I passed the Gold Exam! Once I get the official badge from Crestron, I'll post it all over my online presence. In accordance with testing protocols, I can't share anything particular about this exam, but I thought this would be a good chance to reflect on my experience taking the test. Compared to the Silver … Continue reading Solid GOLD
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
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
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
When I started programming Crestron systems, there were two other programmers on my team. One was a senior programmer who had been doing it for years already; the other was a junior programmer who had been doing it for a year maybe? I feel like I fit into the middle slot between them quite nicely. … Continue reading SIMPL Module Best Practices
I recently received an email asking if I could document some of the things I wished I had known when I started Crestron programming. I didn't touch Crestron until the twilight years of the 2-series (2010), but it was thankfully a solid platform to learn SIMPL Windows on. I had several years of AMX under … Continue reading SIMPL Best Practices
This post is going to be the last one covering CWS (for now). We've created an API that lets us view the current system settings, now we just need a way to update them. In this part, I'll go over how to take in and apply new settings. Some Utilities To make our lives easier, … Continue reading CWS: Part 4
Today I was asked if it is possible to recover a VTZ (compiled touchpanel layout) from a physical panel and use it on a replacement panel. In this particular case, they want to take the layout off a TST-902 panel and use it on a new TSW-760 that is being installed. The client doesn't have … Continue reading Short Take: Recover a VTZ
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