Dean Roddey
Senior Member
We are coming up on our 5.0 release of CQC (www.charmedquark.com) and have begun working on some introductory videos. This is a first take on part one of that series. This one will be re-done again before it's formally posted, with all the lessons learned applied, but I wanted to post it because the meat of the subject is still there, the real one will just be more polished.
5.0 is all about the UI you use to create your CQC-based automation solution. The old UI had been around for a long time and had grown crusty and quirky. This one is a from the ground up re-write, which makes the product vastly easier to use and understand, hopefully finally making it clear that CQC's reputation for complexity is both somewhat overblown and somewhat a consequence of a configuration UI that was working agin' it, not fer' it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYIMmbdWOW0&feature=youtu.be
This one covers:
Anyway, take a look and let us know what you think. As it says in the video, this is not to educate, it's to demonstrate, so it's a 10,00 Foot Level view of the product and how to use it. There will be subsequent videos that dig into the more technical details. And ultimately there will probably be three videos in this introductory series as well.
5.0 is all about the UI you use to create your CQC-based automation solution. The old UI had been around for a long time and had grown crusty and quirky. This one is a from the ground up re-write, which makes the product vastly easier to use and understand, hopefully finally making it clear that CQC's reputation for complexity is both somewhat overblown and somewhat a consequence of a configuration UI that was working agin' it, not fer' it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYIMmbdWOW0&feature=youtu.be
This one covers:
- Installation
- Device drivers (how CQC talks to devices)
- Scheduled events (make CQC do something at scheduled times)
- Triggered events (make CQC do something in response to something changing in one of the devices CQC has under control.)
Anyway, take a look and let us know what you think. As it says in the video, this is not to educate, it's to demonstrate, so it's a 10,00 Foot Level view of the product and how to use it. There will be subsequent videos that dig into the more technical details. And ultimately there will probably be three videos in this introductory series as well.