Controlling Radia Lighting Controller

trx250r87

Has anyone been able to control an AMX Radia Lighting Controller with something other than an AMX controller via AXLINK?
I see there are "dry closures" on my RDC-DC/120 board. The way I understand it, these are set at the default presets shown in the reference guide. Are these presets programmable?

http://www.amx.com//assets/manuals/RADIA.OperationReferenceGuide.pdf

Eric

ericmedley

It depends upon which unit you're talking about. There were some earilier models (in fact I still have one that I use personally and it still works great) that only did serial control - no AXLink. There were also some that did all this and contact closure. What model box do you have to control.

And not to challenge why - but the AxLink method works quite well and provides feedback and all that. I have no idea why you'd want to blow out a bunch of relays to control one when the AxLink method works well.

GregG

The simplest way I can think of to do this is grab a cheap old axlink control device with a serial port and code a little translator. An EM232 should be able to do the job: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-5-AMX-AXB-EM232-Enhanced-Master-232-/251724040245?pt=Home_Automation_Controls_Touchscreens&hash=item3a9bec0835

trx250r87

The board I have has dry closures, AXLINK and PROLINK. The 4 Panja low voltage switches currently control OFF and ON only. They are connected via AXLINK. The older Axcent3 controller is being replaced with a different brand control system.

Eric

ericmedley

trx250r87 wrote: »

The board I have has dry closures, AXLINK and PROLINK. The 4 Panja low voltage switches currently control OFF and ON only. They are connected via AXLINK. The older Axcent3 controller is being replaced with a different brand control system.

Eric

Ah, now the truth comes out. Yeah, the suggestion above is a good one. YOu could program a quickk and easy driver to talk to the "other" contrl system. You could also just use the existing Axcent 3 adn do the same programming on it.