AMX Mio R-4
21 June 2007, 14:38 by Chad Reynoldson
I came across a job that used the AMX Mio R-4 handheld remote, utilizing the new NXR-ZGW zigbee gateway .
The R4 was very easy to connect to via USB (for downloading). The zigbee gateway was also very easy to configure and it was a snap to get the two of them communicating. I was worried that adding zigbee to the setup would add more complexity. My setup was very simple though and I’m sure a more robust zigbee wireless environment could prove to be more tricky.
I found it interesting that the NXR-ZGW had a device number, that even showed up online. I also received an online for the R4. I’m not sure what/how/why you would have any code to send to the NXR-ZGW, but I never looked into it either.
I downloaded the R4 Demo Pages and started there. The only problem that I had to overcome was the way the demo did the page flows. The hard button below the screen was used as a previous pageflip in the demo file. With previous pageflips, you can box yourself into a corner, so I changed the flow. The panel file had only 1 page, with the source select buttons. Each source select button did a popup and not a pageflip. Then the hard button did a “close all popups”. This way, I always ended up back at the source selections.
Another thing that I’d like to point out is this device worked well because all of my devices had discrete power control. This meant that all source selections would turn on the required equipment. Then the power button on the top of the R4 was used as a system off. I had used the R2 in a job, where we had limited IR control without discrete power. This did not work well for the end user, because we could not do any macro control and it was easy to forget to turn devices on manually.
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