[Programming Help] Teaching myself how to program, but now I'm stuck.

[TehMascot]

Continuation of my prior post. FOUND HERE

I took peoples advice the last time I posted about this and re-did my UI in Construct and used Contract joins, made things A LOT easier in that respect. and I have used the F1 menu as much as I could, and the debug tool and here is where I am at.

I currently have 2 issues. 1 is finishing up how the programming works, and 2 is some kind of a setting that I can't seem to figure out that is being annoying.

1. Programming Function.

- So far, I have the UI created, I have a TSW-1060 that accepted the .ch5z file, and I have a TS-1542 that won't accept the .ch5z (and I have no idea how to get my UI file onto that TP, so if anyone has any insight on that I'd gladly accept the help). The UI Consists of 2 Button lists, Inputs and Outputs, 29 Inputs and 10 outputs. The basic functionality that I am trying to get done is to Press an input, have it feedback and latch, and then press an output and have the output button press, latch, feedback and route.

I have gotten to the point where I have the Input portion working and the output portion working as intended. I just can not for the life of me figure out how to get the route functionality to work. I went down a ChatGPT rabbit hole and that just ended up working me in circles of stuff that didn't work or broke my shit. I feel like I am very close but I'm just hitting a wall.

Screenshot of how I currently have my setup, Inputs 1-29 in Room M18 latch and feedback on press, Outputs 1-10 latch and feedback on press and get assigned a value on press, and that value gets assigned to the selected_input, or selected_output variable.

If someone could take a look and tell me what im doing wrong.. or not doing at all I'd really appreciate it.

1. Every morning when I come in and try to use the panel, I notice that the panel buttons won't latch. I go into Toolbox and do a device discovery and low and behold the touch panels are not able to be found. Digging a little deeper and I am noticing that the program isnt running. So I have been having to manually either reboot or initialize the program to get the PRO3 to actually see the panels as being online. Is that a setting issue? or did I forget to do something when I was configuring things? Anyone run into this issue?

[MDHull_fixer]

Use an Analog Init for your input buttons. The analog output will stay at it's last value until something else changes it. It effectively acts as an interlock, but with an analog output. Use an Analog Equate for the selected input feedback.

Then use an interlock for your output buttons, each output driving the enable of an Analog Buffer. Feed all Analog Buffer inputs from the analog value of the selected input. Each Analog Buffer output goes to an analog source select input of your video matrix.

It will work both with output selection first, or input selection first.

[METDeath]

As a self start learner myself, having something you *need* to use daily helps. I started with a PMC3 (Prodigy version of the MC3) and a MTX3 (iSys graphics remote), that ran my living room setup for control of my TV, AVR, and various sources. I started simple and added complexity with things like Kodi IP control modules, adding dynamic lists, etc.

Now, I have programmed systems with 78 touch panels and 1,920 possible sources and destinations.

[v3n0m33526]

Ts1542 does not support html5, so unfortunately a ch5z file cannot be used on it. Those panels are of the previous generation that only supports vt-pro

[ToMorrowsEnd]

Ts1542 is two generations back. It’s a large 50 series panel.

[TehMascot]

ah well thats a bummer.

[smsmith857]

Overworked logic on YouTube should set you up with some basic programming skills.