Connect Crestron Custom

A location controlled by Crestron Custom, rather than by Crestron Home, reaches Centro System Manager for Crestron through the Centro module on the local processor. It's the same module that connects a location to Centro in the cloud. Here you point it at this processor instead.

Installing and configuring the module itself isn't repeated on this page. Follow Installation and commissioning in the cloud documentation for loading the program, its admin web page and the location's hardware map. Come back here for the parts that differ with Centro System Manager for Crestron.

Before you start

You'll need:

• The Centro module loaded on the local processor, with its admin web page reachable.
• This processor's address on a network the local processor can reach.
• An administrator sign-in to Centro System Manager for Crestron.

Step 1 — Decide whether locations are created for you

Go to Settings → Settings → General. Under Connections, set Create a location for each new connection:

• On — each connection that calls in without a location gets one of its own, named after the location it reports.
• Off — new connections wait on the Connections page as Not linked until you link them.

The top of the Connections page shows the current setting — "New connections get a location of their own" or "New connections are not given locations" — with a Change in Settings link.

Step 2 — Point the module at this processor

On the module's admin web page, open its Setup screen and set the Server address to this processor's address, in place of a Centro tenant URL:

http://<processor-ip>:8080/

For example http://192.168.1.50:8080/. Port 8080 is this processor's default plain HTTP port, where connections call in when no certificate is asked of them — see Ports and network.

To confirm

Is http://<processor-ip>:8080/ the address to give the Centro module in every case, and can it enrol for a connection certificate and use this processor's connection port (8543) when certificates are required? Centro System Manager for Crestron works this address out for Crestron Home drivers; nothing on its screens states it for Crestron Custom.

Step 3 — Check the connection has called in

Go to Settings → System → Connections. Within about a minute the connection appears in the list with:

• a green dot and Last seen of Just now,
• its IP address and UID, and
• the Location it serves, or Not linked.

With automatic locations on, the new location is already there. Open Locations to check it, then try a command from the location's page — see Control a location.

Step 4 — Link a connection to a location by hand

A connection serves one location. With automatic locations off, or to move a connection:

1. On the connection's row, select Link to a location… (or Change location… if it has one).
2. Pick the location, or create one. A new location starts with the connection's own name; change it to suit.
3. Select Link, Move or Create and link.

Moving a connection stops it serving its previous location.

Find a connection on the Connections page

The Connections page lists everything that calls in: the locations' connections, and the local processors and touch screens that have been adopted.

Control	What it does
No groups / By location / By processor	Lists the connections flat, or grouped by the location they serve or the processor they run on.
Table / Cards	Switches the layout.
Search	Name, location, IP, MAC, UID or model.
Type	Crestron Home driver, Crestron Custom module, Touch screen, Processor or Other, as each connection reports itself.
Location	Linked to a location or Not linked to a location.
Connection	Online, Standby, Offline, Not seen for a day or Never seen. Only the states some row is in are listed.
Setup	How far a touch screen or processor is set up — see Discover devices.
Certificate	Where a driver's or module's certificate stands: Secured, Not required, In progress or Problem — see Connection certificates.
Controls	Drivers and modules that can control a given thing, such as lighting, climate or shades.
Needs attention	Only the rows someone should look at: a sign-in that is untried, refused or on hold, a touch screen that moved address, a certificate problem, or a driver or module that hasn't called in for a day.
Clear filters	Shows every row again.
Refresh	Reads the list again.

The line above the list counts what's there, for example "14 connections: 10 modules, 2 touch screens, 2 processors · 9 of 10 modules linked to a location". While filters are on, it starts with how many are shown. The settings page for this screen is Connections.