I would love to go Crestron, but I would want to do my own programming. Crestron Home seems to allow for “tinkerers” much better than the regular line, but right now, I would want to do some custom UI work and limit it to the home theater room. Crestron Home doesn’t seem to allow that. It really is aimed at a “whole house” paradigm from the demos that I’ve seen.

In the short term, I may try to use an Arduino with a IR receiver and RS232 as a proxy to the speakers. Then I’ll just filter the IR codes in the proxy and only pass through the ones I want (power on/off) to the speaker via RS232.

Longer term, I’ll continue investigating Crestron and others to see if there’s a good solution that allows for me to tinker. smile

1. Trinnov Alt32, Meadowlark Semi-custom 4-way Digital mains, Custom 3-Way Digital center, M6, DSP420, HSU VTF2
2. G68D, DSP6000, DSP5kC, DSP420