Any other IT guys

High end commercial and residential AV systems automation. I do installs and service calls, so everything from pulling cable to trying to figure out why some tv isn't working. Starting to delve into Crestron programming too. Basically, we build stuff for custom touch panels so you can press a button on the touch panel that says "watch tv" and all at once the tv powers up and chooses the correct input, home theatre turns on, lights turn low and shades to down.

Here's a pic of a touch panel programmed for a house

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And the view from the house it was in

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I just realized you may have worked with stuff my mom sells. Ever work with shades sold by north solar screen?

Also, what's your opinion on Extron relative to Crestron? I've got some Extron gear I picked up in college, it seems good but slightly clunky somehow.

I've been in IT for 30 years. If I want to talk IT, I go to an IT site. I come here to talk Jeep.


Cool story bro, if you don't like stuff that isn't about jeeps, get the hell outta off-topic. Stop crapping up the damn thread.
 
We only use Lutron shades, not sure where we get them from though. And extron makes switchers and stuff, crestron the controls. We use both, but less and less extron bc everything is going more digital so there is less need for say, a 12x12 video switcher. In residential builds that stuff is almost all gone but for commercial we still use a good amount. Extron also makes a lot of input plates that we use, scalers, and things like that.

And yea dude, there are some insane houses I go to. Stupid amounts of money.
 
And yea dude, there are some insane houses I go to. Stupid amounts of money.

If I had a house like that I'd probably still be too cheap to roll you out, I'd just build it myself.

I could see it now. Big beautiful house with an amazing view.

Wonderfully crafted furniture.

Massive garage with six or seven old $500 XJs in various stages of disrepair.
 
If I had a house like that I'd probably still be too cheap to roll you out, I'd just build it myself.

I could see it now. Big beautiful house with an amazing view.

Wonderfully crafted furniture.

Massive garage with six or seven old $500 XJs in various stages of disrepair.
No MJs? Come now. :nono:

Shit, now we're talking about jeeps. Quick, back to IT!
 
Okay, fine... server sitting in the corner of the garage, running a PostgreSQL database, with a cluster of servers (HA) running PHP web server front ends for used parts management.
 
No MJs? Come now. :nono:

Shit, now we're talking about jeeps. Quick, back to IT!

Maybe I'd have a help desk ticketing system for all of my isssues.

Wait. I don't think there are any powerful enough.
 
Maybe I'd have a help desk ticketing system for all of my isssues.

Wait. I don't think there are any powerful enough.
For your Jeep issues, maybe. For *YOUR* issues.... not possible, overflow error.
 
*ANYTHING* from CA is a royal PITA.

We demo'ed that here a year ago. Took a cluster of sales geeks and a week to get it up and running. The system we went with was up in less than a day, and on about a tenth of the hardware.
 
IT manager / BOFH here. I see that you have installed 10 toolbars on your web browser. You must be a really advanced user. No, I will not build a website for your sister's new MLM business.
 
IT manager / BOFH here. I see that you have installed 10 toolbars on your web browser. You must be a really advanced user. No, I will not build a website for your sister's new MLM business.

Nah dude, it's okay. The toolbars and e-mail stationary/smilies were all FREE!
 
*ANYTHING* from CA is a royal PITA.

We demo'ed that here a year ago. Took a cluster of sales geeks and a week to get it up and running. The system we went with was up in less than a day, and on about a tenth of the hardware.

I was a Clarity admin, and a backup admin for BMC SDE... We could have ported all our SDE customization to Remedy but for some reason IT Execs decided spending 8 months and however much money on making CA service desk work just like Remedy was a better idea.
 
IT support for NASA the last 5 years. I cater to the folks that can write up a 500 page overview of the workings of the hydraulic systems on an F-18 or figure satellite telemetry in their heads, but can't figure out how to open a .pdf..
 
Maybe I'd have a help desk ticketing system for all of my isssues.

Wait. I don't think there are any powerful enough.
I think you might have to speak with a Big Data solutions architect to leverage enough clouds to handle a jeep bug tracking/ticketing system.
 
Hell with users, my main complaint is with printers.
 
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