Anyone know of a way to integrate AMX with an existing Adigio system

kmkorf

We have a customer that over 2 years ago was wooed away to the other high end control system. Well I heard from him today and the company that was trying to complete his system to his satisfaction (for 2 years now) has finally thrown in the towel and is basically pulling out his system. He is trying not to replace everything and was asking if there was a way he could keep his Adigio system in place as he has all the keypads and media on their music server among many other things. Its it possible to interface AMX with the Adigio to save him a little bit of cash? Not that I'm really excited about do that and its certainly not going to be my primary objective. I want to put in the equipment we should have put in two years ago, but I'm open to options if there are any. And if it is possible, how much of a headache is there going to be to do so, besides the obvious maintenance issues.

Thanks,
Kurt

Andrew G Welker

Which Adagio system does the customer have? The first thing that comes to mind is to create your own protocol for what you want to happen, then create a server (IP_SERVER_OPEN) on the AMX side and connect to that server from the ******** side and send strings back and forth to do what you want.

ericmedley

2 Years??? Wasn't there a scope of work???

I'm very leery of adopting systems that, for whatever reason, didn't go well. Generally, wise customers get wise integration companies. You may be inheriting some problems that you won't find out about until it's too late.

No amount of AMX integration is going to help a poorly designed system.

kmkorf

There was a scope of work, which is why the customer is getting his money back from the other AV company. In fact he never finished paying them as they could never prove all his requested functions worked. I went I played around with the system as it is and its no wonder he couldn't use it. If I were a Cr--- programmer I could have fixed it with what he has in place. Its mostly user interface issues and very poor programming. The other AV company even had a corporate programmer in just last week to pull the system together. Said it worked ok for 2 days and then broke down again.

Having looked at what they put in place I'm pretty much going to recommend yanking the Adagio. Its basically a theater with a house audio system with a few lights. Its not really worth trying to save the components from the other control company.

I am still curious how hard it would be to overlay AMX on top of C---. I've got enough to do without worrying too much about it now though. Thanks for the suggestions so far.

rfletcher

kmkorf wrote: »

There was a scope of work, which is why the customer is getting his money back from the other AV company. In fact he never finished paying them as they could never prove all his requested functions worked. I went I played around with the system as it is and its no wonder he couldn't use it. If I were a Cr--- programmer I could have fixed it with what he has in place. Its mostly user interface issues and very poor programming. The other AV company even had a corporate programmer in just last week to pull the system together. Said it worked ok for 2 days and then broke down again.

Having looked at what they put in place I'm pretty much going to recommend yanking the Adagio. Its basically a theater with a house audio system with a few lights. Its not really worth trying to save the components from the other control company.

I am still curious how hard it would be to overlay AMX on top of C---. I've got enough to do without worrying too much about it now though. Thanks for the suggestions so far.

As someone who programs both, I don't see it being a super hard task to control the brand C gear with an AMX system, as long as you are able to program the brand C gear as well in order to implement whatever protocol you develop to talk between the two. None of the brand C gear that I'm familiar with is capable of talking to any other control system without a brand C controller acting as intermediary (at least not without doing lots of ip reverse engineering, which I can't see as being worth it).

yuri

The Adagio system is all IP control right? Shouldn't be THAT hard to reverse engineer it

bcirrisi

I do it all the time, I recommend using RS232 though. You don't want to bog down **** with IP stuff, I've had more success with 232. You just need to create a simple protocol to talk between the 2 systems (ZONE_1_ON, ZONE_2_VOLUME_20, etc).