Like most mornings, I started today by reading through the Crestron Groups.io daily digest. It's the spiritual successor to the old Yahoo message group. Reading through those posts really helped me out when I first started programming Crestron in SIMPL. I was already familiar with control systems (I'd been immersed in AMX for a couple … Continue reading Community Support
Month: April 2021
VC-4: Websocket-Sharp
The first version of my web console bastardized the Control Concepts module. Since we're targeting the VC-4, we have unrestricted access to standard libraries that fall outside the Crestron sandbox. In this part, I'll swap out WebsocketServer.dll for a NuGet package containing a WebsocketServer class instead. The Back-end First, we need to manage the packages … Continue reading VC-4: Websocket-Sharp
VC-4: Websockets
This post picks up right where the last one left off. I got VC-4 running on an RHEL instance, but now we're back to some of the challenges that VC-4 brings... like printing to a console window. Better Logging Control Concepts has an excellent Websocket Server demo available on the Application Market. If you open … Continue reading VC-4: Websockets
VC-4: RHEL 8
The last time I wrote about VC-4, it was still based on Ubuntu 16.04. Crestron released an update around December 2020 that switched to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. I cut my teeth on Red Hat Linux 5, and once we had faster DSL Internet at home, I tried out a number of other … Continue reading VC-4: RHEL 8
Merging .pacnew Files
I have a couple Linodes running. My mail server is powered by Arch Linux, and I always forget to check if new configuration updates need to be applied. I'm not a professional IT admin, so when things are working, I tend to leave well enough alone. A quick way to locate configuration updates that were … Continue reading Merging .pacnew Files
Does CH5 Need Webpack?
In the last post, I messed around with Webpack a little. Webpack is a tool that solves an inherent problem in JavaScript: modularity. Web developers have had to deal with finding ways to create large, complex applications using a language designed for quick, simple scripting. In this post, I want to look at what Webpack … Continue reading Does CH5 Need Webpack?
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