Touch 10 control Lutron Blinds via BACnet?

VicWoodcraft79537 · ‎10-20-2021

Hi Guys

Can Lutron blinds be controlled via a Crestron BACnet interface?

If so is there a preferred method or product.

Thanks

Vic

tomas_vll · ‎10-20-2021

A Crestron control system?

Touch 10 UI <-> Codec <-> Crestron control system <-> Crestron BACbet interface.

the model of Crestron control system depeds on if you needs the system to do some other controll. RMC4 is a simple processor

Wayne DeNardi · ‎10-20-2021

You don't mention which codec your Touch10 is connected to - if you're using one of the very basic ones (like an SX10), then you may not be able to.

But if you have a capable codec, and if your blinds can be controlled by your Crestron, then Yes, you can add some code/macros to the crestron/codec to allow a button on the Touch to trigger the Crestron to operate the blinds.

Have a look at the Customization guide for what to do on the codec end - then you will need to adjust your Crestron code to connect to and monitor the xfeedback on the codec to see the Widget trigger events and perform whatever action is required to operate the blinds.

Wayne

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VicWoodcraft79537 · ‎10-20-2021

Hi Wayne

Thanks for the feedback.

We are using the Room Pro Codec with a Crestron RMC-4 processor. If we have to add you change the processor no problem.

It is whether the Cisco can except BACnet as a control code.

Vic

Wayne DeNardi · ‎10-21-2021

The communications between the Crestron control processor and the codec will need to be either via ethernet (ssh/telnet/XML API) or a serial connection.

Wayne

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tomas_vll · ‎10-21-2021

The Cisco Codec - can probably not interact directly with BACnet. The recommende way is to have the Codec talk to the control system (RMC-4) over serial or SSH connection. And the control system in turn talk BACnet. The codec talks xApi commands. When a custom GUI button on the touch-10 is clicked, the control system will recive a command that looks like this.

*e UserInterface Extensions Event Released Signal: "LightScenario:Normal"\x0D\x0A**

When that happens the control system program will catch that signal and do the communication to BACnet. If you want feedback from BACnet to GUI in the codec - you go the oposite way and from the control system send to the codec something like this:

xcommand UserInterface Extensions Widget SetValue WidgetId: LightScenario Value: Normal