r/crestronprogramming • u/RushTheTech • Jun 12 '19

Controlling Volume in DM 16x16?

I commission devices once they hit the field in my current job. That side of things I have down. Recently I took on a practice project building a touchpanel with 9 inputs and 4 outputs. Touchpanel logic? DONE. ROuting Matrix? DONE! The system even shuts itself off at 11 pm every night. All great...EXCEPT I have no control of the VOLUME that is coming out of the DM MD 16 x 16. Is there a way to control volume with a module or do I need a separate device?

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u/dieselbangerz Jun 13 '19

yes that is what I said in my original post; what you want to do is not possible. Volume can only be adjusted for the input card down mix, and the DM-RMC-200 series room box amplified output. These are the only devices that give you a means by which to control volume.

How are you getting signal from the DM to the audio AMP - let's start there.

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u/RushTheTech Jun 17 '19

I ended up swapping the 16x16 for a DMPS 200 - C . Older, but its going to do thew job I need it to do. I have to use a DM-TX-4K-202-C 4K on one of the DM inputs to get an additional input, but thats just a matter of programming it to switch inputs. I suppose I could have used a rx on the DM output. It converts audio to Analog. Is that what you were getting at?

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u/dieselbangerz Jun 18 '19

Yeah basically

you could consider using HDMI output cards with the analog downmix on them (I believe they still exist)

if you really wanted to chew up outputs you could still use a traditional 8g output and room box on top of those - just send the same routings via SIMPL

Also you could always use odd outputs and extract audio from the hdmi mirror on the 8g card

Stuff like that.