Inside Eli Manning’s Automated Condo

A Crestron home control system helps the Super Bowl MVP manage all aspects of his home entertainment system.



In Eli Manning’s day job as quarterback for the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, control is an elusive thing. He calls the plays, but blocks can be missed, handoffs can be muffed and 300-pound linemen can disrupt his plans.

Being at home is a much more accommodating experience for the Super Bowl MVP. He and wife Abby have complete control over all their home electronics systems—the motorized shades, the lighting schemes, the multiroom audio, even the stealth motorized pillar that unveils the top-shelf bar selections—at the press of a button.

Total home control, or automation, was Eli’s overwhelming priority when the Mannings recently gutted and renovated their 3,000-square-foot Hoboken, NJ, condo, with spectacular views of Manhattan.

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When was this project done? Use of the TPS-2000 and STX-1700 vs. a TPMC-8 doesnt seem like a good fit for the system.

I love this part..

The control system’s intuitiveness isn’t available out of the box; it takes programming and consultation.

This is absolutely the most important thing to get across to the client. Some Crestron systems are awful and some are perfect. Its the same hardware. The real difference is the CI firm that installs it. If your dealing with a company that has no vision, imagination or enthusiasm your in for a big fat let down at the end of the project.

If you call me on the other hand.. get ready for the wildest ride of your life. By wildest ride i mean a very cool system. :) Before you pick up the phone make sure your doctor gives you a clean bill of help. My skills have been known to stop and or start hearts from time to time :). Yeah, im off today and bored.

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Where the heck is the Kaleidescape system?