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By: christian@...
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Ashly NE8800. If you are reading this, you're having a bad day. And you've tried other Ashly model modules on this box, and you've had a worse day. Hopefully I've caught you before you started wondering if you should line code this, or do it in Simpl. Well, I made my choice, and had to F1 the concat symbol for the first time in 25 years. It is going great.
I had this box on my desk for three days and couldn't get input volume control to work, nor input mute. Technically, this module "does" control input volume/mute, but only the input mixer that is hidden in the output mixer (?), which are a different set of inputs from the input mixer (?). Which is stupid, and I hate you Ashly. And I also hate you, AV consultant/designer person, for copy/pasting a design from 2005 into a system in 2025.
Copy/paste this and send it to your dealer: This box is great when you are using hard pots for volume control. But it sucks for Crestron. Spoiler alert: The volume command also routes stuff. Same command. Why? I don't know. Don't want that? Go to hell. Want to just route something? Hard no. Want to change the volume without routing? Still no. Could I have made better decisions decades ago to prevent my involvement in this? Can't say.
Anyway, this has drop down "input fader" select (Note that "input fader" is in quotes. You'll see.), and drop down output select. Same commands work RS232 and TCP/IP, but the port Ashly original gave me was the wrong one, and damnit I ain't looking up the right one right now.
Ok, bye.
