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PC Control via Crestron

R M
 

I am using a PRO3 processor and I need it to control a PC (Windows Embedded)

The PC has a Serial port, but no API.
Is there software I can load to get the PC to talk to the PRO3 via serial?

Also, Is there a keyboard/mouse emulator to act like a TCP/IP client?

The Emulator would need to allow TCP packets to a port listener.

Maybe a SIMPL module already exists to to this?

I appreciate your help!!
 


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:12 PM, R M rojabuma@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:

> The PC has a Serial port, but no API.
> Is there software I can load to get the PC to talk to the PRO3 via serial?
>
> Also, Is there a keyboard/mouse emulator to act like a TCP/IP client?
>
> The Emulator would need to allow TCP packets to a port listener.
>
> Maybe a SIMPL module already exists to to this?

We've had good luck with using the Crestron RS232 to USB cable to get our CP3's to control presentations on our conference room PCs. If keyboard commands are known, that might work for you.

For direct RS232 comm port control of specific programs such as MediaMatrix, Extron Quantum Elite, etc, we've used the Digi One SP Ethernet to Serial converters, which might be more suited to your needs. Our CP3s would talk to it as an Ethernet device and would relay serial commands to our various audio and video control server programs.

We didn't really care for the Crestron TCP module so our SW programmer wrote his own.

Hope this helps,
Jeff


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Jeff Klein, DMC- E
Audio Visual Project Manager
Dept of Defense
Washington D.C. District

?"Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5
 


On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:20 AM, FBC Tech Team <sound@...> wrote:
We didn't really care for the Crestron TCP module so our SW programmer wrote his own.

I spoke to our SW eng and he added some more info on my comment above:

"The main reason we did our own TCP Client was that the CRESTRON one would not handle strings longer than 255 characters. We needed to pass longer ones to the SVSi decoders for IR (pronto code) control of the Stingray boxes.?Up to that point we had been using the CRESTRON modules.?However, I like to know what a module is doing so writing your own is a plus in my book."

Hope that helps,
Jeff

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Jeff Klein, DMC- E
Audio Visual Project Manager
Dept of Defense
Washington D.C. District

?"Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5
 

I have been using MCE controller for a long time, and it works great to send keyboard commands through. Does other things as well.

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Hi Jeff,

Thank you for your recommendation. Would you be able to share the custom TCP module??
If possible, I'd appreciate the support!

Best,

~Robert
 


On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:51 PM, rojabuma@... [Crestron] <Crestron@...> wrote:
Thank you for your recommendation. Would you be able to share the custom TCP module??
If possible, I'd appreciate the support!

I'll have to ask my SW eng...not sure if it's on an accessible system, though...

Jeff

-------------------------------------
Jeff Klein, DMC- E
Audio Visual Project Manager
Dept of Defense
Washington D.C. District

?"Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5
 

You can use ssh and powershell to accomplish all this and plenty more

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