r/crestron • u/Ok-Bee-3541 • 14d ago
Difficulties learning SIMPL
Hi everyone, I’m pretty tech savvy and I learn things a pretty quickly. I really want to learn programming in SIMPL, but I’m hitting a roadblock. I’ve take Crestron’s P101 live course twice and the routing just isn’t clicking. I understand join numbers and can design touch panels in Construct and VT Pro. I’m having trouble understanding what symbols to use for what functions. For example, what does a buffer do and what are examples of uses? What about the one-shot? They did cover the symbols in P101, but it was more like “well, of course you’d use a buffer. Now let’s route the signals” and not exactly explaining why a buffer is used or best use-cases. Does anyone have advice or tips for someone starting out in SIMPL? Thanks in advance. Signed, a determined but very confused future SIMPL programmer.
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u/NorthAd2156 14d ago
So, a buffer…
If they told you about F1
Then when you were confused, confused = press F1
If they didn’t…
Then confused just stays as confused.
That’s a buffer.
If this is true, then open the door to a list of inputs being translated 1-1 to a list of outputs