5000CT serial to PC4

Swear I saw this same sort of question on here somewhere but I cant find it.

I have a Push PC4 controller and I am wanting to interface it to the clients C-Bus can I connect to the serial port on the existing 5000CT touchscreen? or is that only for connecting the touchscreen to PICED, meaning I'd have to purchase a Serial PCI?

Thanks.

 

You need to purchase a serial PCI. The serial port on the touch screen is only available for use in logic.

 

Thanks for the reply Ash, appreciate it. Had a feeling that was the case.

 

Never too old to learn

If you did have a touchscreen with logic (or a PAC or wiser) and you only wanted simple one way control from the PC4 to CBus you can just write a bit of logic to accept data over a serial or network connection and do whatever you want with it (i.e. trigger a scene etc). That's how I do it.

 

Well an iPad is going on the wall where the C-touch used to be and i'm moving the C-touch into the services room next to the PC4 so it would still run all its schedules and have all the scenes stored on it.

But if your saying it makes the C-Touch not connect to C-bus than that scenario wouldn't work I guess.

Serial PCI it is then

Thanks for the info guys.