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Posted fix for sluggish TSWs

 

Just posted yesterday:


Anybody tried this yet? I don't have any TSWs installed, but I'm curious
to see if this clears up any of the reported issues with rendering time and
transitions.

--
Jeremy Weatherford


Re: Fusion RoomView DeviceUsage Serial Attribute

 

Apparently I didn't follow the rabbit hole deep enough. The required
format is actually:

STRING sDate[10], sTime[8];
sDate = date(3); // 2013/05/02
sDate = left(sDate, 4) + "-" + mid(sDate, 6, 2) + "-" + right(sDate, 2); //
2013-05-02
sTime = time();

makestring (To_RV_Device_Usage$, "USAGE
||%s||%s||TIME||%s||%s||-||%s||-||%s||%s||",
sDate, sTime, Asset_Type$, Asset_Name$, itoa(g_iLastUsedminutes),
sAssetID, sMeetingID);


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jeremy Weatherford <jweather@...>wrote:

I thought you used to be able to just send serial text to that attribute
and have it logged correctly, but apparently not. Digging around the
RoomView demo program (available from the RVSE page, not the Fusion RV
page) seems to indicate that the DeviceUsage$ format is an overengineered
monstrosity:

makestring (To_RV_Device_Usage$,
"USAGE||-||-||TIME||%s||%s||-||%s||-||%s||%s||", // I think I'm in |-|3||
Asset_Type$, Asset_Name$, itoa(g_iLastUsedminutes), sAssetID, sMeetingID);

Fortunately it appears that sAssetID and sMeetingID can be "-", which is
good since I have no idea what I would set them to.

Anybody built a sane version of this module yet that doesn't wake up 12 S+
modules every 10 seconds just to increment a counter?



On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Lincoln King-Cliby <
lincoln@...> wrote:

**


I can't speak for the Device Usage serial, as I've never had occasion to
(or a client request to) use it, but for the ErrorMsg, the required format
is listed in the Help File, namely...

"Sends a formatted error message to RoomView, which displays a different
icon in the Log field depending on the severity of the error. (When the
operator clicks the error icon, a log file displays all logged events for
the selected room.)

The string must be formatted as follows:

<error severity>:<msg>

Where <error severity> is a severity code ranging from 0 to 4, and <msg>
is the error message.

Error codes are defined as follows:

0 = OK
1 = Notice
2 = Warning
3 = Error
4 = Fatal Error

If the error string is not formatted correctly, RoomView assigns a
default severity to the error and logs the entire string.

[...]"

--
Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS
Sr. Systems Architect | Crestron Certified Master Programmer (Silver)
ControlWorks Consulting, LLC
V: 440.449.1100 x1107 | F: 440.449.1106 | I:
Crestron Authorized Independent Programmer



-----Original Message-----
From: Crestron@... [mailto:Crestron@...] On
Behalf Of Rob Beringer
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:28 PM
To: Crestron@...
Subject: [Crestron] Fusion RoomView DeviceUsage Serial Attribute

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to configure various control systems we have to send
information to fusion roomview using the default attributes that are in the
roomview module itself, as well as some custom attributes we have made.
Most seem to be OK, but we can't trigger reports from the 'DeviceUsage'
serial attribute that you can send roomview through the roomview module
(either version 7 or 8).

I was wondering if anyone had made alot of use of this serial string back
to roomview and knew if you have to construct the string in a certain way
for the roomview server to adequatley process it for reports? In a similar
way maybe to how the 'errormessage' serial string has to be constructed in
a certain way?

Any advice or experience you've had would be really great! I'm not sure
if this should work or not!

Cheers!

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Jeremy Weatherford


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Re: Remote Acess by Apple Time Capsule

 

Have you forward the port to your processor in your router.

{Paf}
Le 3 mai 2013 07:06, "jedistoned" <jedistoned@...> a crit :

**


Hi Guys!
We already connect with MC3 via DynDNS, but still can not load the project
on the ipad for use by Econtrol, someone has a tip for us.

Regards

--- In Crestron@..., "jedistoned" <jedistoned@...> wrote:

Dear friends how are you?
I'm needing a little help from you guys, my client is going to travel to
the USA on Saturday, he wants to remotely access your home via the ipad,
but I'm not getting properly set up remote access, create the account
correctly dindnsfuncionando pis Tenos 08 IP cameras he envisions the ipad
anywhere), set up the doors of the Time Capsule (at least imagine that they
were done correctly), but try connectar ipad web I have only the status bar
to load the system and nothing else .
Someone would have a little tutorial or any tips to get to make this
work, I was informed by another developer in Brazil that the Time Capsule
is what might be causing this problem myself, I think this should not be
the reason.
Please help me because I have only today and tomorrow to make it work.

Thanks in advance everyone's attention.

Marino Penteado
Integration Expert


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Re: Modbus TCP

 

Hi,

We are working on this too. DO you still need more information?

Koen

--- In Crestron@..., "ics_crestron" <sergio.caridi@...> wrote:

Hi folks

I'm working on a crestron- modbus TCP integration, does anyone have a sample prj or usefull documentation?

thanks in advance

Sergio


Re: OT: NYC ideas

Joseph Vossen
 

I'm always amazed at some of the roads that go up the mountains in the Alps and Pyrenees; the way the switch backs are cut into the mountain due to the steepness is a marvel

On May 2, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Heath Volmer wrote:

Unfortunately, there's bad history associated with much of history, but don't let that take away from the accomplishment. It was a different world. The ambitiousness of the guys that conceived of and the sacrifice of the guys who built those railroads is something that's rare or gone in today's world. Quite the accomplishment on so many levels.

On May 2, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Neil Dorin <neildorin@...> wrote:

Exactly.

It really made me appreciate the significance of the effort to build the
railroad across the Rockies. It's too bad there's so much bad history
associated with it (in Canada anyway) regarding all the Chinese sent in
with explosives to blast tunnels through the mountains....


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Heath Volmer <hvolmer@...> wrote:

**

We used to have a "ski train" that went from Denver west into the
mountains. I got to ride that with the wife several years ago. Its amazing
how much more scenic the world is when not surrounded by multi-lane
highways and thousands of cars. You also get to see places that you don't
see from the car.
[snip]


Re: ModbusTCP help.

 

Hi,

We are also working on a RTU to TCP conversion.

In the second modbus file, one symbol is incomplete. We are contacting the person who posted this module for more information.

Let's keep in touch!

Koen

--- In Crestron@..., "kabza" <kabzaa@...> wrote:

I found modbusTCP module in files section, but i cant get feedback from
modbus system. I think the module is not complete. Someone can send me any
example program?



Regards



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HVAC logic

 

Has anyone ever used this macro:


Our experience?
Are there other alternatives?

Thanks

Istvan


Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

bernie.kattner
 

Thanks Everyone...

The site is out of state so we're making arrangements to fly in to go on-site. In the meantime the system is being controlled via 232.


Re: Remote Acess by Apple Time Capsule

 

Hi Guys!
We already connect with MC3 via DynDNS, but still can not load the project on the ipad for use by Econtrol, someone has a tip for us.

Regards

--- In Crestron@..., "jedistoned" <jedistoned@...> wrote:

Dear friends how are you?
I'm needing a little help from you guys, my client is going to travel to the USA on Saturday, he wants to remotely access your home via the ipad, but I'm not getting properly set up remote access, create the account correctly dindnsfuncionando pis Tenos 08 IP cameras he envisions the ipad anywhere), set up the doors of the Time Capsule (at least imagine that they were done correctly), but try connectar ipad web I have only the status bar to load the system and nothing else .
Someone would have a little tutorial or any tips to get to make this work, I was informed by another developer in Brazil that the Time Capsule is what might be causing this problem myself, I think this should not be the reason.
Please help me because I have only today and tomorrow to make it work.

Thanks in advance everyone's attention.

Marino Penteado
Integration Expert


Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

 

If you are controlling it via LAN I have seen the Telnet setting get changed after a firmware upgrade.
Check the retentive setting for the control type you are using.
Lots of them to go through :)
If the site is using TMS then get them to push the setting again as have seen this fix problems as well.

Regards

Adam

--- In Crestron@..., Neil Dorin <neildorin@...> wrote:

Are you controlling via RS-232 or TCP?

Often the login credentials get reset after a Cisco firmware upgrade.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, bernie.kattner
<bernie.kattner@...>wrote:

**


I have Crestron DM system we installed for a customer which controls a
Cisco C60 codec. Everything has been working fine until the customer
decided to upgrade the C60 firmware (not suppose to without us) and now
they have lost all control over the codec (nothing). Everything else in the
system works fine and the codec can be controlled with the Cisco remote.

I've done the all the standard troubleshooting to include:
- revert to the old firmware
- reset the C60
- reset the entire system
- checked power
- checked all connections

Nothing seems to work...

1. Has anyone ever experienced this issue and if so what did you do to
correct it?

2. Anyone have any other suggestions?



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Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

 

Should we take odds? ;)
On 2013-05-02, at 8:36 PM, "Chip" <cfm@...> wrote:


Yeah, that's a "hook up and fire up debugger" type deal - see what the codec is saying back to the control system. I'm going with Neil on the username/password being different than it was before the up/downgrade...

- Chip

--- In Crestron@..., Neil Dorin <neildorin@...> wrote:

Are you controlling via RS-232 or TCP?

Often the login credentials get reset after a Cisco firmware upgrade.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, bernie.kattner
<bernie.kattner@...>wrote:

**


I have Crestron DM system we installed for a customer which controls a
Cisco C60 codec. Everything has been working fine until the customer
decided to upgrade the C60 firmware (not suppose to without us) and now
they have lost all control over the codec (nothing). Everything else in the
system works fine and the codec can be controlled with the Cisco remote.

I've done the all the standard troubleshooting to include:
- revert to the old firmware
- reset the C60
- reset the entire system
- checked power
- checked all connections

Nothing seems to work...

1. Has anyone ever experienced this issue and if so what did you do to
correct it?

2. Anyone have any other suggestions?



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

 

Or, also authentication on the serial port was disabled and now is enabled could be the problem as well...

--
Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS
Sr. Systems Architect | Crestron Certified Master Programmer (Silver)
ControlWorks Consulting, LLC
Crestron Services Provider

-----Original Message-----
From: Crestron@... [mailto:Crestron@...] On Behalf Of Chip
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:37 PM
To: Crestron@...
Subject: [Crestron] Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade


Yeah, that's a "hook up and fire up debugger" type deal - see what the codec is saying back to the control system. I'm going with Neil on the username/password being different than it was before the up/downgrade...

- Chip


--- In Crestron@..., Neil Dorin <neildorin@...> wrote:

Are you controlling via RS-232 or TCP?

Often the login credentials get reset after a Cisco firmware upgrade.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, bernie.kattner
<bernie.kattner@...>wrote:

**


I have Crestron DM system we installed for a customer which controls a
Cisco C60 codec. Everything has been working fine until the customer
decided to upgrade the C60 firmware (not suppose to without us) and now
they have lost all control over the codec (nothing). Everything else in the
system works fine and the codec can be controlled with the Cisco remote.

I've done the all the standard troubleshooting to include:
- revert to the old firmware
- reset the C60
- reset the entire system
- checked power
- checked all connections

Nothing seems to work...

1. Has anyone ever experienced this issue and if so what did you do to
correct it?

2. Anyone have any other suggestions?



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Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

Chip
 

Yeah, that's a "hook up and fire up debugger" type deal - see what the codec is saying back to the control system. I'm going with Neil on the username/password being different than it was before the up/downgrade...

- Chip

--- In Crestron@..., Neil Dorin <neildorin@...> wrote:

Are you controlling via RS-232 or TCP?

Often the login credentials get reset after a Cisco firmware upgrade.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, bernie.kattner
<bernie.kattner@...>wrote:

**


I have Crestron DM system we installed for a customer which controls a
Cisco C60 codec. Everything has been working fine until the customer
decided to upgrade the C60 firmware (not suppose to without us) and now
they have lost all control over the codec (nothing). Everything else in the
system works fine and the codec can be controlled with the Cisco remote.

I've done the all the standard troubleshooting to include:
- revert to the old firmware
- reset the C60
- reset the entire system
- checked power
- checked all connections

Nothing seems to work...

1. Has anyone ever experienced this issue and if so what did you do to
correct it?

2. Anyone have any other suggestions?





Re: Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

 

Are you controlling via RS-232 or TCP?

Often the login credentials get reset after a Cisco firmware upgrade.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, bernie.kattner
<bernie.kattner@...>wrote:

**


I have Crestron DM system we installed for a customer which controls a
Cisco C60 codec. Everything has been working fine until the customer
decided to upgrade the C60 firmware (not suppose to without us) and now
they have lost all control over the codec (nothing). Everything else in the
system works fine and the codec can be controlled with the Cisco remote.

I've done the all the standard troubleshooting to include:
- revert to the old firmware
- reset the C60
- reset the entire system
- checked power
- checked all connections

Nothing seems to work...

1. Has anyone ever experienced this issue and if so what did you do to
correct it?

2. Anyone have any other suggestions?



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


Control Loss After Cisco Firmware Upgrade

bernie.kattner
 

I have Crestron DM system we installed for a customer which controls a Cisco C60 codec. Everything has been working fine until the customer decided to upgrade the C60 firmware (not suppose to without us) and now they have lost all control over the codec (nothing). Everything else in the system works fine and the codec can be controlled with the Cisco remote.

I've done the all the standard troubleshooting to include:
- revert to the old firmware
- reset the C60
- reset the entire system
- checked power
- checked all connections

Nothing seems to work...

1. Has anyone ever experienced this issue and if so what did you do to correct it?

2. Anyone have any other suggestions?


Re: OT: NYC ideas

 

Oooh, I like that idea. It's not going to happen this trip (not enough time before my next out-of-town project) but who knows -- hopefully I'll be back in this corner of the world again; I really like what I've seen of Vancouver/Whistler so far.

Lincoln

--
Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS
Sr. Systems Architect | Crestron Certified Master Programmer (Silver)
ControlWorks Consulting, LLC
Crestron Services Provider

-----Original Message-----
From: Crestron@... [mailto:Crestron@...] On Behalf Of Joseph K. Vossen
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:12 AM
To: Crestron@...
Subject: RE: [Crestron] OT: NYC ideas

Instead of flying home from Vancouver, take the train across the Canadian Rockies. The scenery gets boring after the mountains so I would get off somewhere in the middle and rent a car for the drive home.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lincoln King-Cliby <lincoln@...>
Sent: May 2, 2013 10:42 AM
To: "'Crestron@...'" <Crestron@...>
Subject: RE: [Crestron] OT: NYC ideas

Burger Joint in Le Parker Meridian across from Carnegie Hall is a decent burger-to-$ ratio and an odd contrast from the fairly elegant hotel lobby.

For theater (re), I usually wander by the TKTS booth in Times Square and just pick a title at random off the board if I'm so inclined.

The Highline park in (IIRC) the Meatpacking District is a cool urban park.

Beyond that "Get a [unlimited ride] MetroCard and wander around the city stopping at anything that looks interesting" is my typical modus operanda for larger cities, especially NYC. [Ok, so I really love Cleveland and don't see myself moving anytime soon, but Manhattan is my "If I could afford to love there..." city]

Speaking of travel... I'm wrapping up my last few days of my first visit to Vancouver (both the city and Canada) -- anything I should be sure not to miss if I happen to create any free time?
[snip]




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Re: Crappy protocols

rickmcneely
 

I wish! It's an AMX job. They have modules for it, but a firmware change on the RackLink broke that too. Another reason to dislike it.

--- In Crestron@..., "Chip" <cfm@...> wrote:


Have you tried the I2P module to see if it might save you some headaches? Some of 'em work, y'know? :)

- Chip


Re: Crappy protocols

 

Slackers, 20 years later and the laziness continues!

--- In Crestron@..., "matt_rasmussen_2000" <mjrtoo@...> wrote:

You're complaining about fixed length delimited strings? How lazy are we getting! :)

--- In Crestron@..., Seth Olle <seth@> wrote:

I heard once in 1976 they hired Tim(name made up) to do all the protocols for pretty much everyone.
Then never changed them again, when checksums and all that other stupid stuff was necessary.
I like simple POWERON for example. Makes sense.

It seems to be less and less, I can remember back in the day, all the time doing complex string parsing, for huge hex strings.
Not so much anymore.

From: rickmcneely <rickmcneely@<mailto:rickmcneely@>>
Reply-To: "Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>" <Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>>
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 2:22 PM
To: "Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>" <Crestron@...<mailto:Crestron@...>>
Subject: [Crestron] Crappy protocols



Has anyone else been forced to work with the new Middle Atlantic RackLink systems? Where do people come up with these bizarre protocols?

1. Protocol is all hex.
2. You have to generate checksums on serial and over IP.
4. When connected via serial, the device will ping you and if you don't respond it will quit accepting commands.

They've got enough processing horsepower to run a webserver on the device, so I'm sure they could do better than a protocol from 1976.


Re: Creating Epson serial module for Powerlite G5450

Chip
 

So power is the *only* thing you're polling when it is off? And the response to the power poll is an ERR *and* the response you expect?

- Chip

--- In Crestron@..., "chuckperkinscrestron" <chuckperkinscrestron@...> wrote:


1. When the projector is "Off", I get a ERR&#92;x0D when polling the projector, I will get the PWR=04&#92;x0D also, that shows that it's off.


Re: Crappy protocols

Chip
 

Have you tried the I2P module to see if it might save you some headaches? Some of 'em work, y'know? :)

- Chip

--- In Crestron@..., "rickmcneely" <rickmcneely@...> wrote:

Has anyone else been forced to work with the new Middle Atlantic RackLink systems? Where do people come up with these bizarre protocols?

1. Protocol is all hex.
2. You have to generate checksums on serial and over IP.
4. When connected via serial, the device will ping you and if you don't respond it will quit accepting commands.

They've got enough processing horsepower to run a webserver on the device, so I'm sure they could do better than a protocol from 1976.