2 Touchpanel shared by 2 rooms

winstonma

Now I have one AMX NI sharing between 2 rooms. Both rooms have very similar configurations. And there are 2 TPs, both TP can operate both room.

I know duplicating the UIs can makes the life easiler but when it's talking about maintainance. It does matter. So I want to share the UI between 2 rooms. How can I do that? Thanks

DHawthorne

winstonma wrote:

Now I have one AMX NI sharing between 2 rooms. Both rooms have very similar configurations. And there are 2 TPs, both TP can operate both room.

I know duplicating the UIs can makes the life easiler but when it's talking about maintainance. It does matter. So I want to share the UI between 2 rooms. How can I do that? Thanks

In a nutshell: make the panels identical, and store them in an array. Create a tracking variable array of the same size that tells which room each panel is currently controlling. When the panels change room (presumably a button press), change the variable in the tracking array to reflect that. Then, whenever a control button is pressed, look up which room is being controlled and send your commands there.

DEFINE_DEVICES

DEV dvPanel1 = 10001: 1:0
DEV dvPanel2 = 10002: 1:0

DEFINE_VARIABLES

DEV dvPanels[] = {dvPanel1, dvPanel2}
CHAR nRoomByPanel[] = {1, 2}     /// default room 1 to panel 1, etc.

DEFINE_EVENTS

BUTTON_EVENT[dvPanels, nRoomChange]   
// where nRoomChange = array of button channels to change rooms
{
    PUSH : nRoomByPanel[GET_LAST(dvPanels)] = GET_LAST(nRoomChange)  
}

BUTTON_EVENT[dvPanels, nControlButtons]
{
    PUSH :
    {
        SWITCH(nRoomByPanel[GET_LAST(dvPanels)])
        {
            CASE 1 : { // operate on room 1}
            CASE 2 : { // operate on room 2}
        }
    }
}