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Step 1:
Create your Audio/Video GUI Pages using the HTX2 Mobile Designer Software. Save the Project.
a. HAI has provided a licensed graphics and templates software package with the HTX2. When used with the HAI HTX2
(in accordance with license agreement), these graphics and templates can be used in HAI HTX2 Mobile Designer
software projects that you create. There are two templates: one for the iPad (named “GUI_GROUP_HAI iPad.grl”),
and one for the iPhone and iPod Touch (named “GUI_GROUP_HAI iPhone.grl”).
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In the HTX2 Mobile Designer, right-click on the “GUIs” tab in the Project tree and select “Import GUI Group”
from the context menu. Browse to the folder where the template files were installed and select the template
that you want to import.
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Once the template is imported, the buttons on each GUI Page can be assigned navigations and/or actions
(such as IR commands, relay commands, serial commands, macros, and much more).
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Entire pages of commands can be populated by dropping a Device node from the Project tree onto the GUI
page background. You will be prompted to choose which command types to populate.
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You can also drag/drop Devices onto GUI Groups and Pages inside the Project tree. This allows you to
populate pages quickly, without even needing to open the page in the GUI Editor. Dropping a device onto a
single page will populate only that page. Dropping onto a GUI Group will populate the entire Group. This is
especially useful for volume commands.
b. When creating GUI Pages, it is suggested that you create a “landing” page for each room that allows the user to
access all of the devices in selected room. The name of the “landing” page in the HAI templates is “Home”. If you
have multiple rooms that are being controlled, you can create multiple landing pages, such as “Living Room”,
“Bedroom’, and “Theater”, each with access to the devices that will be controlled within that room.
c. The Home page in the HAI templates gives the user access to all available devices. From each device page, it is
suggested that you create a button that brings the user back to the landing (or in this case the “Home”) page. In the
HAI templates, there is a green “House” button on each device page that will bring the user back to the Home page.
d. When creating GUI Pages, at least one page must have a button with the “Exit GUI” navigation assigned to it. The
Exit GUI navigation is used to go back to the previous list in Snap-Link Mobile. On the Home page in the HAI
templates, the green “House” button will bring the user back to the previous list in Snap-Link Mobile. It is suggested
that that you place a button with the “Exit GUI” navigation on each landing page.
e. If you have multiple GUI Groups (for example you have similar designs for both an iPad and an iPhone), you must
name the “landing” GUI Pages (the GUI Pages that will be selected from within Snap-Link Mobile) in each GUI Group
with the same name. For example, in the HAI templates you will see that the GUI Group for the iPad has the same
name for the pages in the GUI Group for the iPhone. The GUI Group for the iPhone does have some additional
pages that the GUI Group for the iPad doesn’t have; however, those additional pages shouldn’t be configured as a
landing page that will show up in Snap-Link Mobile.
f. When complete, save the project.
Step 2:
Import the Project into PC Access.
a. Open a PC Access Account file.
b. Under “Extended Setup”, highlight “GUI Pages” and click on the green + icon at the top on the toolbar.
c. Browse to the HTX2 Mobile Designer project file (the one that was saved in Step 1) and double-click it. Note that the
HTX2 Mobile Designer project will have the file extension of “.bwe”.
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The “Select GUI” dialog is displayed. Select the GUI Group that will be used.
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You will be given a choice of which GUI Pages will be displayed in Snap-Link Mobile. Select all of the pages
that the user can access from Snap-Link Mobile.
In most cases if there is only one HTX2 in the installation, only one page (the landing page) will be
selected. However, the installation might support multiple HTX2 units, so multiple landing pages (one
for each room) may be selected.
If there is only one device in a room, you can add the GUI Page for that device so that you go directly to
that GUI Page when the “Remote Control” button is pressed in that room.
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