Re: Help out a Crestron newbie please!

[Marc F Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Jun 2006 17:12:24 -0700, geekboy0001@xxxxxxxxx wrote in message
<1149725544.413447.65940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>Hi, all!  Okay, here's my situation ...
>We have a Crestron programmer who has decided to leave the country and
>now we're stuck.  I've got all this Crestron equipment --
>touch-screens, wired, wireless, etc., and a lot of programming that's
>already been done... but it's not finished.  Some buttons turn on/off
>some TVs, change the channels, blah blah etc etc... typical stuff.
>Now, here's the kicker -- I need to learn this stuff and take over the
>project.
>My background is in serious programming.  I have a formal CS degree and
>worked with every language from Assembly to .NET.  I'm a very good
>programmer and engineer, but what I don't know is anything about
>Crestron programming, and I find very little resources out there.  I
>need to learn this, and learn it quick.  I've done lots of automation
>with digital I/O units and various other serial I/O and what-not, and
>from the crappy stuff that I see this person created, I can't imagine
>this is too difficult.
>My question is -- how to begin?  What's the language?  Where are the
>resources?  Compilers?  A book or two would be nice?  Can someone
>recommend where to begin?  He left me with all the "password codes" to
>the units themselves, which I presume are used to load the software,
>but what do I use to edit it and define the I/O points, etc?  If
>someone could steer me in the right direction, I would be greatly
>appreciated!
>Thanks, guys.


Philadelphia attorneys working for Crestron once threatened by letter to sue
me for using the ECOntrol.org domain.

A primary competitor www.AMX.com is now gleefully pointing out that AMX *is*
suing "CRESTRON?S EXCLUSIVE MDU PARTNERS [] FOR RACKETEERING AND THEFT OF
TRADE SECRETS"
http://www.amx.com/newsroom/pressrelease-file.asp?release=2006.05.05.a

Crestron's seems to be a mostly closed universe, but there is a Crestron
google group with 15 posts since December 2004 in it ;-)
http://groups.google.com/group/Crestron-Programming

We wish you luck.

(What a coincidence! -- no mention of Crestron in this news group for
months/years? -- until yesterday and now this post today ?-)

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.EControl.org