The Stars Are Going Out

ericmedley
ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
in AMX General Discussion
Sorry for the Dr. Who reference... :)

Have any of you noticed the trend of AMX (Netlinx or Duet) modules quietly going away? I have a fairly large repository of AMX modules. As a matter of course, If I pull one up to include in a program that I haven't used in a while, I'll run over to the AMX site to see if I still have the most current version. I've noticed that they seem to be phasing out some of the modules.

I can understand this for stuff that is no longer relevant (Say for example: Escient Music Servers which have been off the market for a long time.) but some missing ones are still current stuff.
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  • nickm
    nickm Blinky Light Aficionado
    I've seen the opposite as concerned with the more commercial-oriented gear. It's rare that a mainstream display, codec, or other device is not in the library by the time I go to add it into code. Now whether the posted module has the functionality I require and is bug-free is a completely separate issue :-)
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  • DHawthorne
    DHawthorne Junior Member
    Some of them are so danged buggy, or just way overblown, it's just as well they go away if they are not going to be updated. Also, sometimes a Duet update can break a Duet module, so again, if there is no update, it may as well go away. There are also a number that were written by a third party, and they may not want to be forced to support them (just ran against that case myself the other day - flaky module that no one at AMX knew anything about because it was written by someone else but not the equipment vendor).
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