Question for Chris or anybody that knows: Does Pyng consider every load on a panelized lighting system a "device", or just the modules? So in other words if you have 2 full panels with 8 full DIM8 modules would it be 16 devices, or 128 devices against the 250 limit?
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Some notes on my PYNG first try.
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I decided to jump into a Pyng system to try and upgrade my system¡ 6 hours in and I feel I am about 50% done.?? There is a fair amount of ¡°devices¡± with 94 showing,
which with a limit of 250 they should be able to get a lot bigger but either I am really slow (good possibility) or the system has some problems.?
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D3 vs Pyng everything is a scene, I realized very rarely do I have a load go on at 100% (typically 80%) or do I only want one load to go on with a button
press. ?The scene creation is on another screen and would have to go to the area then go back to the button you wanted to press
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Doesn¡¯t support multi press / taps ¨C important where we want to do things where 1 tap does X and 2 taps does Y.? ?(Fan control is one use case)
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Status lights on switches act differently.? If you have a switch that top is on and bottom if off both lights maybe on
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Moving from D3 to Pyng is fairly hard if you use panel lighting.? All of the modules show up to learn into the system with the serial number which I
have not have found a printout in the documentation options that actually shows the serial numbers.? If Crestron would add a PYNG documentation template to D3 I think it could have made this step a lot less painful.? Considering it is still necessary to design
a panel in d3 to get the loads correctly and have documentation for the electrician I don¡¯t see how this would ever go away (unless studio does is)
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Adding key pads with panel lighting is just as painful as they show up with serial number but no documentation exists to print.? For both the modules
and keypads I had D3 and Pyng open so I could step through the serial numbers and find them
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Scheduled events are only days of the week and not a calendar.? Currently to do something like putting shades down the sun hit a room I create 2-3 events
that split the year into 3 as using only sunset as a guide does not correct for the sun position so an area may get sun early vs sunset in the summer vs winter.?? I use this often so if there is a better way to solve this problem I would be interested to learn
from others.?
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My overall thoughts are this would be ok for a customer that has never had experience with lighting control as it could be an easy way to get something in but
I would not use it for panel lights and would limit to only a few dozen lighting loads.? I think the scene / load control needs to evolve before I would really want to use often.?? I was really interested in trying to get some of the other components integrated
to see how it performed and get some experience with it before I sold it¡but my environment maybe just too complex and I am going to try and get a friendly user to make a minimal investment to see how it works on a daily basis.
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If I have missed some critical things in my integration that would have made this easier, please share your experiences as I could always try this again (when
I have time again).
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Thanks
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Chris
