VidaBox vAutomation Online Training

Installation and Initial Configuration

- Installation.
Demonstrates a basic installation of a single machine system, which will be used in the rest of these tutorial videos.

- Loading Drivers.
Shows you how to load device drivers, which is the most fundamental aspect of configuring CQC, since it allows CQC to control those devices.

- Client Side Drivers.
Demonstrates the concept of client side driver interfaces, which are used to configure more complex drivers.

- Admin Interface.
Describes the fundamental administrative tool for CQC.

- Advanced Installation Part 1.
Gets deeper into the installer. You can come back to this after you've done the rest of the tutorial.

Actions

- Part 1. Explains the basic concepts of actions and demonstrates configuring a system action.

- Part 2. Demonstrates some more advanced action techniques.

Scheduled and Triggered Events

- Triggered Events.
Describes how to configure CQC to react to external changes.

- Scheduled Events.
Describes how to configure CQC to do things at particular times.

Graphical Interfaces

- Concepts. Explains the basic concepts of CQC graphical user interfaces by way of a working example.

- Interface Editor. Demonstrates the basic operations of the CQC User Interface Editor.

- Actions in Interfaces.
Expands on the action concept, discussed above, and the extra capabilities available in user interfaces.

- Text. Describes the use of static and dynamic text content in user interfaces.

- Images. Describes the use of images in the interface system.

- Check Boxes. Describes the checkbox, which is a very flexible widget that can be used in a number of ways.

- Overlays. Describes the overlay widget and its uses.

- ToolBar. Describes the toolbar, which is a very commonly used high level widget.

- Volume Knob/Slider. Demonstrates the volume knob and slider widgets. These look very different but act very similarly.

- Pop-ups. Demonstrates how to use pop-ups in your user interfaces.

- Pop-outs. Demonstrates how to use pop-outs in your user interfaces. These are just fancier cousins of pop-ups.

- Focus. Explains the concept of focus and the means for implementing it in your CQC interfaces.

Web Server

- File Based Content. Describes the web server and the simplest uses of it to display automation system information.

- Repository Images. Describes how to access images from the CQC image repository in your web interfaces.

- Dynamic Content 1. Describes the basics of the CML-Bin mechanism to generate dynamic HTML via the CML language

CML Language

- Macros Part 1 .
A quick and dirty overview of the Macro Workshop and how to write basic automation logic at the CML level.

- Macros Part 2. (Coming soon!)
Following up on part 1, this installment gets into more detail about writing automation logic.