Re: PAC 2 third party integration
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On 2 Aug 2023, at 12:01, Corbin Lovering <Corbin.Lovering@...> wrote:
?Hello all,?
We have a takeover job where the owner went to prison for laundering and this new customer is doing a complete makeover except for the lighting panels and so forth. We are getting new crestron keypads though.
My question is that were are going to be using an RTI control system, and they have an existing working PAC2. Is there any way we can control the PAC2 with rs-232 and how would be go about doing that? Were barley getting familiar with Crestron products.
If it is not possible would another solution be to add a crestron processor to be the middleman for communication?
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PAC 2 third party integration
Hello all,?
We have a takeover job where the owner went to prison for laundering and this new customer is doing a complete makeover except for the lighting panels and so forth. We are getting new crestron keypads though.
My question is that were are going to be using an RTI control system, and they have an existing working PAC2. Is there any way we can control the PAC2 with rs-232 and how would be go about doing that? Were barley getting familiar with Crestron products.
If it is not possible would another solution be to add a crestron processor to be the middleman for communication?
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Re: OT: Verizon Wireless Service
We are in a remote rural mountain area and I installed a Samsung VZ femtocell many years ago. All phones show 5 bars. It is hooked into our Internet which is a radio tower about 13 miles away.
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Re: OT: Verizon Wireless Service
I might add that even though I have good WiFi signal and a crappy cell signal and I have my phone set to prefer WiFi calling, it will try to use the crappy cell signal instead of WiFi --? Both for WiFi calling and for Internet browsing.? In those cases, I have to turn on airplane mode and then re-enable WiFi.? I noticed this both with my Android home and with? clients' iPhones.? That use to not be the case but now that is what I have to do.? One step forward and two steps back with newer technologies.? Particular annoying when clients try to do a speed test and think their WiFi speed is bad.
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Re: OT: Verizon Wireless Service
I have had that issue happen to me several times.? Cell companies are constantly upgrading their networks with new technologies and removing old equipment.? First it was when they discontinued 3G, then it was CDMA (Used by Verizon and Sprint for voice calls), and now the push it to get everyone over to 5G from LTE. 3G and CDMA is pretty much gone now.? I think they are now reallocating frequency bands used for LTE over to 5G. So while some of the older services still work, their frequency bands are are slowly being reduced.
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Re: Send Email: Series 3: How in holy Hell?!?!
I believe I followed all the instructions, including changing the include path in the SIMPL+ module, but I will go through them again to see if I missed something. Thank you!
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OT: Verizon Wireless Service
Hi All,
I've been a Verizon Wireless user for 20-25 years in New England and always loved its Great coverage and reliability.
For the last 4-6 months things seem to have gone south, even sometimes with WiFi calling.
I wanted to see if its was just me/our area, or if other Verizon users have been experiencing a recent degradation in performance...
TIA!
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Re: Cisco Room Module - MS Teams URL Serial Too Long for SIMPL Windows
Is this a limitation in the module or with an MSP tied to the serial output? I'm pretty sure simpl windows can handle up to 1024 character string now. if it goes above that then you still have the same issue.
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Not Crestron - Need Windows USB driver for Revolabs Executive Elite MIC controller.
I just couldn't think of a better group to ask.? Looking for a link that I can download a USB driver or a forum that might cover this.? It is a confrerence room system I have, but because of issues with the AVIA 1280 and audio over usb connection they moved it to the windows computer in the system.? It had been working fine for 2 years until the pc updated to windows 11.? Now I had them restore back to windows 10 but it still doesn't recognize the controller.? If someone can point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated.
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Re: Cisco Room Module - MS Teams URL Serial Too Long for SIMPL Windows
This is just one of the many reasons we have moved away from using Crestron control panels to control Cisco Room Kits. We have found it much much easier and "future proof" if we simply add whatever outside controls we need to the Cisco Touch 10 / Navigator panel. Its just become to much to try and keep up with the constant changes / additions they keep making to the Cisco API to go along with the limitations of the current control modules.
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Re: Send myself a text when....
This is good to know. I am not entirely sure why, in the 21st century, we still have to be kludgey when it comes to emails and Crestron.
Mystery of the universe I suppose...
Thanks.
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On Aug 1, 2023, at 10:57?AM, Tony Golden <mrgolden@...> wrote:
?I still use smtp2go and it works very well.
--- On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 10:35 AM, Jay Basen wrote:
Thanks Michael,
I used smtp2go years ago but couldn't remember the name of the service when I
was writing my own reply to this post.
Jay
On 7/31/2023 11:35 PM, Michael Block wrote:
If I recall correctly, you should be able to use the Send Email (cm) module to
send an email to smtp2go.com (free account for up to 1000 emails/day) which can
forward to your cell phone provider's text gateway. See this
article for a list. This should work
on any processor 2-series on up. It's a tad kludgey, but not terrible.
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Re: Send myself a text when....
I still use smtp2go and it works very well.
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--- On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 10:35 AM, Jay Basen wrote:
Thanks Michael,
I used smtp2go years ago but couldn't remember the name of the service when I
was writing my own reply to this post.
Jay
On 7/31/2023 11:35 PM, Michael Block wrote:
If I recall correctly, you should be able to use the Send Email (cm) module to
send an email to smtp2go.com (free account for up to 1000 emails/day) which can
forward to your cell phone provider's text gateway. See this
article for a list. This should work
on any processor 2-series on up. It's a tad kludgey, but not terrible.
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Re: Send myself a text when....
Thanks Michael,
I used smtp2go years ago but couldn't remember the name of the
service when I was writing my own reply to this post.
Jay
On 7/31/2023 11:35 PM, Michael Block
wrote:
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If I recall correctly, you should be able to use the Send Email
(cm) module to send an email to smtp2go.com (free account for up
to 1000 emails/day) which can forward to your cell phone
provider's text gateway. ?See this article??for
a list. ?This should work on any processor 2-series on up. ?It's a
tad kludgey, but not terrible.
HTH,
Michael
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Re: Duplicate IP-IDs on same network with different systems
Yea we did this type of thing as a redundancy solution and It was slightly quirky at first but in the end it seemed to work pretty well. Not sure if thats the solution you are working towards here, but the multiple processor/ID part of it did work for us.?
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Re: Duplicate IP-IDs on same network with different systems
Thanks, Guys!
That's what I thought but wanted to get some confirmation!!
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Re: Duplicate IP-IDs on same network with different systems
The CIP/SCIP connection is initiated by the secondary device to the primary device. When you give a TSW an IP ID of 91 and point it to the IP address, hostname, or FQDN of the primary device, it doesn't matter what else is on the network with the same IP ID, it matters that the primary device's network status is up and it has a populated IP table and programming to establish what gets communicated between the devices.
The only time this is an issue, using your example, is if you were to have one processor, therefore one IP/hostname/FQDN, running multiple programs and multiple secondary devices (TSW's) trying to connect using the same IP ID. An IP ID can only be used once per primary device, not once per program, with the exception being things like EISC.
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Re: Send myself a text when....
If I recall correctly, you should be able to use the Send Email (cm) module to send an email to smtp2go.com (free account for up to 1000 emails/day) which can forward to your cell phone provider's text gateway. ?See this article??for a list. ?This should work on any processor 2-series on up. ?It's a tad kludgey, but not terrible.
HTH,
Michael
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Re: Duplicate IP-IDs on same network with different systems
It should work fine, there is no Auto discovery to muck it up, just configure each TP with its respective processors IPID
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Re: Duplicate IP-IDs on same network with different systems
Mmm, the ip table relates to the ipaddress and ipid, so I might think that no issues would occur, but maybe someone has a different point of view.
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On 31 Jul 2023, at 17:14, ckangis <chris@...> wrote:
?Hi All,
This is probably a dumb question but I can't test it with the equipment I have on hand at the moment...
This is not something that I usually do in my work, but I have a project where I will potentially have three similar systems on the same network (Let's say for the discussion that it is a FLAT network, just to prove the concept.)
I would like to have one primary program with the TSWs having a single IP-ID (ex: 91)
Each of the three TSWs IPTable settings would be pointing to three different processors.
If I had all three TSW IP-IDs at 91 but each pointing to a different IP address for each processor, would this create an issue for the Crestron gear??
I can see both sides of the story...
Obviously I could do a save as and change the IP-IDs for each system, but I wanted to see if this really would be necessary...
TIA!
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PD
Michael Block