


So long story short, those of us looking for work-arounds to loosing the browser based web-control, are looking for SG based fixes that work with the existing touch panels and technologies that are currently installed and being deployed. I would have to re-design from scratch, and is therefore no longer an add-on item, or quick add to a system.

So if I have a project with SG touch panels, and the client asks for a web XPanel for additional control (or support personel to access), I can't just convert the existing SG layouts to HTML5 (CH5) like we can with SG XPanels. The problem with CH5, is even if they got the browser based version working tomorrow, most of our current projects in the pipeline (and the forseable future) are still going to use Smart Graphics, which means the 2 technologies are not compatible with each other. CH5 is still too new to rely on, even those of us who did training on it, and are trying to deep dive in it, most likely still aren't deploying CH5 projects in production yet (I may be wrong, but I'm guessing if there are, they are outliers). For most of us, getting fixes for loosing the web based version of Smart Graphics is a higher priority. Since we're half way through Nov already, I'm going to go out on a limb, and say "probably not". Full HelpDesk functionality including system diagnostics, monitoring and control is possible in real-time.Does anyone have a sense of whether HTML5-based browser control is really going to happen in 2020? The exact touchpanel GUI is presented on the remote PC, replicating every button-press, including system feedback. The result is a suite of inspired solutions called XPanel.Rather than simply providing remote access, XPanel, using e-Control2, truly replicates the Crestron touchpanel experience on any PC or PDA. e-Control2 provides a fully transformable platform through Crestron's VTPro-e® GUI design software. Crestron introduced e-Control®2, its second generation of IP-based control solutions, utilizing a Microsoft® COM/ActiveX™ foundation. Web pages were created in Java or HTML, for the first time allowing system managers and endusers access to the system from anywhere in the world.As the world leader of control system innovation, Crestron continued to revolutionize IP control, taking e-Control® to the next level. The original eControl enabled remote system control via a web browser. All are compatible with any Ethernet-equipped 2-Series control system, which support DHCP/DNS and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for the ultimate integration of IT and AV.In 1998, Crestron developed e-Control®, the industry's first IP-based control system. Within VTPro-e®, Crestron's touchpanel GUI design software, there are five XPanel options: XPanle for Mac®, XPanel EXE, XPanel IE, XPanel PDA and XPanel Emulator.
