What is CH5? It’s a Game Changer!Īs one of the largest residential CSPs in the nation, we’ve been investing a lot of time into HTML5. This provides all the benefits of a new responsive user interface with the stability of our custom built framework that’s running on thousands of projects all around the world. The best part is that we can significantly improve the user experience while leveraging our existing SIMPL# framework which we’ve been developing for the past 7 years. The flexibility provided by these new tools opens an infinite world of possibilities.

As a CSP, this is where things get really exciting for Digital Automation. So, what does this mean for you? It means that your SIMPL+® programmer can continue to work on projects developing solutions for your clients while a Front End developer builds the GUI for your projects. Crestron now has a way for web developers to create web projects that can run on Crestron touch screens and communicate with Crestron control systems. The good news is that Crestron is ready with all the new tools necessary to leverage this technology.ĬH5 is a collection of components “based on HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript web standards”.

Unfortunately, Smart Graphics underlying technology is based on Flash, and the world has moved onto HTML5 with all its performance benefits. Themes gave companies the tools to change the look and feel of their touch screen with a couple of mouse clicks, and thanks to professionals like ElevateGRFX access an array of styles. None have been more important than Custom Themes. The list of benefits is extensive: scaling of PNGs, vertical and horizontal scrollable lists, sub-page reference lists, to name a few. There is still no debate that Smart Graphics® was a seismic shift that brought a lot of welcomed changes to the platform. While there is no denying that a lot of baggage has been packed in at this point. Not a small task when you are talking about hardware that has been made over a couple of decades. The software has been commendable in its evolution, while still maintaining support for all of the legacy touch screens. Over the last 20 years, we have all experienced the ups and downs of the current VT Pro-e® development environment.

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