I've been working on my Gold Exam and a good chunk of it is written in SIMPL#. It's been a good reminder that getting code in SIMPL# to play nicely with SIMPL logic can sometimes turn into a chore. We have SIMPL+ to thank for most of the hair-pulling. I thought a post about delegates … Continue reading SIMPL+ and Delegates
I've started my Crestron Gold Exam thinking the end of the year is likely to slow down. Ha! My workload has remained pretty high for the last few months, not leaving much time to work on this blog. I am still working on new posts, just not getting enough time to finish any of them. … Continue reading Gold Exam
You can grab this short example from my GitHub repository at https://github.com/kielthecoder/Full-Crestron-Examples. This was the class project / final exam for the Intermediate Crestron Programming class (that turned into P201). Getting Started Create a new .NET Framework 4.7 project, add the Crestron NuGet packages, then slim everything down to the bare essentials. I get everything … Continue reading P201 Projector Exam
Originally, I planned to write a post about everything I learned at Crestron Masters this year. In prior years, I wrote everything down that I could and would bring it back to our team of programmers to share. I don't know how much they cared (my notes work well for me but usually not anyone … Continue reading Lessons from Masters
I'm getting excited for next week: Crestron Masters is happening in Orlando, FL. Classes are a little different this year. I'm basically taking Test-Driven Development one day and Immersive HTML5 the next. Then the last day is a bunch of panel discussions. I'm sure it will be worth the trip! Anything is better than sitting … Continue reading Crestron Masters 2022
I just finished watching all the videos for the C# for Crestron - Crestron Drivers online course and feel like I absorbed very little of it. The driver abstraction seems overly complicated, and the overall presentation of their videos is very dull. I like to contrast them with Q-SYS videos which are short and focused … Continue reading Crestron Drivers
When I started Crestron programming in 2010, you had to take two classes. One covered almost the entire Crestron catalog. All I can remember is my eyes glazing over after a couple days of that. We might have built a touchpanel layout, too. The second class actually got into SIMPL programming, but we only covered … Continue reading SIMPL Crosspoints Best Practices
I was recently asked if we could get a customer with an old PRO2 upgraded to VC4, probably to support new hardware they wanted to install. Looking at the existing system, there were a couple devices that needed a hardware controller: DSP and lighting control over RS-232, cable TV control over IR, and a Cresnet … Continue reading VC4 and SIMPL
It's been over a year since my last installment in this series, so I thought it was a good time to reflect on where things are and where they seem to be going. I completely missed the mark on touchless control! But I think the need to diversify our skills as AV programmers is more … Continue reading The Future of AV Programming: Part 6
In this post, I'm going to explore the different threading options on 3- and 4-series processors. I find it difficult to keep everything straight when working in different Crestron environments, so hopefully this post will be a good refresher when I need it. What are threads? Threads are an execution path through your program. See … Continue reading Multithreaded Programming
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