The links below provide a video tutorial for the CQC system. It is recommended that you view the first two sections in the order presented, since they provide prerequisite material for all the succeeding videos. Use the Try/Buy menu item above to download the installer, then begin with the first video to get the product installed. Be sure to see the How-To Videos section for help with more advanced tasks. Only the core product features are covered here.

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• 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.

  • Installing 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.

  • Basic Concepts. Before moving forward, we need to get a few really fundamental ideas clear.

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

  • Admin Interface. Gets more into depth about how to use the Admin Interface, which is the key configuration tool for CQC.

  • Advanced Installation. 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

  • Overview. Explains the basic concepts of CQC graphical user interfaces by way of a working example. Something went awry in Camtasia's processing of this video, so it came out pink for some reason. Sorry about that. But the content is still applicable.

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

  • Actions in Interfaces 1. Expands on the action concept, discussed above, and the extra capabilities available in user interfaces, in this case widgets sending each other commands.

  • Actions in Interfaces 2. More information about actions within widgets, concentrating on variable usage.

  • Actions in Interfaces 3. More information about actions within widgets, concentrating on the use of actions trigged on the loading of templates.

  • Browsers. Describes the list browser and web browser widgets. Media related browsers are discussed separately below in the media widget section.

  • Buttons. Describes the various types of button widgets. Note that check boxes are handled separately below, because of the many ways that they are used.

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

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

  • Media Widgets. Covers the variety of media widgets available and how they are used.

  • Meters/Bars. Covers the meters and bars widgets, other than the ToolBar, which has its own video below.

  • Overlays. Describes the overlay widget and its uses.

  • Text. Describes the use of text widgets in user interfaces and their capabiltiies.

  • Time/Date. Describes the time/date oriented widgets.

  • ToolBar. Describes the toolbar, which is a very commonly used high level widget. See Meters/Bars above for the rest of the meters/bars type widgets.

  • 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.

  • States. Explains the interface 'states' system and how to use it.

• 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.