Said application will be 100% free to download, and as you can see in the gallery over at Engadget HD, it elegantly enables wired home owners to control lighting, temperature and all sorts of other things via WiFi or 3G, at home or anywhere else in the world. Users can even program in settings for multiple houses, enabling them to turn the AC on in Orlando while blasting the heat in Jackson Hole. So let's see, all you need now is an iPhone, a couple properties, a few dozen grand to blow on Crestron HA gear and a tiny bit of patience.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 5:35PM]

I have been able to control my HAI system for about 1 year from my winmo phone.... Granted it was its web interface but it works well.

[Brad Hubbard Posted Sep 9th 2008 12:59AM]

But not with an iPhone!!!!!

I wrote a Rails interface for my X10 gear almost two years ago and was able to easily log in with my WinMo phone and control lights remotely. I could even use my old Axim to do it. Hell, I even gave it a pretty AJAX interface once I got Opera on there. But everyone at Engadget shits themselves whenever the iPhone does one more thing that's been available for quite a while to everyone else but they never bothered to look for.

How exactly has "...the iPhone (and the App Store in particular) has made the lives of many home owners much, much easier." Many? Really? How exactly has it done this?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 6:12PM]

Sick, straight up sick. I want one. I guess as soon as the iPhone get's MMS, copy and paste, stereo bluetooth, a decent camera with auto focus and becomes available on Verizon, I wil.

It may never happen, will it?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 6:19PM]

Edit: i didnt mean to make the iphone sound bad, it is still by far the best mobile computer/phone on the market, im just really excited about how it will evolve and become even better. iphone FTW!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 8:19PM]

Ya, it's easy to hijack someones identity on engadget. Nice try though. The real snowenloe is unbiased and not a fanboy.

[slamEVIL Posted Sep 5th 2008 9:52PM]

WTF

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 10:14PM]

sorry about that third one ^^
that was meant for another story.
iphone FTW!!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 5th 2008 10:16PM]

I love the iphone too :)

[slamEVIL Posted Sep 6th 2008 11:06PM]

LOL!!!!!!!

alright someone's an ass.

identity hijacking...FTW???