Crestron Programming Basics

Making a room full of equipment behave like one appliance

A control system is a small computer with a program on it, wired to everything else in the room, whose job is to make a complicated set of equipment behave like a single appliance. Somebody presses one button and a projector wakes, a screen lowers, a switcher routes, lights dim, and an audio system comes up at the right level. That is the whole product, and the program is the thing that does it.

Inside: What a Control System Is For - Processor, Panel and the Wiring Between - The Five Ways to Control a Device - Serial Control, and Getting It Right - Control over IP - PJLink, a Standard Worth Knowing - Feedback, and Why One-Way Control Fails - Logic, Signals, Blocks and State - The User Interface as a Design Problem - Writing a Program You Can Debug - Commissioning a Control System - Handover and the Next Programmer - Building, Testing & Certification - Where to Go Next.