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Re: Crestron Home Driver Using the Driver SDK
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThis is from a Commercial guy with Residential coworkers (including helping with development of an extension¡which is just plain painful) so take it for what it is: ? There are (at least two) two types of customers: The fiddly, ¡°I want to be able to do anything and everything with any widget I can think of, for a system of any size or complexity¡± and the ¡°I want a level of integration and I¡¯ll more or less take what I can get¡± ? ? Crestron Home is very well suited for the latter ¨C if you can control the rules of engagement and the client is OK with more or less ¡®standard¡¯ functionality, and nothing too crazy as far as size or scope that¡¯s exactly the niche that Crestron Home appears to play nicely with. The tradeoff, of course, is you are given a sandbox and going out of that sandbox is difficult/painful/impossible depending on what exactly you¡¯re trying to do. ? On the other hand the former is not well suited for Crestron Home, IMO ¨C if you have weird subsystems, a giant property (or interdependent properties), very specific preferences on operation, etc. ¨C that¡¯s where full custom programming makes sense. Of course the tradeoff is higher overall costs. ? Think of it like ¡°tract home¡± vs ¡°custom home¡± ¨C sure in the tract home you might be able to change paint colors, carpet vs wood, etc. but by and large the floorplan is going to be the floorplan, the windows will be where the windows are and it might look like 6 other houses on the block (funny story from high school below)¡ but the cost per square foot is going to be lower because an architect is copy-pasting, the builders have muscle memory, and the overall attention to detail may not be a strong. On the other hand with a full-custom luxury build¡ You want 90,000 square feet? Done. Want 2 bathrooms for every bedroom? Done. Need a walk-in closet bigger than some European countries? No problem. Helipad? Sure. But you pay (not just in cash) for that flexibility. ? Lincoln ? ? (Ok so, I grew up in suburban Southern California¡ the land of the endless subdivision. My neighborhood had more variety than some ¨C we had square accent windows and brown trip while the look-alike 3 lots down had rounded windows and grey trim, such variety! Other neighborhoods weren¡¯t as diverse. One of my science teacher/swim coaches in particular, lived in a neighborhood where someone just fell asleep on the Ctrl+V button. One night he was startled to find a somewhat drunken neighbor stumble into his living room¡ not only did their houses look exactly the same 6 doors apart but they had happened to get locks using the same keys) ? ? -- Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS, DMC-E-4K/T/D ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [crestron] Crestron Home Driver Using the Driver SDK ? Sorry for the slight off tipic... |