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15% off in our Olympic sale!

We’re celebrating the Olympics here at C3 with a great offer starting today – by giving all our customers a 15% discount! That’s 15% off across the board in our online store!* Whether it’s full templates, Crestron modules or icons – now’s the time to buy!

All you have to do is input the following code at the checkout stage to qualify:

OLYMPICDISCOUNT

This code is valid for the duration of the Olympics and the offer will end at midnight (GMT+1) on the 12th of August. The code can be used as many times as you like during that period.

So get along to the store and get yourself a bargain!

Enjoy!!

*Except for Bitwise templates, Control4 Themes and our services such as the floorplan rendering service.

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25% Off In Our Jubilee Sale!

C3 are in a festive mood with the Jubilee weekend upon us in the UK, so we decided – what better way to celebrate than to reward our customers with a full 25% off discount code? Yep, that’s 25% off across the board in our online store!* Whether it’s full templates, Crestron modules or icons – now’s the time to buy!

All you have to do is input the following code at the checkout stage to qualify:

JUBILEEDISCOUNT

This code is valid for one full week and the offer will end at midnight (GMT+1) on the 8th of June. The code can be used as many times as you like during that period.

So get along to the store and get yourself a bargain!

Enjoy!!

*Except for Bitwise templates, Control4 Themes and our services such as the floorplan rendering service.

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Introducing our latest GUI Template

switchDesigned specifically to take advantage of CommandFusion’s JavaScript compatibility, Switch offers fantastic flexibilty over how the template looks and is controlled. By introducing a ‘Widget’ system, Switch gives the user the ability to add all their favourite controls to the main page and switch them around whenever they like.

The template comes with an example GUI and JavaScript file, 20 ready made widgets, multiple backgrounds and icons (including multi-state animations), a full theme library, icon creation PSD’s and help documentation.

Click here to download a fully functioning demo or purchase the templates.

To see the template in action, check out the YouTube video…

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Xenon for RTiPanel is here!

The long awaited Xenon template for RTI’s iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch has arrived!

xenon rtipanel templates

The templates come with 6 pre-made backgrounds, over 70 near-photo-realistic icons, multiple ready-made pages and are fully optimized for both orientations. The iPhone/iPod Touch template comes with both a standard resolution and stunningly sharp Retina version as standard. The GUI’s come as .rtitemplate files making it very simple to just drop these into your templates folder for full access to the pages via the page wizard and all the buttons, groups and backgrounds via the bitmap library.

More here…

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This is how we do it…

Here’s a fully interactive flash demo to give you a taste of how we program floorplan driven interfaces for our clients…just click here

Hint – select the key icon on the lower left side of the demo window for an icon key and help.

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Xenon for BitWise

Xenon for BitWise

Our best-selling Xenon template is now available for Bitwise on the iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch.

Supporting both Landscape and Portrait orientations, this stunning template has a collection of ready made page layouts including command tags prepared for you to customise as required. A full library containing all the graphics allows you to simply drag and drop images into your page.The templates also come with a full component palette and over 80 near photo-realistic icons.

Xenon is available right now for the iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch. More here…

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Winter Madness Sale!

Every week starting from Monday 31st October and for the duration of our sale, we’ll be offering you a GUI template from our back catalogue at a ridiculous 75% off! These offers will last for one week only!
winter madness sale

All you have to do is keep an eye out on our website or keep an eye on your emails to find out which template is being discounted on any given week to snap up a real bargain!

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C3 Graphics Themes – first in the 4store

C3 have just become the first third party company to sell graphics themes on the Control4 4store app store. Our three themes currently available, Red, Silver and Pink can be bought from the 4store and instantly downloaded to your Control4 7″ or 5″ panel to give your interface a whole new look.

c3 graphics themes for control4

These are the first of our graphics themes to appear and we look forward to creating many more different themes in the future. Watch this space!

See the templates here.

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Xenon Comes To Crestron

It’s finally here – the long anticipated arrival of our best-selling template for Crestron Mobile Pro G for iPad and Mobile Pro for iPhone/iPod Touch.

xenon for crestron mobile pro g

Sporting stunning graphics, over 80 of our near photo-realistic icons, scrolling menus, changeable backgrounds, pre-anchored components, a plethora of pre-made pages and full component palette pages; this template packs a punch.

Xenon is available now for both iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch, separately or as a great money saving bundle of both templates.

xenon for crestron mobile pro

Both templates are fully optimised to work in portrait and landscape mode providing you with total flexibility.

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Crestron processors – 3-series vs 2-series

Crestron’s 3-series processors have been on the market for a few months now.  We thought it was time we took a quick look under the bonnet.  We will  attempt to answer the age old question:

Should I upgrade?

Let’s check it out and see what it’s got.Crestron 3 series processor front and rearHere is a summary of the details of the MC3 in comparison to the AV2:

AV2 MC3
Memory
SDRAM 64MB 256MB
Flash 4MB 2GB (expandable to 1TB)
CompactFlash 2GB (support to 2GB) N/A
NVRAM 256KB N/A
Operating System FAT32 file system withreal-time multitasking Extended FAT file system withCore 3 OS and support for up to10 simultaneous programs
Communications
Ethernet 10/100BaseT, SSL, TCP/IPUDP/IP, CIP, SMTP, SNMP,Webserver support 10/100BaseT, SSL, TCP/IPUDP/IP, CIP, SMTP, SNMP,IIS v6.0 Webserver,IPv4 or IPv6 compatible
Cresnet Yes Yes
USB No Yes x 2 rear (HID, Mass Storage)1 x front (console port)on front panel
IR/Serial Yes x 8 Yes x 5 with 1 input to receive
Relay Yes x 8 Yes x 2
Digital I/O Yes x 8 Yes x 2
RF No Yes (infinet EX, MTX-3/MLX-3)
A/V ports
Audio N/A 1 x RCA L/R in1 x TCA L/R out(passthrough with auto mute for playing wav, mp3, or wma files)
Video N/A 4 x out (Component and composite)*Currently not enabled

Toolbox System Info
The real advantage of the MC3 is in the program management.  It can load up to 10 simultaneous programs as opposed to one for the AV2.  Here’s the system info window shown in Crestron Toolbox (click image for a larger version):

Crestron Toolbox Screenshot

As you can see, there are two programs in there, and you can load up to 10.

Debugging
Using the Simpl debugger you can still debug your programs individually. When you select the IP address of the MC3 or USB to connect to the processor, a popup will ask you which program you want to debug. Then everything loads up just like normal.

Uploading Programs
Be careful with your debugging windows while uploading.  We noticed a consistent problem in loading new code (abort modem-x) to the MC3 when 2 or more debugging windows are open.  This was all via USB so we’re unsure if the same problem persists via tcp.  It’s difficult to define where the problem lies, sometimes no debugging window is open and the error appears. We would have to open a new debugging window and then close it and seems to let you fully upload the program like that.

Controlling Multiple Programs
You cannot control multiple programs with the same IPID.  You will have to use EISC (Ethernet Inter-System Communications) to talk between programs as you did before with multiple processors. The only difference with the EISC method before and now is that the IP address used is 127.0.0.2 to refer back to itself.

At the End of the Day
If your system is running fine on a 2-series processor then it may well not be worth upgrading to the 3-series, however if you are intending to run multiple 2-series processors in a single location then one MC3 will certainly make financial sense.

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