Controlling Radia Lighting Controller

trx250r87
trx250r87 Junior Member
in AMX General Discussion
Has anyone been able to control an AMX Radia Lighting Controller with something other than an AMX controller via AXLINK?
I see there are "dry closures" on my RDC-DC/120 board. The way I understand it, these are set at the default presets shown in the reference guide. Are these presets programmable?

http://www.amx.com//assets/manuals/RADIA.OperationReferenceGuide.pdf

Eric
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  • ericmedley
    ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
    It depends upon which unit you're talking about. There were some earilier models (in fact I still have one that I use personally and it still works great) that only did serial control - no AXLink. There were also some that did all this and contact closure. What model box do you have to control.

    And not to challenge why - but the AxLink method works quite well and provides feedback and all that. I have no idea why you'd want to blow out a bunch of relays to control one when the AxLink method works well.
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  • GregG
    GregG Just some guy...
    The simplest way I can think of to do this is grab a cheap old axlink control device with a serial port and code a little translator. An EM232 should be able to do the job: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-5-AMX-AXB-EM232-Enhanced-Master-232-/251724040245?pt=Home_Automation_Controls_Touchscreens&hash=item3a9bec0835
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  • trx250r87
    trx250r87 Junior Member
    The board I have has dry closures, AXLINK and PROLINK. The 4 Panja low voltage switches currently control OFF and ON only. They are connected via AXLINK. The older Axcent3 controller is being replaced with a different brand control system.

    Eric
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  • ericmedley
    ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts
    trx250r87 wrote: »
    The board I have has dry closures, AXLINK and PROLINK. The 4 Panja low voltage switches currently control OFF and ON only. They are connected via AXLINK. The older Axcent3 controller is being replaced with a different brand control system.

    Eric

    Ah, now the truth comes out. :) Yeah, the suggestion above is a good one. YOu could program a quickk and easy driver to talk to the "other" contrl system. You could also just use the existing Axcent 3 adn do the same programming on it.
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