Crestron AirMedia

Clunky interface that drops constantly. I don’t know why my company uses it. Totally worthless.

This app works great, the only thing holding it back is that it integrates with the iOS to preserve resources. This has the unfortunate side effect of making it the users responsibility to learn to use it. Once I figured out how to use it, and did so multiple times across multiple classroom setups where this was installed, it became significantly easier to use. As the app does everything it’s designed to flawlessly I grant it 5 stars. That said, the school network where this is in use is not optimized for audio and video streaming as of yet and there are noticeable bandwidth issues, problems which this app cannot fix as it runs on the school network.

Doens’t let my iPad connect to any tv with air media.

I have tried to use this app for years in my university classrooms, it worked back in 2020, but not since about 2021.

The app mostly works fine, but at some point in the last few months, swapping between projectors requires an iPad restart which is wildly inconvenient for college faculty.

Crestron has zero support for current generation Apple hardware. Don’t bother downloading the app. Spend your energy telling your IT department that they need to STOP using Crestron AirMedia and find a different solution.

See the title and save yourself the trouble.

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In the five years of trying out this app for streaming content from my iPad to the TVs in my classroom, I’ve never been happy with the process or result. In this latest iteration, I saw a new logo and a recent update and hoped for the best. No luck connecting to the device in the classroom (perhaps the device was running old software? Shouldn’t keep me from connection though), but my iPad did stop Airplaying to my home TV. I didn’t make the connection right away, but I believe the latest version of the software did something to the network stack on my iPad that broke AirPlay. Before uninstalling, AirPlay to my local TV resulted in a black screen on the TV and non-responsive internet on the iPad. As soon as I uninstalled the software (didn’t even need a restart), Airplay and internet access were restored. Have to say, this doesn’t do anything to encourage confidence in the Crestron brand. Anyone asks me for my opinion on the company or their products, I’m going to have to give a giant thumbs down.

I’ve tried using AirMedia on Iphone, ipad, an MacOS and it does not work, yet my school/work fully integrated Creston into everything so we’re stuck with useless thousands of dollars worth of AV equipment around campus that no one seems to be able to use,