Earlier this year, we wrote about a batch of robust updates coming to Crestron Home® OS in the summer and fall of this year.

Our summer release went live in early September, and now the fall release is here: Crestron Home OS 4.4.

One of the most exciting aspects of the summer update was conditional logic. To refresh your memory:

These conditional sequences introduce the ability to create “if-then, else” statements to the automation process, giving dealers the ability to create complex and nuanced automation scenarios with a defined set of conditions that must be met before an action is triggered.

“For example, a sunset sequence could be created so that if the light sensor in the living room falls below 30%, the living room's lights rise to 80%,” explains Michael Short, Crestron’s senior director of marketing operations and residential. That transition can be made gradually so that the shift into a warm and inviting ambiance is hardly noticeable (more on that in a moment).

“A multi-trigger sequence could also be introduced so that when, say, a movie streaming source is selected, the system ‘knows’ to dim the lights, close the blinds, and adjust the speaker volume for the best viewing experience,” says Short.

Conditional logic gets new upgrades in this version of Crestron Home OS. With 4.4, you can trigger commands every time the system is restarted. What’s more, driver developers can now include properties in their drivers that can be used in conditional logic in Crestron Home platform. And, in what will make for quicker installations, conditional logic functions can be set in the Crestron Home Configurator (Crestron’s residential cloud offering that is free to all dealers at crestronhome.io), so you can take care of all those “if-then” statements ahead of time.