AMX Wireless Touch Panels User Manual
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Wireless Touch Panels (Wave Server)
Instruction Manual
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels and
Accessories
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Table of Contents
Introduction .............................................................................. 1
Overview 1
ViewPoint Models 1
Features 2
Related Instruction Manuals 2
What’s in this Manual 3
What’s New 3
Connections, Cleaning, and Charging ................................... 5
Overview 5
Application 5
Connectors 6
Multiple ViewPoints in an Installation 6
Cleaning the Touch Overlay 7
ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery 7
Power Supply 8
VPA-CHG FastCycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP 8
ViewPort Docking Station 10
Battery Charging 11
Touch Panel Basics .................................................................13
Overview 13
Touch Panel Pages 14
Standard Buttons 14
General Buttons 14
Selection buttons 15
Information buttons 15
Adjustment buttons 15
Keypad buttons 15
Decision buttons 16
Status buttons 16
Operation bars 16
Touch to Continue buttons 17
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Designing Touch Panel Pages................................................. 19
Overview 19
Activating the Edit button 19
Creating a Page 23
Adding a page 23
Setting the page color 24
Creating a Button 25
Adding a button 25
Resizing a button 26
Button Properties 27
Setting the button properties 27
Setting the button type 28
Setting the button border 28
Setting the channel code 29
Setting the variable text code 30
Setting the page flip 31
Setting the button colors for channel-off
conditions
Adding text to a button 33
Adding an icon to a button 34
Adding a bitmap to a button 35
Using TPDesign3 to Download Bitmaps, Icons,
and Fonts
Button Properties for External Pushbuttons 39
Creating an IR Macro Button 39
Pulse command 40
Wait command 41
What happens when the example macro
executes
Creating a Joystick 44
Adding a joystick to a page 44
Setting the joystick properties 45
Setting the channel code 46
Setting the level code 47
Setting the joystick colors/shades for
channel-off conditions
Creating a Bargraph 48
Adding a bargraph to a page 49
Setting the bargraph properties 50
Setting the channel code 50
Setting the level code 51
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Setting the bargraph colors/shades for
channel-off conditions
51
Linking the New Page to the Main Page 52
Exiting Edit Mode 55
Touch Panel Program Reference ............................................. 59
Overview 59
Setup Page 59
Beep 60
Display timer 60
Set time and date 61
Double beep 62
AXlink, output resolution, vX.XX, and
serial number 62
Setting brightness 62
Protected setup 63
Show palette 64
Wireless status (optional WAV-PK) 64
Wireless status (optional SMT-PK) 66
Wireless settings for VPT-CP and VPT-GS 67
Wireless Status for VPW-CP and VPW-GS 68
Wave-Pak not locked 69
Module version 69
Server version 69
RSSI 69
Network Eff. 69
Device Eff. 69
Device range 70
Server devices 70
Protected Setup Page 70
Baud 71
Device base 71
Device used 72
Setup password 72
Power up page 72
Wake up message 73
Auto assign 73
Page password 74
Calibrate 74
Power up message 74
System page 75
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Editor 78
Page tracking 79
Sleep message 79
Function show 79
Wireless Settings for VPW-CP and VPW-GS 80
Wave-Pak not locked 81
RSSI 81
Network Eff. 81
Device Eff. 81
Device range 81
Server devices 81
Wireless settings (optional SMT-PKM) 81
Edit button 82
Edit Bar - Button Menu Options 84
Add 84
Copy image 85
Move 85
Resize 85
Delete 86
Text/image 86
Properties 90
Save 98
Paste 98
Save default 98
Set default 99
Put on top 99
Properties Page - Button Types 99
General 100
Joystick 104
Vertical Bargraph 106
Horizontal Bargraph 107
Brightness 109
Time 111
Date 112
Keypad 113
Keyboard 114
Setup 114
Video Setup 115
Video Window 116
Video Joystick 116
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RGB Setup 118
Protected 119
Properties Page - External Buttons 120
External buttons 121
Setting external button properties 123
Page Menu Options 124
Add 124
Copy 125
Rename 126
Delete 126
Page color 126
Go to 127
Popup on 127
Popup off 128
Move edit 129
Snap grid 129
Edit Bar - Quit Editor option 130
AXCESS Programming............................................................. 133
Overview 133
PC to ViewPoint Connections 133
Programming the ViewPoint 134
AXCESS Programming Changes 134
System Send_Commands 135
Gray Scale and Programming Numbers 141
Colors/Shades of Gray and Programming Numbers 142
Font Styles and Programming Numbers 142
Border Styles and Programming Numbers 142
Shorthand Send Commands 143
Color/Gray Scale Send_Commands 148
Variable Text Send Commands 151
Shorthand Variable Text Commands 153
Buttons String Commands 157
Button Macro Commands 158
Loading Infrared (IR) Files........................................................ 161
Overview 161
IRLIBX 161
Loading an IR File 163
IR Memory Check 167
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Upgrading the Firmware .......................................................... 169
Overview 169
Configuration 170
Downloading the Firmware 170
Specifications .......................................................................... 173
Overview 173
VPA-BP ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery 175
VPA-CHG Fast-Cycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP 176
ViewPort Docking Station 177
Contacting Sales and Technical Support................................ 179
Overview 179
U.S. Sales and Technical Support Teams 179
AMX International Offices 180
Technical Support 180
Index......................................................................................... 183
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Figure 1
ViewPoint touch panels
Introduction
Overview
The ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels and ViewPoint WAVE Touch Panels are handheld, liquid crystal display (LCD) panels that allow you to control devices remotely.
Figure 1 shows some of the available ViewPoints.
ViewPoint Models
There are four models of the ViewPoint touch panels:
• ViewPoint Color Wireless Touch Panel - (VPT-CP)
• ViewPoint Grayscale Wireless Touch Panel - (VPT-GS)
• ViewPoint Color WAVE Touch Panel - (VPW-CP)
• ViewPoint Grayscale WAVE Touch Panel - (VPW-GS)
The VPT panels are one-way infrared (IR) and radio frequency (RF) only. The VPW
panels are two-way digital Spread Spectrum RF and one-way IR.
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Introduction 1
Features
The other features of the ViewPoint touch panels are:
• All panels have 6-inch diagonal (153.9 mm), 320 x 240 (HV) pixel screens
• VPW-CP has a 256 color passive-matrix LCD screen
• VPW-GS has a 16-shade grayscale LCD screen
• Four external programmable push buttons
• Programmable firmware via programming port connection
• Programming port for uploading/downloading touch panel data
Note
TPDesign3 is used to convert
G2 or lower panel pages into
G3 firmware compatible
pages.
Note
Characters for Middle Eastern
languages such as Arabic are
not supported within the
Unicode fonts because they
are bi-directional. Buttons with
Unicode fonts can only be
created and edited using
TPDesign3 Touch Panel
Design Program.
• Panel programming, pages, and drawings are uploaded and downloaded
®
using TPDesign (Windows
) 16-bit or TPDesign3 (Windows) 32-bit touch
panel design programs
• One-way RF or IR transmission (VPT-CP/VPT-GS only)
• Two-way digital spread spectrum RF (VPW-CP/VPW-GS only)
• Onboard battery-charging circuitry
®
• Unicode
character support for far-eastern languages such as Chinese
• Hand-held or desktop usage
• Battery life of 6 continuous hours with full back-lighting (VPT-CP/VPT-GS)
• Battery life of 4 continuous hours (VPW-CP/VPW-GS)
Related Instruction Manuals
These instruction manuals contain additional information that relates to the Color
Passive-Matrix mini-touch panels.
• TPDesign3 Touch Panel Program
• WAVE 2-Way Wireless Accessories and Adapters for Touch Panels
• AXCESS Programming Language
• OpenAXCESS Configuration and Diagnostic Program
• Color Passive-Matrix LCD Mini-Touch Panels (Firmware version G3 or
higher)
• Color Passive-Matrix LCD Touch Panel (Firmware version G3 or higher)
2 Introduction ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels
• PowerTilt and PowerTouch Panels (Firmware version G3 or higher)
What’s in this Manual
This manual contains the following sections:
Installation Contains cabling, connections, and connectors as well as
•
cleaning of the touch panel overlay, power supply, and battery information.
Touch Panel Basics Contains descriptions and illustration examples of
•
touch panel pages.
Touch Panel Program Reference
•
Describes touch panel operations,
flowcharts, and button options.
•
Designing a Touch Panel Page Contains step-by-step instructions to
create a touch panel page, button, joystick, bargraph, and set a page
color/shade.
Firmware Upgrade Explains how to connect the ViewPoint to your PC
•
for ViewPoint firmware upgrade using SOFTROM.
Specifications Describes the physical and operating characteristics of
•
the touch panels.
Contacting Sales and Technical Support Identifies contact
•
information for technical support and technical publications, including
phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and Internet locations.
What’s New
Additions and revisions to this release of the manual include:
• Added ViewPort Docking Station and instructions for creating an IR macro
button
• Added and updated graphics
Revisions are identified with vertical margin bars on the outside margin, as shown
adjacent to this paragraph
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Introduction 3
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Connections, Cleaning, and Charging
Overview
The ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels do not require hardware installation. This
section describes how to connect, clean, and charge the ViewPoint panels.
Application
Figure 2 illustrates an example RF application for ViewPoint models
Figure 2
ViewPoint application
example
VeiwPoint Touch Panel
One-way IR
Power
Supply
VeiwPoint Touch Panel
One-way IR
Two-way RF
AXR-IRSM
AXR-WAVES
Card Frame
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Installation 5
AXlink
AXlink
AXR-RF
Figure 3
ViewPoint connectors
Connectors
All ViewPoints have two connectors, as shown in Figure 3. The power jack is for
connecting an external 12 VDC power supply for ViewPoint operation and charging.
The programming jack is a three-wire, 2.5 mm stereo jack. The required cable and
power supply comes furnished with the ViewPoint.
Power jack
Programming jack
Note
RF operating frequencies
cannot be user-adjusted.
Operating frequencies must
be factory-set.
Stereo plug male
Male DB9
ViewPoint to PC
programming
Cable FG10-517 to
cable FG10727 to your
PC's RS-232
Multiple ViewPoints in an Installation
The ViewPoint transmits data via RF or IR. The VPT-CP and VPT-GS ViewPoint
Wireless Touch Panels are shipped to operate on a standard frequency of 418 MHz
RF and user-selectable 38 KHz or 455 KHz IR frequencies. The ViewPoints can be
ordered for different RF operating frequencies that must be set when the unit is
manufactured.
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Note
The 2-way ViewPoints do not
support AMX IR codes (38
KHz and 455 KHz) but do
support other manufacturers
IR codes. The 1-way
ViewPoints support all IR
codes.
The VPW-CP/VPW-GS operates on 2.4 GHz for two-way RF communications with
the AXR-WAVES Server. It also provides one-way IR using other manufacturers IR
codes.
If you plan to use multiple one-way ViewPoints within the same locals, it is strongly
recommended that each unit be ordered for operation on different RF frequencies.
This will prevent erroneous data being received by the respective AXCESS Central
Controller.
Cleaning the Touch Overlay
You should clean the touch screen overlay after each day’s use. Materials required
are:
• Two clean, soft texture cotton cloths
• Spray bottle of cleaning solution consisting of 50% isopropyl alcohol and
50% water.
1. Turn the ViewPoint off.
2. Spray a small amount of the cleaning solution onto one of the cloths.
3. Clean the touch panel overlay with the damp cloth.
4. Wipe the touch panel overlay with the dry cloth.
ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery
The ViewPoint requires use of a VPA-BP ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery. Figure 4
shows the VPA-BP and placement in the ViewPoint.
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Installation 7
Figure 4
VPA-BP ViewPoint
Rechargeable Battery
placement
Rear battery cover
Battery
Touch panel
(rear view)
Power Supply
Note
A 220 VAC power supply is
also available.
ViewPoints are furnished with a modular wart type Power Supply (Figure 5), which
requires an input of 110 VAC and provides an output of 12 VDC at 1500 mA. The
power supply can be used separately from the VPA-CHG to operate the ViewPoint.
VPA-CHG FastCycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP
The VPA-CHG FastCycle Battery Charger for VPA-BP includes a Power Supply as
shown in
Figure 5. The power supply can be used for primary power or charging of
the VPA-BP ViewPoint Rechargeable Battery. The power supply barrel connector
plugs into the side of the ViewPoint.
When charging the VPA-BP, if the battery is inserted incorrectly (backward) into the
charger, a buzzer will sound. While the battery is charging, the red LED lights. When
the battery is fully charged, the green LED lights. If there is no battery in the charger,
neither of the LEDs light up.
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Figure 5
VPA-CHG (power supply and
VPT-CP Fast-Cycle Battery
Charger for VPA-BP)
12 VDC Power
Supply
Green LED
indicates battery is
charged
VPA-CHG Fast
Cycle battery
charger
Red LED indicates
charging
Charging pins
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Installation 9
Power supply
connection
Figure 6
ViewPort Docking Station
ViewPort Docking Station
The ViewPort Docking Station (Figure 6) provides a built-in battery charger and an
angled desk docking station to cradle your ViewPoint touch panel. When a
ViewPoint is placed in the docking station's cradle, the ViewPoint makes contact with
the charging pins and the docking station then supplies power.
When a touch panel is not cradled on the docking station, a battery can be charged
when placed within the charging compartment. When a touch panel is cradled on the
docking station, all power is fed to the touch panel. A battery that was charging will
no longer be supplied with power until the ViewPoint is removed from the docking
station's cradle.
Docking Station
Charging
compartment
Green LED
Charging pins
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Red LED
Yellow LED
Battery Charging
Note
When inserting or removing a
battery, insert or remove the
battery slowly to avoid false
indications on the LEDs.
Figure 7
Rear view
When a ViewPoint touch panel is not cradled on the docking station, an optional
extra battery can be placed in the charging compartment. The optional battery is fully
charged in four hours when the optional power supply is plugged-in to the rear of
the docking station (
Figure 7). The ViewPort Docking Station provides tricklecharging of the battery inside the ViewPoint when the ViewPoint is cradled in the
ViewPort.
Power supply
connector
Rear view
Retaining ears
(tabs)
Status LEDs (Figure 6) are located on the bottom front of the docking station. There
are three LEDs; yellow indicates a ViewPoint connection to the docking station; red
shows a battery being charged in the charging compartment; green indicates that the
battery in the charging compartment is fully charged.
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Installation 11
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Note
Refer to the TPDesign3
Instruction Manual for detailed
Touch Panel design
information or to the
ViewPoint VPXpress System
Design/Programming
Software Instruction Manual
Figure 8
Sample touch panel page
Touch Panel Basics
Overview
This section contains descriptions and illustration examples of Touch panel pages
(
Figure 8), buttons, message bars, and keypads. You can use the TPDesign3 software
program to create custom pages and download them to the touch panel. Or you can
use the ViewPoint VPXpress System Design/Programming Software.
TPDesign3 page example
VPXpress page example
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Touch Panel Basics 13
Figure 9
Touch Panel pages with
linked buttons
Touch Panel Pages
You can download objects like buttons and drawings to a touch panel page. The
number of objects depends on the type and quantity of external devices you want to
control with the touch panel and AXCESS Control System. When you create multiple
pages, you must link them with buttons.
Figure 9 shows how five touch panel pages
are linked to the Main page. Note that each page contains one button that goes to the
next page, and one that goes to the previous page.
Setup
Page 1
Page
Main Page
Page 2 Main
Page 1
Page 3 Page 1
Page 2
Page 4 Page 2
Page 3
Page 5 Page 3
Page 4
Main Page 4
Page 5
Standard Buttons
Standard buttons types are rectangles, rectangle variations, and other geometric
shapes that you can create with the touch panel editor. Buttons are set with
attributes, which means there is feedback for the Central Controller when you touch
the button.
General Buttons
General buttons are part of the mini-touch panel program and cannot be changed.
You use general buttons to specify panel communication parameters and create or
revise pages. Button examples include selection buttons, information buttons,
adjustment buttons, and operation bars. Each type of General button is described in
the following paragraphs.
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Figure 10
Selection button example
Selection buttons
Selection buttons (Figure 10) appear on touch panel pages and set communication
parameters.
Note
These button types will be
displayed in black and yellow
to indicate that they are only
for information and can’t be
changed.
Figure 11
Information button example
Figure 12
Adjustment button example
Information buttons
Information buttons contain serial numbers and firmware version information. The
properties of these buttons cannot be changed.
Figure 11 shows the serial number
information button in the Setup page.
Adjustment buttons
You can use the UP and DN buttons to set adjustment buttons. The adjustment
button example in
Figure 12 sets the baud rate for the RS-232 connector on the touch
panel.
Keypad buttons
The keypad button opens a keypad (Figure 13) so you can enter a password or value
assignment. All keypad buttons are interactive except for the entry display.
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Figure 13
Keypad example
Figure 14
Decision button example
Entry display
Keypad entry (0 - 9)
ENTER – Processes the entry
CLEAR – Resets the entry to 0
Decision buttons
Decision buttons (Figure 14) appear when an operation has two options and requires
you to verify the action before it is performed.
Decision buttons appear when you exit the Editor bar, send or receive a drawing,
designate a communication protocol, or make an operation error.
Figure 15
Status button example
Figure 16
Operation bar example
Status buttons
Status buttons (Figure 15) appear when you try to perform operations that do not
function correctly.
Operation bars
Operation bars (Figure 16) appear in the place of the Editor bar when you have
selected a button or page edit operation. The operation bar indicates which edit
function is currently active. When an edit operation is selected, it remains active until
you press EXIT on the operation bar.
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Figure 17
Touch to Continue button
example
Touch to Continue buttons
Touch to Continue buttons (Figure 17) appear when an operation requires user
acknowledgement. An example of an operation that requires user acknowledgement
is resetting the factory defaults.
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Designing Touch Panel Pages
Note
Information within this section
applies to all ViewPoint
models except as noted.
Note
If you have a pre-programmed
panel, you may not see the
Main page.
Figure 18
Overview
These step-by-step instructions describe creating touch panel pages, buttons,
joysticks, bargraphs, and setting page color attributes. For in-depth information on all
the operations available on the touch panel, read through the
Touch Panel Program
Reference section to learn about all the operations and techniques you can use to
design touch panel pages.
The VPT-CP and VPT-GS ViewPoint one-way models do not support bargraphs,
joysticks, VGA, or Video. These functions are available on the EDIT dropdown
menus and can be setup. However, the functions are not operational.
The VPW-CP and VPW-GS are two-way RF and supports bargraphs and joysticks.
Activating the Edit button
Before designing a touch panel page, activate the EDIT button that contains options
to add and configure touch panels and buttons. When powering up the mini-touch
panel, the first page is the Main page shown in
to information in
Touch Panel Program Reference if the Main page does not appear.
Figure 18. Refer to Edit button and Go
Main page
ViewPoint Wireless Touch Panels Designing Touch Panel Pages 19
Figure 19
Setup page
Note
Viewpoint touch panel
information buttons are
displayed with a black fill.
These buttons can’t be altered
and are only used to display
information. Examples of
these are the AXlink,
WIRELESS STATUS,
OUTPUT RESOLUTION,
vX.XX, and SERIAL #
buttons.
1. Press SETUP in the Main page to open the Setup page shown in Figure 19.
Firmware
version
2. Press PROTECTED SETUP to open the password keypad shown in Figure 20.
Figure 20
Setup page and password
keypad
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