Quick Courses

Adagio® Composer

Crestron Toolbox™ and System Configuration Overview

Prodigy™ Composer - Pt 1: Configuring your System

RoomView™ Server Edition

Adagio® System Hardware Configuration

Introduction to the CEN-ISERVER

Audio Distribution

How To Design A Dimming System

Prodigy Composer is always the best way to configure a Prodigy System, but if your Prodigy system needs to be modified with things such as customized logic, revised interface pages, or events based on time of day or an astronomical clock, your Prodigy project can be opened modified using the powerful and easy to use tools of Crestron SystemBuilder software. This short movie will guide you through examples of typical modifications you can make to your Prodigy project using SystemBuilder, including:

• Adding new devices from the Library
• Adding interfaces from the Library
• Using global expressions, global presets, the scheduler and astronomical clock, and system functions
• Creating a start-up sequence for devices, or programmed lighting control
• When to use various button models
• Modifying the interface pages using VT Pro-e®

Approximate running time: 26 min
This course is available to Prodigy Dealers as well as Crestron Dealers and Partners

VisionTools Pro-e (VT Pro-e) is comprehensive Crestron touchscreen design software. Using VT Pro-e, programmers with no special coding or expertise can create stunning touchpanel and XPanel interfaces that are fully integrated with the Crestron control network.

Version 4.0 of VT Pro-e introduces several new features that further simplify touchpanel design and enhance the users efficiency.

This short 20 min movie will demonstrate the following new features:

• Page Template Manager
• Hard Button Manager
• Object Grouping
• Page Grouping
• Spacing Buttons Evenly
• Properties Grid
• Folders
• Dynamic Navigation

Approximate running time: 20 min

After configuring your system, the Finish step guides you through uploading the project to your processor and interfaces. Prodigy Composer is integrated with the Network Setup Wizard, a simple to use wizard that automatically configures the network settings of your system. Once the network is configured, Prodigy Composer will automatically upload your project. This short movie will guide you through the Finish step, including:

• Connecting hardware to the network
• Running the Network Setup Wizard
• Acquiring wireless devices to the wireless gateway
• Building and uploading the project to your processor and interfaces
• Review the system documentation created by Prodigy Composer

Approximate running time: 14 min
This course is available to Prodigy Dealers as well as Crestron Dealers and Partners

Prodigy Composer is a simple to use wizard for setting up and configuring a Prodigy home theater and multi-zone audio distribution system by Crestron. This short movie will guide you through the steps for selecting hardware and configuring your system, including:

• How to populate your system and name rooms, select an AV receiver, and choose a display
• Add Crestron sources like the P-IDOC-V
• Add non-Crestron sources like SAT or CBL tuners, BluRay players, game consoles, etc.
• Add wireless lighting and climate control
• Add user interfaces like the PLX2 two-way wireless remote, wireless keypads, PTL4 touchpanels, iPhone interface, and Xpanel
• Add power control and complete the system configuration

Approximate running time: 29 min
This course is available to Prodigy Dealers as well as Crestron Dealers and Partners

There's no question that the digital age is here today. Analog television is off the air; practically every device that plugs into a display has an HDMI port; the latest MacBooks only provide DisplayPort outputs; laptops now include built-in Blu-ray players; and the latest video conferencing systems feature HDMI/DVI outputs exclusively. The products you're using now won't work for much longer. Crestron DigitalMedia (DM) is the only solution that answers the challenges of tomorrow - today.

This short movie will explain the challenges of HDMI distribution and the solution that DM provides, and show you how to connect, setup, and configure the various components of a DM system including:

• Explanation of the terminology of today's digital content
• Overview of the DM hardware including input cards, output cards, transmitters, and receivers
• Configuring the DM switcher
• Determining when to use repeaters
• Copper and fiber cabling options
• Termination of DM cable and fiber (See Corning Cable System's instructional video on fiber termination)
• How to commission the DM system
• Updating firmware
• Troubleshooting using the front panel and DM Tools in Crestron Toolbox™

Approximate running time: 36min

A typical Adagio home theater and audio distribution system consists of various interfaces, controllers, and sources. In addition, you can add integrated lighting and environmental control. The basic hardware configuration should be completed before configuring your system with Adagio Composer. This short demo will show you how to connect, setup, and configure the various Ethernet and Cresnet® control and interface devices that are part of a typical Adagio system, including:

• Connecting the system components via Ethernet and Cresnet
• Obtaining an IP address for the AMS processor
• Configuring the CEN-IDOC using Crestron Toolbox™
• Setting up and configuring a TPS-4L for Ethernet
• Configuring WiFi on the TPMC-4XG using the CEN-WAP
• Adding infiNET™ lighting and climate control and acquiring to an MNET gateway
• Preparing your system for configuration using Adagio Composer

Approximate running time: 12min

The iServer from Crestron provides a very practical and cost-effective network audio server solution utilizing the popular Apple iPod® as its engine. Designed for shelf or rack mount installation, the Crestron iServer™ provides a permanent housing for the iPod, adding high-speed Ethernet connectivity to enable full integration with a Crestron control system while still allowing syncing with iTunes software.

In this short demo you will learn how to install and configure the CEN-ISERVER including:

• The features and functions of the CEN-ISERVER
• Syncing with your iTunes® computer using Crestron Sync software
• Installing your iPod in the CEN-ISERVER
• Configuring the CEN-ISERVER on your network
• Sample programs for VT Pro-e® and SIMPL™ Windows
• Troubleshooting tips

Approximate running time: 10min

The MLX-2 is a state-of-the-art handheld remote featuring Crestron infiNET EX™ 2-way RF wireless communications. Its backlit LCD screen is capable of displaying dynamic text with true feedback capability, supporting scrolling menus of channels, media titles, and numerous other commands. An array of 57 individual pushbuttons provides intuitive, tactile control over everything from home theater to whole-house automation as part of a complete Crestron system. Its compact size and ergonomic design offer easy one-handed operation, while infiNET EX technology affords reliable 2-way wireless operation.

In this short 10 min demo you will learn all about the features of the MLX-2 and how to configure it including:

• Setup and installation of the MLX-2 and the CEN-RFGW-EX gateway
• Using the CEN-SW-POE-5 power over Ethernet switch
• How to acquire the MLX-2 to the gateway
• Labeling the soft keys and configuring the display in VT Pro-e®
• Programming the MLX-2 in SIMPL Windows and SystemBuilder™
• Uploading the project to the gateway using Crestron Toolbox™
• Troubleshooting tips

Approximate running time: 10min

Adagio Composer is a simple to use wizard for setting up and configuring an Adagio home theater and audio distribution system by Crestron. This simple to use software is explained in the step by step 25 min narrated movie where you will learn the following:

• How to populate your system and name rooms and sources
• Add Crestron sources like the AAS Audio Servers or the CEN-IDOC
• Add non-Crestron sources like CD players or cable tuners
• Add user interfaces like APADs, keypads or TPS-4L touchpanels
• Add lighting and climate control
• Customize all audio levels to meet the customer's requirements and load the system

Approximate running time: 25min

RoomView Server Edition is a server-based multi-user AV resource management application. It allows you to monitor, troubleshoot, manage, and control every device in every room - throughout your facility, across the campus, or around the globe. It provides an efficient point-and-click interface and a simple "at-a-glance" view of your entire control system network, allowing facility managers, media directors, and IT specialists to work more efficiently despite having limited staff and resources.

RoomView's feature highlights include:

• browser-based Web client
• real-time PC client
• fully customizable user interface
• cross-platform global IP access
• advanced plug-in modules such as a calendar, hot list, action items, instant messenger, and Web cameras
• user-customizable display of attributes, contacts, and logs
• database integration with SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle
• Microsoft Exchange Server for scheduling
• networking support with DHCP and SSL
• report generator

Only Crestron delivers a true single platform solution that connects every room from infrastructure to interface.

This movie demonstrates the powerful features of RoomView and how to use them.

Approximate running time: 14min

SystemBuilder provides a complete graphical Windows environment from start-to-finish for control systems programmers, incorporating design tools with drag and drop menus for speed and accuracy.

SystemBuilder allows you to complete more jobs in less time by automatically programming the system and laying out the GUI design.

This simple to use software is explained in this 75 min movie where you will learn the following:

• Adding hardware to your system in the Equipment view
• Adding interfaces and engraving
• Basic programming functions inside system builder framework
• How to compile and load your program
• How to use the de-bugging tools inside real time view
• Review documentation created by System builder

Approximate running time: 75min

The Crestron Toolbox makes it easy for installers to accomplish multiple system tasks within a fully Windows-driven environment. Setting device ID's, uploading projects, updating firmware, and performing diagnostics is simplified using the Toolbox graphical tree views, right-click menus and drag-and-drop methodology - no need to remember dozens of console commands.

This short movie which consists of the following topics will play continuously, or any section may be reviewed individually.

• Toolbox Overview
  • System info
  • Network Device Tree
  • Text Console
  • SMW Program Tree
  • Script manager
  • File Manager
  • Network Analyzer
  • InfiNET Diagnostics
  • Video Test Patterns
• Initial Configuration
  • Connecting to a control processor
  • Adding controllable devices to the processor
• File Extensions
  • Updating critical system software & firmware
  • Overview of Crestron’s file extensions
• Device & Card Reporting
  • Viewing devices connected to a system
  • Viewing cards installed in the Y & Z bus slots
  • Hex numbering system
  • Network IDs and Network Device Tree
• Transferring files
  • Uploading projects to control processors and touchpanels
• Other Diagnostic & Configuration Tools
  • Test Manager
  • Network Analyzer

Approximate running time: 25 minutes

This 12 minute Quick Movie gives an overview of the powerful features and components of Crestron's e-Control 2, a broad-based technology that integrates Crestron audio/visual control into Ethernet/IP networks. By using Ethernet in your control applications, you gain the ability to harness the speed and flexibility of the Internet to access, analyze, and diagnose control system functions.

Rather than simply providing remote access, XPanel, using e-Control 2, truly replicates the Crestron touchpanel experience on any PC or PDA. The exact touchpanel GUI is presented on the remote PC, replicating every button-press, including system feedback.

Additionally, Crestron's Power Applications provide a host of sophisticated features that customers can use every day to make presentations, maintain equipment, manage network resources, and more, in easy-to-use touchpanel-based applications. Learn about these and more.

Approximate running time: 12min

This 20 minute quick course reviews the process and steps involved in designing a lighting control and dimming system. It teaches you how to recognize and promote an opportunity for lighting control and how make design selections based on convenience, cost considerations, and stage of construction. Starting with the electrical drawings and fixture layouts of a conventionally wired lighting system, this course overviews how to systematically redesign it into a dimming control system using both wall box and centralized solutions. In doing so you will eliminate the limitations imposed by the conventional system and at the same time add convenience and operational flexibility to your client's lighting system.

The five chapters of this course are:

• The steps of the design process
• Determining the topology
• Drawings of the layout
• Removing limitations of conventional wiring
• The power of Crestron control

Approximate running time: 20min

This 30 minute quick course reviews the terminology and basic concepts of lighting and dimming control and will help you understand the differences between networked (distributed) and centralized lighting systems. It also reviews the features and functions of Crestron’s line of both wired and wireless (InfiNET) lighting control and dimming products and will help you understand the various applications of each one.

The five chapters of this course are:

• Terminology and Topology
• Fixtures
• InfiNET
• Master and Slave Dimmers
• Centralized or Panel-Based Dimming

Approximate running time: 30min

Audio distribution is a driving force in our industry. This 35 min quick course provides an overview of what is required to design a multi-source, multi-zone audio distribution system. In addition to teaching a basic understanding of the definitions and terminology used to describe a distributed audio system, it demonstrates the features and functions of Crestron's industry leading products including the PAD8, BIPAD8, DAP8, room control options, amplifiers, and others. Detailed application examples are provided throughout.

Approximate running time: 35min