Crestron SIMPL Windows Primer

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Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Crestron Control Systems Why Program Control Systems? The term program refers to the instructions loaded into the cont

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows signals, and 2048 user-defined analog/serial signals. The processor also provides 256K of NVRAM that is divided in dif

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Touchpanels Crestron touchpanels are the most common user interface of any control system. Touchpanels are available i

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows direct control of motors and lighting circuits. In addition, relays can either be mechanical or solid-state. If you ar

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software control system to the IR receiver on the controlled device. Care must be taken to ensure that the IR emitter on the IR

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Crestron Database As described earlier, the Crestron Database contains hundreds of pre-coded IR driver files for progr

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Because of the absence of a driver file, RS-232 control is generally considered more difficult to program than IR or c

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows which sometimes find their way into control system applications, use MIDI control. From a programmer’s viewpoint, MIDI

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Software Crestron SIMPL Windows symbols to be connected, but not added or deleted. Device symbols are located in the Device Library of the Configurati

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software For convenience, parameters may be expressed in a variety of formats (all of which are directly related to one another

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows has an analog output, then the signal connected there will by definition become an analog signal. The three signal typ

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Example Signal Colors Some signals are ambiguous, meaning that the signal type is determined by the driving source. F

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Programming with User Interfaces The heart of any well-designed control system is the user-interface. This is the link

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Button Feedback User-interfaces that support 2-way communication (any interface except for 1-way wireless transmitters

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Certain buttons may call for more complex feedback. For example, a volume mute button may alternately turn the mute on

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software appear on top of a standard page at any time and then disappear when no longer needed, similar to a dialog box in Wind

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Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Building a Program with SIMPL Windows Programming Process Identify the equipment that is going to be controlled. Progr

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software • Select user devices made by third-party manufacturers. These are usually the devices being controlled and can inclu

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Control Systems The first step in building a system with SIMPL Windows is to select the control processor. The Device

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Another method is to right-click the control system in the Device Library and choose Add Device to System from the sub

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows If you add a Crestron device to a control card slot, SIMPL Windows will auto-assign the network address, first by the

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Serial Devices Crestron processors control serial devices using physical standards such as RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485.

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows To hide unused slots from the tree view, right-click any item in the tree and select Hide Unused from the submenu. Thi

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software View, as well as in the title bar of the device's symbol. The device name and location will be included in the De

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Device Info: This tab provides "read-only" program information about each device. Ethernet Devices IP Net

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Serial Devices Serial Settings: Set the device's serial protocol according to the manufacturer's specificati

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Serial Signals ...

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows 04. The chained device will share the master device's definition, and it will be displayed in the top System View

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software The button press is the end user’s request for a specific action; therefore, the output signals of the user interface

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Entering Signal Name Using Logic Symbols Programmers will typically use many symbols when programming in SIMPL Window

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Programming with Logic Symbols Introduction In the last chapter we saw how a program could be written simply using dev

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Program Formatting – Symbols that help to organize and arrange program information. Sequencing Operations – Symbols th

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software NOT Symbol Example: Automatic Camera Control Sometimes a device provides the opposite signal than you want. For exampl

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows OR Symbol Example AND Symbol The AND symbol will drive its output signal high whenever all of its inputs are high. Lo

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software use of a current sensing device, we have generated a digital signal that represents whether a VCR is currently turned

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows BUFFER Symbol- High/Low This symbol differs from the other symbols discussed to this point in that not only does it a

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Buffer Example Note from the example that only one Buffer should be enabled at any given time. If two Buffers were en

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Time-based Logic...

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows The nature of the SIMPL language makes it relatively easy to cause multiple events to occur off of a single button pre

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software However there are some drawbacks to this method. First, programs written in this matter can be difficult to read, in t

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Buffer Lights_Scene_1VProj_Power_OffScreen_UpLights_Scene_2VProj_Power_OnScreen_Down1 enablein1in2in3in4in5in6out1out2

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software considered “level triggered” in that the current input values always determine the states of the outputs. Set/Reset La

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Toggle Example: Volume Mute A Toggle symbol provides an easy way to implement a single-button volume mute. Shown is a

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Toggle Example: device power on/off Power_On/OffPower_OffPower_On "PWR ON\r""PWR OFF\r"COM Portset

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Interlock Example: source selection feedback Select_DSSSelect_PC_2Select_PC_1Select_VCRSelect_DVD "IN1\r"&qu

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Interlock Example: multi-device control (part 2) - Each IR Driver symbol represents a different .IR file to control a

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Time-based Logic All of the logic that we have seen up to now is strictly event-driven; when an event (a positive-edge

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software custom control system you would normally want to handle this internally, thus the user can simply tap a button and the

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Retriggerable One Shot Example: automatic power down press115press116press117press118press119press120press121press122p

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software simply passes all input transitions through to the output(s). Thus, you would need some elaborate logic to reset the D

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Oscillator Example: blinking feedback press245press246fb245fb246Touchpaneloutout*setresetSet/Reset Latchtrigresetoutpu

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Analog Logic The last section introduced you to the most basic set of symbols in the SIMPL language. With a good under

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Analog Ramp Example: volume control via CNXVTC-3 press437press438press439press440fb437fb438fb439fb440Touchpanelupdownm

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Analog Initialize – the outputs of the Decade symbol must be connected to additional logic, not shown in the example b

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows used in conjunction with other symbols that require analog signals as inputs (e.g. Analog Sum). In this case you can s

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Analog Preset Example: preset volume levels press1press2press3press4fb1fb2fb3fb4TouchpanelIn_Overrideincandescentincan

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows symbol, it is triggered by any change on the analog or serial signal connected to its "rx$" input. When a ch

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Modules SIMPL Windows provides programmers with a number of Crestron modules as well as a predefined directory to stor

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Overview About this Primer The intent of this primer is to introduce programmers to SIMPL Wind

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Click Communications on the Edit menu and select the connection type: RS-232. Then use the following settings to make

Crestron SIMPL Windows Software For a TCP/IP connection, use Ethernet straight-through cables to connect the PC and control system to the Ethernet net

Software Crestron SIMPL Windows Convert/Compile Operation Information If any errors or warnings are generated during the compile operation, they will

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