Help out a Crestron newbie please!
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Posted by on June 7, 2006, 8:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options We have a Crestron programmer who has decided to leave the country and now we're stuck. I've got all this Crestron equipment -- touch-screens, wired, wireless, etc., and a lot of programming that's already been done... but it's not finished. Some buttons turn on/off some TVs, change the channels, blah blah etc etc... typical stuff. Now, here's the kicker -- I need to learn this stuff and take over the project. My background is in serious programming. I have a formal CS degree and worked with every language from Assembly to .NET. I'm a very good programmer and engineer, but what I don't know is anything about Crestron programming, and I find very little resources out there. I need to learn this, and learn it quick. I've done lots of automation with digital I/O units and various other serial I/O and what-not, and from the crappy stuff that I see this person created, I can't imagine this is too difficult. My question is -- how to begin? What's the language? Where are the resources? Compilers? A book or two would be nice? Can someone recommend where to begin? He left me with all the "password codes" to the units themselves, which I presume are used to load the software, but what do I use to edit it and define the I/O points, etc? If someone could steer me in the right direction, I would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, guys. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Dave Houston on June 7, 2006, 8:28 pm
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Posted by Marc F Hult on June 7, 2006, 8:41 pm
Please log in for more thread options On 7 Jun 2006 17:12:24 -0700, geekboy0001@yahoo.com wrote in message
>Hi, all! Okay, here's my situation ...
>We have a Crestron programmer who has decided to leave the country and >now we're stuck. I've got all this Crestron equipment -- >touch-screens, wired, wireless, etc., and a lot of programming that's >already been done... but it's not finished. Some buttons turn on/off >some TVs, change the channels, blah blah etc etc... typical stuff. >Now, here's the kicker -- I need to learn this stuff and take over the >project. >My background is in serious programming. I have a formal CS degree and >worked with every language from Assembly to .NET. I'm a very good >programmer and engineer, but what I don't know is anything about >Crestron programming, and I find very little resources out there. I >need to learn this, and learn it quick. I've done lots of automation >with digital I/O units and various other serial I/O and what-not, and >from the crappy stuff that I see this person created, I can't imagine >this is too difficult. >My question is -- how to begin? What's the language? Where are the >resources? Compilers? A book or two would be nice? Can someone >recommend where to begin? He left me with all the "password codes" to >the units themselves, which I presume are used to load the software, >but what do I use to edit it and define the I/O points, etc? If >someone could steer me in the right direction, I would be greatly >appreciated! >Thanks, guys. Philadelphia attorneys working for Crestron once threatened by letter to sue me for using the ECOntrol.org domain. A primary competitor www.AMX.com is now gleefully pointing out that AMX *is* suing "CRESTRON’S EXCLUSIVE MDU PARTNERS [] FOR RACKETEERING AND THEFT OF TRADE SECRETS" http://www.amx.com/newsroom/pressrelease-file.asp?release=2006.05.05.a Crestron's seems to be a mostly closed universe, but there is a Crestron google group with 15 posts since December 2004 in it ;-) http://groups.google.com/group/Crestron-Programming We wish you luck. (What a coincidence! -- no mention of Crestron in this news group for months/years? -- until yesterday and now this post today ?-) ... Marc Marc_F_Hult www.EControl.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert Green on June 7, 2006, 8:56 pm
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> (What a coincidence! -- no mention of Crestron in this news group for
> months/years? -- until yesterday and now this post today ?-) That's probably Google's email notification service at work. They offer to send you emails if they find your search term in the daily Usenet posts. -- Bobby G. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Marc F Hult on June 8, 2006, 12:06 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:56:33 -0400, "Robert Green"
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><stuff snipped> > >> (What a coincidence! -- no mention of Crestron in this news group for
>> months/years? -- until yesterday and now this post today ?-) >
>That's probably Google's email notification service at work. They offer to >send you emails if they find your search term in the daily Usenet posts. Right or simply a Google search. Shows the potential of an expansion of comp.home.automation into comp.home.automation.crestron, comp.home.automation.x10, comp.home.automation.architecture, comp.home.automation.AI etc. ... Marc Marc_F_Hult www.ECONtrol.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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>We have a Crestron programmer who has decided to leave the country and
>now we're stuck. I've got all this Crestron equipment --
>touch-screens, wired, wireless, etc., and a lot of programming that's
>already been done... but it's not finished. Some buttons turn on/off
>some TVs, change the channels, blah blah etc etc... typical stuff.
>Now, here's the kicker -- I need to learn this stuff and take over the
>project.
>My background is in serious programming. I have a formal CS degree and
>worked with every language from Assembly to .NET. I'm a very good
>programmer and engineer, but what I don't know is anything about
>Crestron programming, and I find very little resources out there. I
>need to learn this, and learn it quick. I've done lots of automation
>with digital I/O units and various other serial I/O and what-not, and
>from the crappy stuff that I see this person created, I can't imagine
>this is too difficult.
>My question is -- how to begin? What's the language? Where are the
>resources? Compilers? A book or two would be nice? Can someone
>recommend where to begin? He left me with all the "password codes" to
>the units themselves, which I presume are used to load the software,
>but what do I use to edit it and define the I/O points, etc? If
>someone could steer me in the right direction, I would be greatly
>appreciated!
>Thanks, guys.