Installation guide

Programming Crestron Controllers for a Kaleidescape System
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Zones
Presets are shared between all zones on all players in the system. A preset saved
on one music zone can be used anywhere in the system. The Keypad Presets
module must to be tied to a specific zone. A CPDID and a Zone ID must be assigned
in the module to associate the presets with a player and zone in the system. See
Programming on page 18 for more information.
Saving presets
To save a preset, the music item must be played first from any control interface —
the OSD with an IR remote, an SATP touch panel, or even the control panels
available on the browser interface. Once the music is playing, press and hold the
keypad button for a few seconds to set the preset. The playback mutes briefly to
indicate that the preset was successfully saved. Preset modification can be disabled
(locked out) through the module.
Any discrete music item can be saved as a preset. An individual track, album, mix
album, genre, artist, classical work, classical composer, user-defined collection, or
all music can be saved to a preset.
If more than one item is set to play (for example, three albums are queued up in
Now Playing), only the item currently playing is saved to the preset. There is no need
to re-save presets when new content is added to a genre, artist, classical composer,
user-defined collection, or mix album. The system plays the entire contents each
time recalled, regardless of what tracks were present when the preset was saved.
Preset browsing
The module also provides the ability to browse through the presets in numerical
order. There are three controls provided for this activity: first, next, and previous. If
a specific preset has not been defined, that preset is skipped and the next defined
preset is activated.
Preset feedback
Each preset in the module is associated with a descriptive text label identifying
what is saved to that preset. For example, if the user saves the genre Jazz to a
preset, then Jazz becomes the preset label. If the user saves music by Queen or the
Alice in Chains album Facelift to a preset, then the preset label becomes Queen or
Alice in Chains – Facelift respectively. These labels can be used on keypad character
displays or touch panels to identify the status of a preset button.
The module also reports information about the currently selected music entity
using the Now Playing Item output. If a preset is currently playing, the label
associated with that preset is displayed.