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First Glimpse of Crestron Prodigy Programming
One integrator gives the Wizard-based programming a try and thinks the end product "looks very nice"
We have at least a little feedback about Crestron Prodigy software.
39 Cent Stamp downloaded the wizard-based Prodigy Composer programming software and set up a faux system.
He says he spent about an hour configuring a four-zone system with a handheld remote, in-wall touchscreen, and iPhone and Xpanel interfaces. He included lighting and climate control in addition to A/V.
"When I was done I was able to open it [the program] in System Builder to polish it up," he writes in his WireMunky.com blog. "I don't have the hardware to test with yet so I don't know if I am really done programming after an hour."
He used the Prodigy's Destiny template and thinks it "looks very nice." That's a ringing endorsement from an uber-GUI guy.
"It appears to operate just like a System Builder-generated system," says 39. "I have to say that programming was quite painless."
Crestron told me that even editors can program Prodigy.
Click for more screen shots of the iPhone GUI
39 Cent Stamp downloaded the wizard-based Prodigy Composer programming software and set up a faux system.
He says he spent about an hour configuring a four-zone system with a handheld remote, in-wall touchscreen, and iPhone and Xpanel interfaces. He included lighting and climate control in addition to A/V.
"When I was done I was able to open it [the program] in System Builder to polish it up," he writes in his WireMunky.com blog. "I don't have the hardware to test with yet so I don't know if I am really done programming after an hour."
He used the Prodigy's Destiny template and thinks it "looks very nice." That's a ringing endorsement from an uber-GUI guy.
"It appears to operate just like a System Builder-generated system," says 39. "I have to say that programming was quite painless."
Crestron told me that even editors can program Prodigy.
Click for more screen shots of the iPhone GUI
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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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