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adelyte / crescendo-for-crestron

Crescendo Framework for Crestron control systems.
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Improving the interface or user experience #84

Closed etechy closed 6 years ago

etechy commented 6 years ago

Though the 2.0 is tagged for medium residential projects, I find that even a mid project e.g. 25 light keypads or 16 video rooms require a two-step menu, like areas and rooms Outside > First floor > Second Floor > Master bedroom Office Play room

Sorry if this has been approached before, but I find having this option is sometimes very important. Any solution?

DR7 commented 6 years ago

I recently had a customer ask about this as I had 17 audio zones and his wife said it was a rather large list to scroll and asked if it was possible to have the top left button in zones just as you describe. As an example his First floor has 5 audio zones, the Second floor has 4 audio zones, Garage has two audio zones and outside and decks make another 6 zones. I easily have that many light keypads but combined them into areas close together, I only have four video zones in this home.

adelyte-austin commented 6 years ago

We have done many proprietary implementations of Zone/Device lists nested by Area or In_Use status. Please email me privately to discuss your project's needs.

You can reduce list sizes by scoping in-wall touchpanels to nearby rooms and devices using the \x01\x02\x03 ID syntax in the Rooms-Sources Controller and Devices Controller modules. The same can be done for personal mobile devices if rooms and devices are not necessary for all users.

etechy commented 6 years ago

Those are nice features of Crescendo. Outside of the elegance of this framework some workarounds are possible changing the interface, but I would not like to do it again.

adelyte-austin commented 6 years ago

I agree @etechy. Though one easy list scoping trick is to use an Interlock for the user to select the Area with the outputs manually linked to the Subpage Reference List: Visibility inputs. This produces and easy list sort. The downside is it requires manual configuration per panel up front, and if the order or length of the list changes.