Practical Houston AV guides built around real problems we see in the field: broken Control4 systems, Crestron support, Savant scenes, home network failures, lighting control, motorized shades, whole-home audio, distributed video, and inherited smart home systems.
Practical guides for understanding AV and smart-home problems.
These guides answer the questions clients usually have before they call: what failed, why it matters, what can be repaired, and when an upgrade makes sense.
Smart home and AV repair guides.
Built to help you decide what to fix next.
The most useful questions are usually specific: an app stops responding, an audio zone disappears, a scene fails, a television lands on the wrong input, a shade stops moving, Wi-Fi becomes unreliable, or an inherited rack no longer makes sense. Those symptoms are where good troubleshooting begins.
Why Control4 stops responding, why Crestron touch panels go offline, why Savant scenes fail, why audio zones disappear, why TVs switch to the wrong input, and why home network problems break smart homes.
Custom driver store for Control4 and Crestron integration work.
Obsidian AV also builds driver and module tools for AV pros, including projector control, rack power monitoring, garage integration, announcement logic, and scene utilities.
Our integration tools include Control4 drivers, Crestron modules, BenQ projector control, APC power monitoring, RATGDO garage integration and custom AV utilities.