We had a great time this year at Cedia 2017 held in beautiful San Diego California. Our staff members attended multiple classes and researched new and exciting products.
We attended the Control4 Keynote speech and learned about some pretty exciting news. For Control4 customers with on-wall/in-wall touchscreens, table top touchpanels, and doorstations, a new Beta intercom app has been released. Previously you could only use the intercom panel to panel, or panel to all panels. The new Beta app gives you the ability to call from the app remotely to a touchpanel in your home. Perfect as another way to contact your family or guests if you are not able to reach them on their cell phone. For those with doorstations you can now answer the door station via your iOS or android phone. While on an intercom call users can activate other smart home features such as turning on a light, unlocking or locking a door without leaving the app.
**must have 4Sight for these features to work**
We attended the Control4 Keynote speech and learned about some pretty exciting news. For Control4 customers with on-wall/in-wall touchscreens, table top touchpanels, and doorstations, a new Beta intercom app has been released. Previously you could only use the intercom panel to panel, or panel to all panels. The new Beta app gives you the ability to call from the app remotely to a touchpanel in your home. Perfect as another way to contact your family or guests if you are not able to reach them on their cell phone. For those with doorstations you can now answer the door station via your iOS or android phone. While on an intercom call users can activate other smart home features such as turning on a light, unlocking or locking a door without leaving the app.
**must have 4Sight for these features to work**
Spotify, iHeartradio, and SiriusXM now joins Deezer®, Napster®, Pandora®, TIDAL®, and TuneIn® on the EA controllers, with the release of OS 2.10 you now have all these great streaming services built into your EA controller! Please contact us if you are a current control4 client and we'll get you set up.
Clients who are utilizing the automation portion of Control4's platform finally have the ability to personalize their automation themselves, with control4's new When>>Then personalization. This new feature gives the user direct control of automation events in their home. Now you can adjust what happens when you press a keypad button, when motion is detected, or a door opens or shuts.
Clients who are utilizing the automation portion of Control4's platform finally have the ability to personalize their automation themselves, with control4's new When>>Then personalization. This new feature gives the user direct control of automation events in their home. Now you can adjust what happens when you press a keypad button, when motion is detected, or a door opens or shuts.
“Combined with the skills and stability of a professional installation by trained and certified Control4 Dealers, we’re enabling a perfect blend of professional expertise with a homeowner’s ability to establish and change their automation preferences,” said Martin Plaehn, Control4 CEO. “As homeowners live with and adjust their personalized Control4 home to match the way they live, we believe they will expand their smart home with additional devices and integrated systems, which is great repeat business for our network of expert Control4 Dealers.”
Triad Speakers has announced the release of Triad One Streaming Amplifier, a high fidelity wireless multi-room audio solution. The amplifier boasts 100 watts per channel, two IR outputs for local source control, and a subwoofer output. The Triad One is a great way to add streaming audio to any room, easily, and integrates into your existing Control4 platform.
In Addition to the Triad One, Triad has also released an 8 zone amplifier, a 8x8 audio matrix and a 24x24 audio matrix.
The 8 zone amplifier is powerful and compact (1URU) powering eight zones at 100watts of crystal-clear amplification with an extraordinary -109 dB signal-to-noise ratio and 0.003% total harmonic distortion for fantastic sound in every room.
The new audio matrixes were designed to easily distribute high resolution audio to every room. Available in 8x8 or 24x24, you can even stack two for a whopping 48 zones of audio. These matrixes are equipped with analog, optical and digital coax inputs, reducing the need to purchase additional DAC's for your digital only audio devices. These matrices deliver an astounding, -105 dB signal-to-noise ratio and maintain sound quality from EA controllers and other sources. In addition to that they also feature independent gain, bass, treble, five-band parametric equalizer, balance, loudness, and mono-summing controls for precise audio customization for each audio zone.
Triad knows audio!
The 8 zone amplifier is powerful and compact (1URU) powering eight zones at 100watts of crystal-clear amplification with an extraordinary -109 dB signal-to-noise ratio and 0.003% total harmonic distortion for fantastic sound in every room.
The new audio matrixes were designed to easily distribute high resolution audio to every room. Available in 8x8 or 24x24, you can even stack two for a whopping 48 zones of audio. These matrixes are equipped with analog, optical and digital coax inputs, reducing the need to purchase additional DAC's for your digital only audio devices. These matrices deliver an astounding, -105 dB signal-to-noise ratio and maintain sound quality from EA controllers and other sources. In addition to that they also feature independent gain, bass, treble, five-band parametric equalizer, balance, loudness, and mono-summing controls for precise audio customization for each audio zone.
Triad knows audio!
If that wasn't enough amazing news......Pakedge has released a new Wifi router with Bakpak lite. This small, yet high perfomance router was designed for today's smaller connected homes. The WR-1 delivers 500Mbps WAN to LAN throughput, dual band 802.11ac wireless, 2x2 MIMO antenna array for 1300MBps data transfer and advanced 802.11ac Wave 2 MU-MIMO with beamforming technology. Wave 2 MU-MIMO is the latest, most advanced wireless standard designed to increase wireless performance. MU-MIMO (multi-user, multiple input, multiple output) beamforming technology allows the WR-1 to transmit data to multiple devices simultaneously instead of only one (standard WiFi). The WR-1 supports the additional of two WAPS for wholehouse wireless coverage.
With Bakpak lite, the WR-1 enables us to remotely check on your network, potentially saving your money from a truck roll. Please call or email us to find out more about Pakedge Networking products.
With Bakpak lite, the WR-1 enables us to remotely check on your network, potentially saving your money from a truck roll. Please call or email us to find out more about Pakedge Networking products.
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One of our personal favorites at the show, the Samsung Frame. Finally a television set that everyone can appreciate, including your interior designer.
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One of our personal favorites at the show, the Samsung Frame. Finally a television set that everyone can appreciate, including your interior designer.
Beautiful on, beautifull off, this set is truly dual purpose and pleasing in any environment. Choose artwork from Samsung's library or upload your family photos.
Atlona released OmniStream, a new AV over IP solution that enabled 4K HDR @ 60Hz over Cat5e/Cat6 cabling. It delivers the uncompromised performance you expect from traditional AV distribution, the flexible scalability and cost efficiency of integrating over a standard Gigabit network, and full support for 4K HDR formats – today and into the future.
Coming November 2017
Coming November 2017
That about wraps it up for CEDIA! We thoroughly enjoy meeting with manufacturers and learning new skills from other CEDIA professionals. We are looking forward to providing you, our customers, with these new and innovative products.