Pandora Comes to Crestron's Home Automation Systems

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For decades, Crestron has been innovating in the world of home automation. Their easy to use and attractive in-wall touch panels can control nearly every electronic aspect of one’s home: audio, video, lighting, heating and air conditioning, window shades, and security systems. Pandora offers perhaps the best solution to Internet radio. And until earlier this week, Pandora could not be used on Crestron home automation systems. Click past the jump to see how Pandora has been implemented into Crestron’s systems.

Crestron’s home automation systems use an Internet RadioTuner Card to connect to Internet radio stations. This tuner card now supports Pandora’s one-of-a-kind music listening experience. As someone who enjoys Pandora every day, this is a big deal. Instead of plugging in an external device to listen to Pandora, just update the firmware on your Crestron device. Users will have full access to Pandora from every room in the house.

Simply walk up to a touch panel or use a remote to control every aspect of Pandora. Just peek at the remote to see what is playing. Use the thumbs up and thumbs down gestures to customize your stations just as you would on a computer. You can type in the name of your favorite artist, save it as a station, and play that station around the house.

Crestron’s home automation systems offer customers a nice little Easter egg to make their experience just a little bit better. Instead of being tied to controlling the system from the Creston touch panels and remotes, the entire system can be controlled using a smart phone or a tablet. That means that you can pull your iPhone out of your pocket and change the song playing throughout the house, from anywhere in the house. Bringing Pandora into Crestron’s systems makes the whole thing sweeter.