LCD launches LCD Dashboard: the whole Crestron Home house at a glance
A live dashboard, alerts and energy estimates for Crestron Home, running on the system homeowners already have.
LCD today released LCD Dashboard for Crestron Home, a driver that gives every Crestron Home house a live overview in any browser on the home network. Phones, tablets and wall-mounted displays show every room at once, flag what needs attention, and estimate what the lighting costs to run.
Crestron Home is built for control: tap a room, dim a light, run a scene. LCD Dashboard answers a different set of questions. Is anything left on? Is a door open? Is the house locked up? It puts the answers on one screen, updated every few seconds.
Every room on one screen
Each room shows its lights and levels, shade positions, doors and locks, occupancy, temperature and what’s playing. A summary bar covers the whole house. Homeowners can pick from four styles, including Ambient, a dark, calm design made for a wall tablet. Wall tablet mode runs the dashboard full screen, keeps the screen on and dims at night.
Alerts that matter
LCD Dashboard watches for a door left open, a device gone offline, a low battery, a security alarm and more. Each alert says what, where and for how long, and can be snoozed or dismissed. Each kind of alert is also a Crestron Home event, so an installer can turn on the hall lights when the back door is left open or send a notification when a sensor battery runs low.
Energy and processor health
The Energy page estimates the lighting’s energy use and cost by room and by load, and shows lights left on in empty rooms or overnight. For installers, a System page tracks the processor’s load, memory, storage and errors over 24 hours and 7 days, with a one-click troubleshooter.
Built for the handover
At handover the installer gives the homeowner a QR code or a printed card. They scan it on the home Wi-Fi and the dashboard opens in their phone’s browser, with no app to install and no account to create. Every screen can carry the installer’s logo, company name and support details.
LCD Dashboard runs on the Crestron Home processor itself. It needs no extra hardware and no cloud service, and the house’s information stays in the home.
“LCD Dashboard is a window to your Crestron Home system and your energy usage, built in your style,” said Neil Silver of LCD. “Homeowners see the whole house on one screen, and their installer’s name is right there when they need help.”
Availability
LCD Dashboard is available now for 4-series Crestron Home processors. A licence costs £200 per processor and includes updates for one year from purchase. A 30-day free trial is available from the LCD Dashboard store page. Downloads and release notes are on the LCD Dashboard driver page, and full set-up guides are on the LCD docs site.
