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
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
The FIFO Queue is a handy symbol in SIMPL Windows. It's not one I use regularly though, so I'm always a little confused by its operation. FIFO stands for "First In, First Out." As you add elements to the queue, they are removed in the order they were added. Here's the demo program I'm going … Continue reading FIFO Queue
Here is the final part to this module: wrapping it up and making it easy to use. SIMPL Windows is a powerful tool because it easily abstracts away a lot of details about how things happen. The way our phonebook works under the hood will be a detail we needn't worry about, it will just … Continue reading Soup-to-Nuts: Phonebook Module (Part 4)
SIMPL is an amazing tool to build control system logic with, but it can bite you sometimes in the way it evaluates a solution. Let me be clear: SIMPL is doing the right thing, but we have to train our brain to think around it to get the result we want. Here's a simple example … Continue reading SIMPL Tips and Tricks: Logic Wave Delay
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