I've been out of the crestron world for a while now (moved to developing in qsys more). I'm not sure if anyone is still using simpl windows or if everyone is in the c# realm now and what the crestron opinion is on AI development...
If you're still using simpl and want to create some modules for yourself, I have built a claude code plugin to allow for just that (as I'm sure others have as well).

Feel free to test it out. It will create simpl# projects with simpl+ wrappers and compile everything for use in simpl windows.
S+CrossCompiler needs to be installed.

I dont have a 4 series processor, so looking for some tester to get some feedback.

https://github.com/shorty456132/av-module-maker

Is it possible to add Text to speech to dm nax audio zones similar to that one on Sonos chimes driver has?

Hi Crestron community, I have a TSR-310 setup with HomeKit but am in the process of adding a new remote to a new processor. It’s been a while since I done the last one but I see the guide says the processor must be registered to MyCrestron RMS but my current processor isn’t registered, could someone here confirm whether this is a new requirement?

Our Sonos integration on our Crestron panel has stopped working ("source is offline").

Does anybody know how to fix this? .

Crestron version is 2.004.1041
UI version 4.11.1

The integration stopped working when I re-added the Sonos system, because it had became unreachable after a power outage.

I usually export my .vtz to construct amd take it from there. How many of you do the same?

Hi everyone, I’m pretty tech savvy and I learn things a pretty quickly. I really want to learn programming in SIMPL, but I’m hitting a roadblock. I’ve take Crestron’s P101 live course twice and the routing just isn’t clicking. I understand join numbers and can design touch panels in Construct and VT Pro. I’m having trouble understanding what symbols to use for what functions. For example, what does a buffer do and what are examples of uses? What about the one-shot? They did cover the symbols in P101, but it was more like “well, of course you’d use a buffer. Now let’s route the signals” and not exactly explaining why a buffer is used or best use-cases. Does anyone have advice or tips for someone starting out in SIMPL? Thanks in advance. Signed, a determined but very confused future SIMPL programmer.

Hi Minds!

Since I know there are some Crestron employees here and I'm not getting any response from our rep aboutn this, I'm here to make a complain about Crestron Home and it's location. I'm making this post to expose this issue that is SO easy to fix nowadays and that impact a LOT on our clients.

Honest roast:
It has been translated with Google Translate from 2000, not by someone who even understand Spanish (I haven't check other languanges). We are on 2026, with basically free AI for this kind of stuff if you dont want to spend a penny.

The Tranlations are really poor and someones even out of context, for example in the image. "Todos los tonos" doesnt mean ANYTHING in spanish at all.
- tonos? for us that it tones. This is not music or painting!!
- Elementos de oscurencimiento? That isnt even a context in spanish...
- Disabled is translated ad "Discapacitado" that means "person who has a physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory limitation that interacts with environmental barriers and hinders their full participation in society", that one is very insulting. it should be "Deshabilitado".

And the list grow and grow, I could continue the list but that's enough to make my point.

ALSO; the app's language (at least in Android) uses the system language, without the posibility to select it, at least let us select the language to use English since spanish is totally broken. Or at least, create our own tranlation xml so we can fix this by ourself.

We are selling the best world class systems, this cannot really happend.

Hello everyone!

Some days ago I shared Crestron3SeriesCLZBuilder, my open-source tool to stop depending on Visual Studio 2008 when building SIMPL# libraries. Since then it grew into something much bigger, and this release changes everything about how you use it.

Repo: https://github.com/srichardsc/Crestron3SeriesCLZBuilder
Download clz-builder.exe directly: https://github.com/srichardsc/Crestron3SeriesCLZBuilder/releases/latest

The big one: no installation anymore

Every tagged release now ships a standalone Windows executable built by CI:

1. Download clz-builder.exe from Releases
2. Copy it into your driver's folder
3. Open a terminal there: clz-builder.exe setup (first time) → clz-builder.exe run (every build)

That's it. No Python, no clone, no pip. SHA-256 checksum included so you can verify the download.

• One-command builds (run): auto-configures on first use, then compiles, signs and publishes every time.
• Automatic version bumping: every build increments the driver version, so Crestron Home always accepts your upload as an update and reloads the driver. No manual editing.
• Guided setup wizard: checks your PC against all 24 toolchain inputs and prints exactly what's missing and how to fix each one.
• Numbered build stages ([3/10] stage: signing…) plus a final summary with SHA-256 hashes of DLL and CLZ.

It compiles your SIMPL# project into a signed .clz using VS2022/MSBuild instead of VS2008 — calling the official Crestron SDK signing service, never homemade signers. One CLZ runs on BOTH 3-Series and 4-Series processors. You compile once; the package is identical for both targets (only the SIMPL+ .ush symbols are compiled per target).

If it saves you time, leave a ⭐. Issues and ideas welcome!

can anyone point me to a solid visa camera module from crestron/device database?

New to the Ubiquiti Unifi ecosystem, but it looks pretty cool.

Can anyone provide some help on what Unifi Zone Based Firewall rules should be implemented on a Crestron Home system utilizing NVX.

In this case, there would be 3 VLANs (Crestron Control, NVX, and Main/Home LAN).

Can you just implement a simple "allow established/related connection" rule between the Main/Home VLAN with a) Crestron Control and b) NVX (and block everything else)?

Or do you have to open specific ports between certain VLANs? Ex. Does the Crestron Control VLAN need access to the outside world/internet ?

I think the NVX VLAN is straight forward- Unifi now includes an AV-Profile for Crestron, which will ensure all the IGMP/multicast setting are correct. I would assume NVX VLAN would only need to talk to Crestron Home VLAN, so those 2 can be fully opened up to eachother.

Hello Minds!

With all the Visual Studio 2008 chaos, some time ago I developed a tool for internal use to avoid depending on Visual Studio 2008 when building Crestron 3-Series SIMPL# Libraries. I’m now sharing it with the community as open source.

If you find it useful, I'd appreciate it if you leave a ⭐ on GitHub to support its development:

https://github.com/srichardsc/Crestron3SeriesCLZBuilder

If you found any but you can tell me or contribute directly on the repository.

Hope you enjoy it!

We are remodeling our listening/theater room and adding dampening in the corners and changing out window coverings, and redoing floors, etc. As such, the room dynamics are going to change rather significantly, and we need to reset the 'Custom' EQ settings in the XSPA to level out the new room response. For those of you familiar with the XSPA you know that many of the units settings can be configured from the front panel, but of course the room eq/Custom settings are the domain of Toolbox. We don't know the installer, since it predates our ownership and we are not inclined to spend $Ks to have a local dealer come out simply to do room eq, that I already have all the equipment necessary to accomplish (mics, freq analyzers, etc.)

I've done AMX and Control4 systems in the past and I know Toolbox, like all other Crestron sw/fw are closely guarded jewels, but I'm hoping I can appeal to someone in the community here to help me get ahold of Toolbox for this purpose. Please DM if you can help. Thank you!

I was wondering if I can set the room preset to active with teams scheduling, example: every Tuesday 10-11 AM i have meeting using room preset to presentation only. When it start it's activating 3 display and 1 zone of lighting and when it's end it turn of the display and lighting after 2 minutes.

Is it possible? What signal should I use? Thanks before!

Hi all, Anyone experence VTP-e cannot open normally?

Everytime I open it, program will shows the runnung screen. But after it the program will close suddenly. I tried it over and over a time until it open the program probably open.

Why cause it? How to fix it?

Before / After

I've got a project where a TSW-1070 was specified and installed and they want to add a TS-1070 at the lectern as a secondary control point. Apparently the TS-1070 is backordered for a fair bit. I'd like to offer to 3D print something to make the TSW into a TS since Crestron doesn't offer a TTK option for the 1070. Before I model something myself, I thought I would check to see if anyone in the community has a model already that could save me some time.

Is this something every AV contractor charges just for xpanel?

I am not looking for how to install and load xpanel on laptop, but use xpanel as workaround if the main touch panel stops working.

to replace a dead Autonomic MMS-2A? (inherited system, new to Crestron)

Hoping to tap the collective wisdom here. I bought a home that came with an existing Crestron system. The whole-house music source was an Autonomic MMS-2A to a Crestron 6 zone amp. The Autonomic appears to have died. My Crestron home app says source offline and I can’t play music via the device or airplay. Attempting to update the Autonomic driver failed.
So I'm in the market for a replacement streaming device and want to keep the ability to have two sources to different zones.

Options I'm currently weighing:

-A current-gen Autonomic, but the one I have failing doesn’t give me confidence in it.
-2x Sonos Ports
-2x WiiM Pro with a third-party Crestron driver (most economical and I think gets me what I need?)

Ideally I want to be able to start specific Spotify content from the Crestron wall tablet without having to reach for my phone. I'm trying to understand how close each of these actually gets to that on the panel (full browse/search vs. just presets vs. now-playing control only)

What are people using as music source for a Crestron tablet first approach? Any options I'm not considering that integrate cleanly?

Open to any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance.

I can’t find a clear answer for best practice for network design for two questions.

1. Should all crestron NVX devices and Crestron Control devices (CP4, wired touchscreens , tsr310, Infinet gateway etc) share the same VLAN , or two different ?
   

I will be using Ubiquity Unifi and all these devices should share one level 3 switch (Pro XGS 24 port Poe). I would think they could share the same VLAN as the igmp multicast should prevent the control devices from being flooded, when properly configured ??

1. Cameras and 2N intercom. Unfortunately when using RAVA:Crestron for sip calling from 2N intercom, the 2N intercom has to be on the same subnet as your crestron touchscreens (ex 192.168.2.XX). I will have a bunch of IP cameras and NVR on their own VLAN. How can I get the 2N to stream continuous RTSP video stream to an NVR (VLAN 1) and still be able to do SIP calls to Crestron control tsw1060 touchscreen (VLAN2). Would I just have to create special firewall rules to allow the intercom to communicate to the camera vlan (that would otherwise be private/isolated).

Hi all,

We're setting up some Teams rooms with the new Crestron Collab Computer. Some of them don't show the onscreen keyboard so there is no way to join via ID, call ad-hoc, or log into the settings from the touch panel.

Did many reboots.

Wen't in the Windows side, keyboard works just fine there when activated.

Anybody got the same issue?

I could re-image it, but don't want to when not necessary.

I called Crestron support, they told me that this keyboard comes from the Windows side, so I need to contact Microsoft support...

I'm like, you build this machine, you support it.

I've been practicing my S+ by writing programs that emulate hardware. For example - an S+ Module that acts like a projector (takes serial commands, returns serial feedback, a bunch of digital I/O, etc.). Screenshot

My goal is to run a program of emulated hardware in one slot of my CP3 and program control with a UI in another.

My understanding is that i can use ISC to do that, which i learned about in P201, but have since not touched again.

Can anyone offer me some advice/guidance?

Hey everyone I’m (slowly) starting my Crestron programming journey and wondering what is and isn’t tied to me vs the company I’m currently working for?

I picked up some dated equipment to use for a home lab type environment; CP3N, HR remote, waiting on a wireless module. What I was wondering is if I leave the company I’m with or they shut down will I still be able to use ToolKit and Simpl and can I continue to update the software?

Im not trying to get trained and bounce or anything like that. Im just seeing that the company is struggling to gain new clients and I always try to plan for the worst.