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You may clone Essentials at https://github.com/PepperDash/Essentials/tree/master

You may download ready-to-run Essentials at https://github.com/PepperDash/Essentials-Builds

How to Get Started

This section assumes knowledge of loading programs to and working with the file system on a Crestron processor.

To help understand Essentials Framework, we recommend starting with the current Release build and loading it to a Crestron 3-Series processor.

1. Load the PepperDashEssentials[version].cpz to the processor in program slot 1 and start the program by sending console command progload -p:1
2. On first boot, the Essentials Application will build the necessary configuration folder structure in the User/Program1/ path.
3. Load 'Example Configuration/EssentialsHuddleRoom/configurationFile-HuddleSpace-2-Source.json' to the User/Program1/ folder.
4. Reset the program via console progreset -p:1. The program will load the example configuration file.
5. Launch the EssentialsExampleXpanel.vtz project. You can interact with the program (which uses simulated device logic to emulate a real commercial huddle room with presentation, audio and video calling capabilities).
6. Via console, you can run the devlist:1 command to get some insight into what has been loaded from the configuration file into the system . This will print the basic device information in the form of ["key"] "Name". The "key" value is what we can use to interact with each device uniquely.
7. Run the command devprops:1 display-1. This will print the real-time property values of the device with key "display-1".
8. Run the command devmethods:1 display-1. This will print the public methods available for the device with key "display-1".
9. Run the command devjson:1 {"deviceKey":"display-1","methodName":"PowerOn", "params": []}. This will call the method PowerOn() on the device with key "display-1".

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