I've been traveling for work recently and kicking myself for not bringing an RMC3 along. It's not that I enjoy Crestron programming every waking minute of the day. A lot of times, I try to test programming out before I ship it off to someone as a "fix." As control system programmers, we're in a … Continue reading Programming on the Road
ATEM Mini Pro
Blackmagic Design makes some cool production switchers that are reasonably priced and work great. They even distribute an SDK to control them from Windows or Mac programs. Controlling from Crestron is tougher, but not impossible. Some third-party products have sprung up to make it easier, too. In this post, I'm going to walk through how … Continue reading ATEM Mini Pro
VirtualBox Headless
Collected from the wonderful documentation at https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html. To see which VMs are available, type: $ VBoxManage list vms "dev-site" {2e39d6cc-c307-44f6-b73e-a6f95e0f17b0} To only see running VMs, type: $ VBoxManage list runningvms And to start it: $ VBoxManage startvm "dev-site" --type headless Waiting for VM "dev-site" to power on... VM "dev-site" has been successfully started.
HTML5 Cleanup
The last post took me way too long to write (like an entire month), and I think it's the format of trying to step through every single change, every single time that's slowing me down. We're going to be moving into program sizes where that just isn't going to work. But before we make that … Continue reading HTML5 Cleanup
HTML5 Huddle Room
For our first room type, we're going to program a very simple huddle room. It will focus around a PC-based codec that we won't control directly. These spaces are typically low-cost and plentiful, but only allow 3 or 4 people to use them. Keep It Simple Huddle Room design is easy: keep it simple, keep … Continue reading HTML5 Huddle Room
SIMPL Tricks: 4-series
If you're starting to get into 4-series projects but you don't have actual hardware to test with you can load SIMPL programs targeted for 4-series processors to a 3-series. I'd heard the reverse was true: a 3-series programs should run unmodified on a 4-series. But it looks like for testing purposes, you can also run … Continue reading SIMPL Tricks: 4-series
HTML5 + 4-series
We've already run into a couple things we need to be mindful of when using HTML5 and 4-series processors (see HTML5 XPanel for details about licensing and authentication). In this post, my goal is to break away from 3-series sandboxes and SIMPL Windows, so that means we're moving into the realm of C# and Visual … Continue reading HTML5 + 4-series
HTML5 + JS
In this post, we're going to greatly simplify how we create touchpanel layouts: we're going to ditch the Contract Editor and most of the CH5 components. I do think these tools have value in the right hands, but I want to explore going my own direction. We might reinvent some of their features, but I … Continue reading HTML5 + JS
HTML5 XPanel
At long last, Crestron has an updated XPanel that doesn't rely on Adobe Flash! Unfortunately, there are some issues surrounding it regarding the licensing, but there is a free 60-day trial period that should hopefully get us through this series of posts! Prerequisites First and foremost, you need an actual 3- or 4-series control system … Continue reading HTML5 XPanel
More Office Treasure!
The owner's manual for the office microwave oven has been sitting on top of it for over a year now. I'm very tempted every time I see it sitting there to file it in the round filing cabinet. While I was waiting for my coffee to finish, I thumbed through it to see exactly how … Continue reading More Office Treasure!
Kiel the Coder 