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Re: Crestron app - viewing camera remotely

 

Is it possible to remotely playback from hikvision nvr via crestron app? How?


Re: Photoshop Alterntive

 

An old copy of Photoshop CS3 I bought with an education discount years ago ..

I have done some recent one-off quick edits with pixlr.com?

The last time I tried to use GIMP (last year) I found it frustrating because I've become too accustomed to the way Photoshop operates.


Re: Rava SIP

 

You are correct, 5 will be fine!

Stephen D.


Re: Photoshop Alterntive

 

I like GIMP, but if you are used to Photoshop, it can be a significant adjustment. If that's the case, you may want to look at , which skins GIMP to behave more like Photoshop.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Jeremy Weatherford jweather@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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Adobe Fireworks and GIMP, each have their strong points.? If I was starting over I'd probably look at a Photoshop subscription ($10/mo via Creative Cloud) and some tutorials from or similar.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Welker andrew.welker@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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I use Inkscape. It's a freeware vector graphics program that creates .svg files.


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 9:43 PM?Andrew Lloyd lloydmaster@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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Ashamed to say Gimp because it can be such a pain in the ass but for image resize and basic logo stuff it does the job.

Andrew

On Feb 11, 2016 7:46 PM, "dedicatedsystems@... [Crestron]" <Crestron@...> wrote:
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I am curious as to what you guys use to create / tweak images for touch panels.?


?Photoshop? GIMP or somthing else??

There has to be other options.....


Mark




Re: Theme Manager basics

 

+1 for Theme Creator, I wouldn't use anything else.? Bought it because Crestron couldn't handle a font with a space in its name (Franklin Gothic), kept it because it's awesome.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:32 AM, oliver.hall@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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P.P.P.S.
I re-read my last post and want to clarify something.

"... those who simply want to make the odd tweak to Crestron's home-grown themes."

I should point out, I'm not suggesting you?/have/ to use?Theme Creator?if you're doing full theme development, and I know some of the commercial theme devs do their excellent work using Crestron Studio.



Re: Photoshop Alterntive

 

Adobe Fireworks and GIMP, each have their strong points.? If I was starting over I'd probably look at a Photoshop subscription ($10/mo via Creative Cloud) and some tutorials from or similar.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Welker andrew.welker@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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I use Inkscape. It's a freeware vector graphics program that creates .svg files.


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 9:43 PM?Andrew Lloyd lloydmaster@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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Ashamed to say Gimp because it can be such a pain in the ass but for image resize and basic logo stuff it does the job.

Andrew

On Feb 11, 2016 7:46 PM, "dedicatedsystems@... [Crestron]" <Crestron@...> wrote:
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I am curious as to what you guys use to create / tweak images for touch panels.?


?Photoshop? GIMP or somthing else??

There has to be other options.....


Mark



Re: More SX80 fun

 

working with a few sx80s and DMPS3s. Ive been grabbing the phone book every night because of the cpu usage but I tried to load it last night and the dmps would reboot early in the get phone book process.this is happening with 2 of the dmps units. there is 1 dmps that seems to grab it no problem. they all have the same exact code loaded to them and Ive made sure no vu meters are beeing polled. Any ideas???

thanks,
Andrew


Re: New Programmer

 

The programming fundamentals are identical between a 2 series and a 3 series. ?Sure they both have their own quirks and nuances but theres absolutely no reason one cannot learn Crestron programming on a 2 series processor. ?


Re: Crestron app - viewing camera remotely

 

how can I get the remote IP of the HIKvision camera? anyone has experience with this? what's the URL format?

thanks.


Re: Theme Manager basics

 

P.P.P.S.
I re-read my last post and want to clarify something.

"... those who simply want to make the odd tweak to Crestron's home-grown themes."

I should point out, I'm not suggesting you?/have/ to use?Theme Creator?if you're doing full theme development, and I know some of the commercial theme devs do their excellent work using Crestron Studio.


Re: Theme Manager basics

 

Creating a theme means something different depending on whether you're talking about synapse-style (legacy) panels or Smart Graphics projects.? I'd suggest the former would be an exercise in futility ;-)

So, assuming you're talking about Smart Graphics, you don't actually do the "theming" in VTPro at all.? You need to use another tool to create/modify themes.? There are currently two options - use Crestron's Studio application, which includes a "sub-application" called "Theme Editor".? The pros for that are, it's free and the official Crestron tool.? The cons are: It's a monumental download, and a - I would argue (for obvious reasons that will become clear in a moment) - rather cumbersome to use (slow to use, a rather convoluted system of windows/lists/associations).

** WARNING ** If you know what's coming next (a blatant product plug), please change channels now...

The other option is to use (our) Theme Creator product.

The cons here are that it's a commercial product, and?therefore?aimed at dealers/CSPs who are serious about developing custom themes to gain competitive advantage over those who simply want to make the odd tweak to Crestron's home-grown themes.

The pros are, naturally, endless ;-)
It's a very lightweight application (fast to load, responsive UI, negligible download <1Mb I think for the last build)
It has Crestron's blessing (and very helpful support during development) and after 18 months in the field, we're not aware of any incompatibility with the SG environment.
We provide?enhanced font character set support, so you can tune theme size (fonts can add a lot of bloat)
Other "font" benefits... (I'm not going to be specific here)
Import ANY compiled theme, so you only need the original (compiled)?theme to make edits (no need for the large database exports that Studio uses as the intermediate file format)
File-system-based structure - so it works with version control systems (e.g. we use SVN)
Responsive support - we try very hard to provide customer satisfaction!
Did I mention it was quick? ;-)? We've streamlined the theme creation process so it's easy to understand - create a style, add images, assign it to a control, compile, done.
Lots of other features (like the controls style reference, and control optimisation - which checks styles against the actual installed control to remove dead wood/notify you if a style is missing, etc.)

We have a number of tutorial videos if you want to see various features in action:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL6a9XxYyeyqMnlg9lFYz-96JV3HURL5s

I hope that helps, and we'd love to have you join the ever-growing Theme Creator community.

Cheerio,
Oliver (Ultamation - Theme Creator Lead Developer)

P.S. Once you have created/modified and compiled?a theme, you need to reload VTPro to see the theme in the project properties.? You add the theme to the project and either set as the default for pages, or override the selection at the page level.

P.P.S. We suggest?(and I?believe it's the official Crestron line too) not to use multiple themes if you can help it - themes are loaded at project start-up and?every image consumes valuable memory and is loaded?even if it's not used explicitly in a control.??Additional?bitmaps?are also created (in memory)?for any control that uses an image with non-native dimensions - so it can quickly mount up.? i.e. a native 100x100 image, used in a button of 150x50 will create (at least) two bitmaps in memory (though 20 buttons all of 150x50 won't add additional bitmaps).


Re: Crestron app - viewing camera remotely

 

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You need to call video stream at your remote IP. Of course, the IP port of the stream has to be redirected on the router.
Best situation is a router with NAT Loopback function. In this case always use remote IP (or Crestron dyndns name).


D¨¾a 12.2.2016 o 9:17 wes_lim88@... [Crestron] nap¨ªsal(a):

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Hi,


We have a HIKvision NVR and several cameras in our project. We have managed to integrate/ view the cameras via the Crestron App on an iPad locally. However the Crestron App can not view the cameras remotely.


We entered the URL of the camera to the Embedded video.


how can we view the cameras remotely via the Crestron app?


Thanks.



Crestron app - viewing camera remotely

 

Hi,


We have a HIKvision NVR and several cameras in our project. We have managed to integrate/ view the cameras via the Crestron App on an iPad locally. However the Crestron App can not view the cameras remotely.


We entered the URL of the camera to the Embedded video.


how can we view the cameras remotely via the Crestron app?


Thanks.


Re: Prowl For 3 Series

 

I have the same problem, then I downgraded to PUF?mc3_1.012.0017 and the problem still persists.
Could this be related to latest databases then?
:(



Re: Photoshop Alterntive

Andrew Welker
 

I use Inkscape. It's a freeware vector graphics program that creates .svg files.


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 9:43 PM?Andrew Lloyd lloydmaster@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
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Ashamed to say Gimp because it can be such a pain in the ass but for image resize and basic logo stuff it does the job.

Andrew

On Feb 11, 2016 7:46 PM, "dedicatedsystems@... [Crestron]" <Crestron@...> wrote:
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I am curious as to what you guys use to create / tweak images for touch panels.?


?Photoshop? GIMP or somthing else??

There has to be other options.....


Mark


Re: Photoshop Alterntive

 

Ashamed to say Gimp because it can be such a pain in the ass but for image resize and basic logo stuff it does the job.

Andrew

On Feb 11, 2016 7:46 PM, "dedicatedsystems@... [Crestron]" <Crestron@...> wrote:

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I am curious as to what you guys use to create / tweak images for touch panels.?


?Photoshop? GIMP or somthing else??

There has to be other options.....


Mark


Re: Photoshop Alterntive

 

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On Feb 11, 2016, at 8:02 PM, dedicatedsystems@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:

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fireworks isnt available anymore i guess??


Basically been using cracked version of PS for years, and it wont run on windows 10 for me, so figured I would grow up and pay for it.?

But 20$ a month for something I use maybe 4 times a month??

There has to be something out there I can purchase out right...


Re: New Programmer

 

I dont think anyone would be "crazy" to learn on discontinued equipment.? I work on discontinued equipment all the time,? Stuff we havent even finished installing yet is discontinued before its signed off. Its crazy how fast things come out and then are gone. You can always learn the basics on older equipment...Not to mention that if you are in the business, many customers will call looking for work to be done on their discontinued hardware.? I have jobs that i need to start now that still use quickmedia.? Even if the system isnt ethernet, you can learn alot about relays, making IR files, serial control.? very important basics that you will always need in your tool belt.


Re: Photoshop Alterntive

 

fireworks isnt available anymore i guess??

Basically been using cracked version of PS for years, and it wont run on windows 10 for me, so figured I would grow up and pay for it.?

But 20$ a month for something I use maybe 4 times a month??

There has to be something out there I can purchase out right...


Re: Photoshop Alterntive

Joe Vossen
 

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If you have a Mac, try Pixelmator

If on Windows, Fireworks is great

On Feb 11, 2016, at 8:46 PM, dedicatedsystems@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:

I am curious as to what you guys use to create / tweak images for touch panels.?

?Photoshop? GIMP or somthing else??

There has to be other options.....

Mark