Simple Creston change for BLU-160 control

dshriver

I use a BLU-160 and a BLU-120 for DSP and signal routing in our venue's audio system. The levels of the various inputs are controllable by my Crestron system. Its a fairly basic Crestron panel (MPC-M20). It connects to the BLU-160 via ethernet.

I recently had to do some changes on our network and for various reasons I had to change the IP address of the BLU-160 and BLU-120. Of course now the Crestron doesn't know how to find them. So how hard is it to change the Crestron programing for the new IP address?

My Crestron dealer is telling me they have to send a programmer out and its going to require a major control rewrite and much $$$. That sounds like BS to me, but I've never done any Crestron programming.

Thanks!
-David

Dan Lynch

If the program was written even moderately well, it's a 5 minute change and then reload everything. If the program was written really poorly, it could be hours of changes.

The more important consideration is, do you have the uncompiled Crestron code? If you do, then you can shop around for somebody to do the updates for you. If you don't, then the dealer has you stuck and there's nothing you can do. If they didn't give you the original files, then you will pay whatever they decide to charge you and nobody's opinion about those charges matter because they have you trapped.

Massively unethical in my opinion, but that's a long discussion for another day.

Dan

Ronin

I am a Crestron programmer and I can't imagine how it would require a major rewrite to update IP information in the source code. It might not be a bad idea to spend the money they want to charge and find a programmer that would leave the source code behind.

Andy_Potvin

This may be absurdly obvious - why not just change the BLU ip addresses back to what they once were.

Dan Lynch

So, that would mean dshriver said, \"Doc, it hurts when I do this.\" and the answer is, \"Then don't do that.\"

Dan