Reciever plugin (4 Viewers)

[borax]

Hello,

I use diferent rs-232 controlled audio/video equipment all the time for work.
Is this plugin available for testing?

It looks and sounds very promising.

Thanks

Well, as long as they are supported by one of the (soon/hopefully to be many) protocols then there should be no problems. What kind of hardware do you use at work? I haven't finished any UI for it yet. Would you like a standalone app(no MP needed)? That can quite easily be fixed since the plugin is just a DLL, what kind of frontend you want to use can differ ...

 

[ehukki]

Hello,

I use diferent rs-232 controlled audio/video equipment all the time for work.
Is this plugin available for testing?

It looks and sounds very promising.

Thanks

Well, as long as they are supported by one of the (soon/hopefully to be many) protocols then there should be no problems. What kind of hardware do you use at work? I haven't finished any UI for it yet. Would you like a standalone app(no MP needed)? That can quite easily be fixed since the plugin is just a DLL, what kind of frontend you want to use can differ ...

I use all kinds of different equipment. Mostly Integra receivers, Runco/Vidikron TV/projectors and Inline matrix. But really any kind of A/V equipment that the customer wants or needs.
Any interface is fine for testing. Ideally, if it could be a simple data grid input section i.e..
Baud settings, Equipment name, Command Name, Command String. etc..
Maybe even the ability to have macros.
If you could have a skin overlay that pops up anywhere and adjust the volume or control lighting would be great, especially for touch screens.
All wishful thinking.

Let me know what I can do to help.

Thanks

 

[borax]

Hello,

I use diferent rs-232 controlled audio/video equipment all the time for work.
Is this plugin available for testing?

It looks and sounds very promising.

Thanks

Well, as long as they are supported by one of the (soon/hopefully to be many) protocols then there should be no problems. What kind of hardware do you use at work? I haven't finished any UI for it yet. Would you like a standalone app(no MP needed)? That can quite easily be fixed since the plugin is just a DLL, what kind of frontend you want to use can differ ...

I use all kinds of different equipment. Mostly Integra receivers, Runco/Vidikron TV/projectors and Inline matrix. But really any kind of A/V equipment that the customer wants or needs.
Any interface is fine for testing. Ideally, if it could be a simple data grid input section i.e..
Baud settings, Equipment name, Command Name, Command String. etc..
Maybe even the ability to have macros.
If you could have a skin overlay that pops up anywhere and adjust the volume or control lighting would be great, especially for touch screens.
All wishful thinking.

Let me know what I can do to help.

Thanks

Ok, right now I'm working on enabling C# scripting for the classes who inherit my main class(which is made for recievers). I can add more superclasses for i.e. video equipment etc wthout any problems... In the C# script you would have to enter info for the devices you want to support i.e. baudrates, override commandnames (since the serial protocol usually looks quite different between brands)... If I only get scripting working then macros wouldn't be any problems either. What I would like to have a look on is some serial IO protocols for the devices (haven't looked at video device serial IO before).

Do you have any experience ín C# programming(quite similar to java so if you've worked with some highlevel OO programming then I think you won't have any probs helping out)? Just thought if I get the scripting part working then you could write some IO protocol scripts to increase the script DB. The reason I need to look at some video serial IO protocols would be to make a generic superclass with some basic features in it.

/ Ola

 

[ehukki]

Unfortunately I don’t have any programming skills. But I do have access to many different brands of A/V equipment. My job is starting to work more and more with rs232 controlled gear.
I do work with someone that is a programmer. I’ll see if I can get him to help out in the process.
Thanks

 

[borax]

This is MASSIVELY cool I own a Arcam-AVR300 (quite a popular higher end receiver). It also has serial port control. Would be awesome if i could control this using my MP

Product page:
http://www.arcam.co.uk/prod_diva_AVR300_intro.cfm

Appendix: Serial programming interface (PAGE 37)

http://www.arcam.co.uk/downloads/DiVA AVR300 handbook.pdf

The protocol for RS232 is described here in detai, so should be easy to implement

Is there any chance on implementing this, that would totally rock my socks off

Greetings xander

Xander,

Could you please try my attachment out? The small testapp should allow you to power on/off your reciever, change/mute volume and input mode. Please try it out and see if it works since I have no Arcam reciever to try on. Also, anybody else who wants to try it out, as long as your reciever supports the AMX standard (most NAD's seems to do so as many other recievers). If if works(sounds great writing it in that way) then please report it here, just so I know.

Regards,
Ola

 

[lampie]

WOW great i will test this immediatly. Just drove 10 km to my office to pick up a rs232 cable. Just hooked it up, but it does not seem to connect to my receiver. I use a normal rs232 cable. Do i need a null modem cable for this?

Thanks for this awesome work

 

[lampie]

Usefull links:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amxbeginners/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/crestronamxprogrammersclub/

 

[borax]

WOW great i will test this immediatly. Just drove 10 km to my office to pick up a rs232 cable. Just hooked it up, but it does not seem to connect to my receiver. I use a normal rs232 cable. Do i need a null modem cable for this?

Thanks for this awesome work

Hmm, sounds strange... I use an null modem cable to my reciever... Perhaps that is the issue at hand here? You have nothing else that locks the port? Any error messages / exceptions thrown?

Will take a look at your link, however, I think I have managed to implement more or less the whole AMX protocol now ...

/ Ola

 

[lampie]

I dont use the com port for anything else? How can i check if this is locked. When i run the program my receivers volume level drops to 09 dB so it does get "some" data.

Get a couple of messages:

When i connect with the test program. i get the errors:

TNT.ReceiveConnector.ReceiveException. Got Bad data from receiver# at TNT.Recei... and then the text falls of the window.

Program shows this line 4 times.

So i cant connect to the receiver.

Is there a debug list i can send you?

Greetz
xander

 

[lampie]

Tried both now. Using a null modem cable and a rs232 cable. Both give errors

I use this null modem pinout:

http://www.nullmodem.com/NullModem.htm