Oliver,
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To the point of the Driver Licenses...
(In all fairness I did express that it was a hypersensitive subject for me).
I have programmed Crestron for over 25 years, and purchased a fair share of Modules (and now Licenses).? And I do understand the importance of them, and of course people should be paid for their work.? I more than get it with SMPL, anyone can make the module, but not many want to, so they can purchase one.? However, you must admit that it takes a lot more than the Master Programmer, to do what you have done to create a Crestron Home driver.? You will say, Yeah that's my Point "... I know more, so I should get paid more for doing it...".? And you're NOT wrong, Doctors are paid more for their knowledge too.? My point is, We don't have a choice of what doctor we can use, and we can't Self-Medicate.? If I was to purchase a car, and wanted Leather Seats, I understand that that is an add-on (extra Product, extra Work). But now we are buying a car, and being told that if we want A "Driver's" Seat, you have to pay extra. And in the most cases (like? MyQ), "You must use this Company or you don't get a "Driver's" seat". No, this does not make my (presumably chargeable) work easier.? Pasting Modules was easy.? And with the programming time of Home vs. SMPL, our chargeable programming time may even come in less than the (4) Licenses (Pentair, MyQ, Bond Bridge, and Bromic Heaters-keep in mind Bromic requires a license for each type of device) I have to purchase to make the system work.
Like I said this is a rant, I know that licensing is the way of the future (Quicken, Microsoft365), but you can only keep everyone over a barrel for so long.? For the second week this month I was told "...Fine, I'll just use 4 apps instead of 1...".? Crestron Home, is a Smart Home integration system, that makes integration painful.? If Crestron (and its partners) nickel and dime everyone, and the end result doesn't look good, customers are going to go somewhere else.? Tell me no one has ever told you "My Alexa is Easier".
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Back to the BluOS,
I say Tomato you say Control Transport.? It showed two buttons at the bottom of the Control page.? One had Transport controls the other was a Keypad.? If you are saying that the Keypad is how you recall the presets, then I wasn't that far Off, was I? Less appealing than Sonos, That can't be fun to say.
I'm sorry, and I digress.? C'est la vie, whatever it is.. It is. Crestron Home Can't support it well, then it can't support it well.? I just wish I knew that before I told my company how great BluOS has been on SMPL, and how surly it must work with home.
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Finally
I wrote my last post last night after prepping a home for the Home owner to arrive today.
My Techs did use the Trial version to make sure that they could integrate the systems, and get the system working.? With the homeowner coming in and the hardware in the Rack, they purchased the License.
I met with the owner today, and honestly tried to sell him on the GUI, and how well they did work together when he picked media using the app.
The short of it is... He was correct when he said "... We had no business using his new system as a Test-Lab, and that we should have done more research to make sure that we had a Guest-Friendly system...". I spend the rest of the afternoon //CommentingOut the (4) BluOS Players, and simply using the?Vast?(sorry, I'm sarcastic when irritated) music streams of the NAX.
I'm pretty Certain we can put the NAD(4)BluOS in a SMPL system, so not all is lost, save the programming time we can't charge for, and the License Fee (Oh no, here I go again.
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CO Cowboy