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| Topic: | Amx Training This thread has 6 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday July 14, 2007 at 15:48 |
cheesehead22 Long Time Member |
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I know this isnt about RTI but I was wondering if anyone else here is AMX Certified. I am going down to Calii this coming week to start my training. As much as I am excited, I have to say I am a little intimedated. Crestron and AMX are the big boys and now I get to see if I have what it takes to program them. I think that I do, or at least will.
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| Post 2 made on Sunday July 15, 2007 at 03:12 |
Proggieus Long Time Member |
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Its a great class, but remember its no longer drag and drop, we are now talking writing true code. ive seen some great remote programmers just not able to do it. If you "get it" you will do fine, if not you will have a long road ahead. it is just a completly differant beast.
good luck
Todd
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| Post 3 made on Monday July 16, 2007 at 07:45 |
charris Advanced Member |
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I am in exacly in the same position. I am going to my 1st AMX training next week, in the UK though. Any tips from the ACE boys?
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| Post 4 made on Monday July 16, 2007 at 09:05 |
MN Installer Founding Member |
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Well, being an AMX guy myself, I think the biggest thing I can say to someone just starting is to not get overwhelmed. In truth, most AMX programming you will ever do is pretty simple. There are lots of complicated ways to do the simple things that can save you many lines of code and typing, but they don't necessarily work "better", they just make the code-jockey more efficient.
Ultimately, its all just a big "If-Then" statment, or actually many IF-Then's. So if X occurs, then do Y. X may be a button press on a TP, traffic into an RS-232 port, a pulse on a contact closure, or a time-based event. Y can be sending an IR code, flipping a TP to a different page, sending an RS-232 command, or even closing a relay.
Keep it simple, don't let yourself over complicate things and you'll do fine. It is true though that some people "get" programming in a text based language, and others don't.
Brad
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| OP | Post 5 made on Friday July 20, 2007 at 15:07 |
cheesehead22 Long Time Member |
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My head hurts!
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| Post 6 made on Saturday July 21, 2007 at 08:59 |
Proggieus Long Time Member |
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Now that you have been to the class the most important advice i can give is just keep doing it, If you step away from it for a week or two it will be hard to get back at first write practice programs for upcoming jobs that are not using AMX just dont let yourself get rusty. Also try and push yourself a little by trying to do stuff that wasnt actually covered in the class, it will help when you got to take Programmer II
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| Post 7 made on Saturday July 21, 2007 at 10:43 |
flcusat Senior Member |
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On July 21, 2007 at 08:59, Proggieus said...
Now that you have been to the class the most important
advice i can give is just keep doing it, If you step away
from it for a week or two it will be hard to get back Ditto. I know this for own experience.
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