On January 31, 2011 at 12:52, bigshinybutton said...
I took the AV*D training a couple of months ago for Prodigy and I am starting to get into replacing our RTI offerings.
Some questions persist and any help/guidance would be appreciated.
1) For multi-room retro installs with no wire between (individual TV,BD, etc.), in the RTI world, I would install individual XP6, XP8, etc. Is the Crestron way to put multiple PMC2 in each individual room and map each remote to the PMC2 in that room?
This is how I've done. Soon there will be the PMC3 which will allow processors to work together as a single network.
2) If this is true, what happens to MobilePro? Can 1 mobilepro install/device control separate rooms? In other words, can they move between rooms, connect to that processor, and use their iDevice?
You can have multiple systems on your app, so they would just have to change which system they connected to. I would suggest keeping as much as the lighting as possible to just a single processor.
3) Does anyone have any leads on custom GUI for the PTX3? The stock really is awful.
Use your favorite. Guifx, NTdesigns, blackman custom. BUT Destiny template is more than just graphics, there is a lot of template data that goes into it as well. The easiest fix to have a slightly more custom layout without breaking anything is to change the back ground. Make sure you size it accordingly and use a JPEG. I have tried a couple different and paired with the Destiny black buttons, you can get a decent looking panel.
YOu can change button graphic and retain the template data as well, which I've been working on, but its time consuming.
4) I looked through Prodigy Composer and was surprised by the lack of a good device database. In RTI, we had the mega user databases -- is there an equivalent for Crestron or are we forced to buy the learner?
Once you get to SystemBuilder, the data-base is a little better. I use the RTI Mega list and RTI learner then just copy and paste the pronto ccf/hex commands over to the DEAL and create crestron modules.
