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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

·???????? Doesn’t support multi press / taps – important where we want to do things where 1 tap does X and 2 taps does Y.? ?(Fan control is one use case)

·???????? Status lights on switches act differently.? If you have a switch that top is on and bottom if off both lights maybe on

·???????? 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)

·???????? 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

·???????? 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. L?

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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