Vantage LCD320C5 Touch Screen Display

The Vantage LCD320C5 Touch Screen Display from Vantage is a nice compliment to the Domain Controller. With its large, bright, and colorful LCD screen, it offers an intuitive way to control almost any device in your home including AV equipment.

At the same time, the Domain Controller makes it incredibly easy to program the Vantage LCD320C5 Touch Screen Display because the display can take advantage of the UAPI relative addresses. This means that a Vantage display in one room can control that room and another display in a different room can control that room and that the displays can have exactly the same program running in them. Therefore, one program in the Vantage LCD320C5 Touch Screen Display can handle most homes - and that program has already been developed for you.

The Domain Controller and the Vantage LCD320C5 Touch Screen, together, provide the following benefits.

  • Intuitive control of AV equipment, Room scenes, lights, curtains, fireplaces, windows, heating and cooling, security system, and Groups of Actions such as All Outdoor Lights Off.

  • Positive control of the on/off status of all AV components via either discrete commands or power sense.

  • No programming of the AV devices on the Vantage display.

  • Common AV sources, Room scenes, HVAC, security system, and Groups of Actions have already been programmed into the example.

  • Attractive display that works well in brightly lit rooms.

 

After purchasing the Vantage LCD320C5 Touch Screen Display, do the following:

 

 

 

Vantage Controller to Domain Controller Architecture

The most common architecture will be to wire the Vantage touch screen displays to the Vantage controller and then wire the Vantage controller to the Domain Controller.

The Vantage touch screen sends a serial string to the Vantage controller. The serial command contains both the command to be executed and the address of the touch screen.  The entire serial string is forwarded to the Domain Controller. The Domain Controller determines which touch screen sent the command from the address information, and, therefore, knows which room to apply the command to.

 

 

 

 

Download the Application we Wrote for you

We wrote an application for you that you can download and start using immediately. The path is shown at the right.

Download the application:

LCD320C5 with Ubiquity serial.qlk

to your desktop so that you can load it into the Pronto Pro editor below.

 

http://www.destinynetworks.com/

Downloads/

Password_Protected/

Software for 3rd Party Products/

Vantage/

LCD320C5 with Ubiquity serial.qlk

Load the example program

Begin by downloading the Vantage QLink software from the Vantage download page.

First, download and install QLink 3.5. Then, download and install QLink 3.5b update.

 

Run the QLink program.

Install and run the Vantage Touch Screen Editor program that came with the product.

When it first opens, it will ask what file you would like to work with. Select "Open an existing configuration file" and click on "More Files ...".

Click OK.

 

 

 

 

The "Open" menu will pop up.

Navigate up to where you save the file you downloaded from our web site, select it, and click "Open".

 

 

 

Expand the tree to the TouchPoint device, and type "Ctrl E" to open it up (or right click and select Properties).

 

 

You will get the screen at the right. It provides access to control Room scenes, AV entertainment, the Security system, Heating and Cooling, and Groups of Actions.

All other pages have a "Home" button on the bottom to return you to this page.

 

 

Room Scenes

Select the "Test" pointer from the tool bar.

Click on "Scenes".

The Room Scenes page allows the user to control lights, fans, curtains, and other devices in the room from the touch screen. This requires that the house has an intelligent lighting system.

In addition to changing multiple devices in the room via the Room scene, this page gives direct control of a smaller set of devices.

 

 

AV Sources

Click on "AV".

Seven AV sources have been set up for you ("TV/Video", on the bottom right, is not a source - it toggles the TV through its input connector groups).

If your theater uses any subset of these sources and does not have two or more of the same type of source, then no programming is necessary - the Domain Controller can receive the commands that are already loaded into the Vantage Touch Screen and translate them to control the actual equipment that exists in your theater.

With the actual Vantage Touch Screen display, selecting the desired source will send out a short command from the remote control requesting that the Domain Controller set up the path for playing the selected device. The Domain Controller will do the rest. It will set up the whole path from the chosen source to the display and/or speakers. The Vantage Touch Screen will then jump to the transport page for controlling the theater.

If the source is already playing, then the  user can select "Favorites" or "Transport" at the bottom of the page. Each will jump to a new page.

 

 

After selecting a source, the Vantage touch screen display will jump to the "Transport" page to provide control of the AV entertainment equipment.

From here, you can navigate to the menu commands and the keypad buttons.

You can also get to the Settings menu to change the video mode (e.g., anamorphic, widescreen, standard, or scroll through them) and the audio mode (e.g., matrix, THX, stereo-5ch, stereo-2ch, DTS, Prologic, Mono, or scroll through them).

 

Security System

The Security System page allows the user to arm and disarm the security system from the Vantage touch screen display. This requires that the house has an intelligent security system.

 

 

Heating and Cooling

The Thermostat page allows the user to control the temperature in the room by set the mode and/or target temperature in the room. This requires that the room has an intelligent thermostat. The buttons on the right enable direct setting of the temperature in the room.

 

 

Groups of Actions

The Groups of Actions page allows the user to execute the default set of Groups of Actions from the Vantage touch screen display.

 

 

Configure Ubiquity

Go to the "Keypads" layer of the Design Module.

 

 

Click in the room in which the Vantage touch screen display is located.

 

 

You will get the "Add a Keypad" pop-up menu with the default being the last type of keypad that you added

Location: select the location of the keypad to auto generate the name.

Room controlled: selecting the correct  "Room controlled" is very important. When you select "This Room" in the Action Tree, you are referring to the room you select with this dropdown box.

Keypad name: the default name is usually good, but you can change it if you want.

Make: select "Vantage".

Model: select "LCD320C5".

After making the selections above, you will have the menu below and to the right.

 

 

Configuring for the Direct to the Domain Controller Architecture

If you are using the architecture where the Vantage display is connected directly to the Domain Controller via an RS-232 adapter, then you want to do the following:

Baud Rate: the Vantage LCD320C5 defaults to 9600 baud, 8 data bits,  no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow control. Please use those settings.

Serial Port: use the dropdown to select the appropriate serial port.

Click OK.

You are done. Hook up the wires and use Check My Destiny to check your work.

 

Controlling other rooms using UAPI

The Ubiquity Application Program Interface (UAPI) provides a way to obtain the serial string to control any device in your home that is connected to the Domain Controller.

 

 

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Add a Second Source of the Same Type

Adding a second source of the same type (e.g., a second DVD player) is just a little more complicated then having just one source of each type, but still much easier than programming the Vantage Touch Screen to control them.

Open the "AV Sources nice icons" page.

 

 

 

First, let's see how the existing source buttons work.

In the example at the right, we selected the Satellite icon. Note that it links to either the Cable set top box or the Satellite receiver - whichever one is installed in the theater.

When the button is pressed, first it sends a command to the Domain Controller so that the Domain Controller will set up the path for that source to play on the TV and/or speakers in the room. Then, the button causes the Vantage Touch Screen to jump to the Keypad page so that the component can be controlled by the user.

 

 

 

 

Therefore, to control an additional AV source, start by duplicating one of the existing AV sources on the AV sources page.

In our example, we will duplicate the Satellite receiver.

Next, click the "Appearance" tab at the top of the Button Properties menu..

Select the "Bitmap" of the second device. Alternatively, you could have replicated the DVD icon for a second DVD player, but note that the word "DVD" is part of the bitmap of the button image. Using the Label, you can add the 2 to the image.

Important: The IR code that the Vantage Touch Screen will send is the IR code of the device you copied. That IR code is a reference into a table of actions. That table is the set of button on the Remote Control menu of the Design Module.

Recall that the Vantage Touch Screen is sending out Destiny IR codes. Each code is unique and it is mapped to one of buttons on the Ubiquity AV Remote Control menu (the one that looks like a "field of buttons"). Essentially, the IR code that is sent out is directly mapped to one of those buttons. Now, you get to choose what that IR code does by clicking on the button on the AV Remote Control menu and using the Action Tree to select an action.

 

 

 

Therefore, we want the new button to send out an IR code that maps to an unused button in the Ubiquity AV Remote Control menu.

Delete the existing link.

Click "Create Link...".

Open "[Ubq]" (the hidden one, not "Vantage Touch Screen with Ubq codes" - the active one).

Scroll down and open the "User 40, 41" page. The User IR commands are IR commands that have been reserved for applications like a second AV component of the same type.

Select the "User 40-1" IR code. The number refers to the 40th row, 1st column of the Ubiquity AV Remote Control menu (which is where we will put the Action to play the 2nd DVD player).

Click OK.

You are done setting up the Pronto.

 

 

 

 

Add buttons to the representation of the remote control on the AV Remote Control layer to play each DVD player

First, go to the AV Entertainment layer and click in the appropriate rooms to get the "Entertainment Devices" menu.

Make sure all of the sources exist and they have been wired properly.

You may want to "View the Block Diagram" to check your work.

Close the menu.

 

 

Now, go the AV Remote Control layer of the Design Module.

Click on the dot representing the existing Vantage Touch Screen remote control (if you have not added one yet please do so by referring to Configure Ubiquity)

 

 

You will get the Edit Remote menu.

Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the menu using the scroll bar on the right of the menu.

You will get the menu shown at the right (but easier to see).

Note that one of the buttons on the left is labeled "User 40-1". When the DVD 2 button is pushed on the Pronto, an IR code will be sent to the Domain Controller that will invoke the action on this button. We will now change this button to play the DVD 2 player.

 

 

Click on the User 40-1 button to bring up the action tree. Follow the path shown at the right to play the DVD 2 player.

Note that you cannot use "This Room" because relative addressing for AV components requires that only one source of each type can be available in a room.

 

You should also click on the existing "DVD" button and give it an absolute path to the 1st DVD player. This way, if you rearrange DVD players in the Ubiquity menus, good things will still happen.

You are done.