Room Configuration

nds2006

Hi,
Looking for the best ways to control the following system.

We have 6 Touch panels and 1 NI4000 processor controlling 5 rooms with different room configurations.

Tp6 is for selecting the room configuration only.

single rooms control 1 projector, 1 screen, 1 switcher, 1 dvd, 1 tuner, lights and blinds

I am using tp arrays to determine which panel was pressed and then run a function to operate the projector and screen on the single room config. When rooms 1+2 are single and 3+4+5 are combined tp 5 controls the combined room. when 1+2 are combined and 3+4+5 are single tp 2 controls the combined room. tp2 and 5 control when the room is split 1+2 combined and 3+4+5 combined and finally tp5 controls the full room.

Should I determine which button is pressed depending on the room config and run a different function or have different "if" statements in the function to determine which config the room is in?

Regards,

Noel

drewdb

If your rooms have relays that show the open or closed states of each room, you could have variables like: Block1_Joined and Block2_Joined. these will be true or false. in the button event for the room 2 panel you could do a switch case.

Button_Event[devPanel2, btnSystemControls]
{
Push:
{
//Var
Stack_Var Integer nIdx;
Stack_Var Integer nChannel;
nChannel = 0;
//Get Channel
nIdx = Get_Last(btnSystemControls);
nChannel = btnSystemControls[nIdx];
[devPanel,nChannel] = 1;
Switch(Block1_Joined)
{
Case True:
{
Switch(nChannel)
{
Case 1 : { f_System_On_Join(); }//System On
Case 2 : { f_Select_Pres_Mode_Join(); }//Select Presentation Mode
Case 3 : { f_Select_VC_Mode_Join(); }//Select VC Mode
Case 4 : { f_Show_Mode_Page_Join(); }//Show Mode Page
Case 5 : { f_Show_Computer_Join(); }//Show Computer Page
}
}
Case False:
{
Switch(nChannel)
{
Case 1 : { f_System_On(); }//System On
Case 2 : { f_Select_Pres_Mode(); }//Select Presentation Mode
Case 3 : { f_Select_VC_Mode(); }//Select VC Mode
Case 4 : { f_Show_Mode_Page(); }//Show Mode Page
Case 5 : { f_Show_Computer(); }//Show Computer Page
}
}
}
}
}

Or you could have the switch case in each individual function.