Latest headlines: Scott Tiner on AMX’s recent controller line that will work with JavaScript and Python, plus news from Focusrite and more
December 27, 2023 | Volume: 21 | Issue: 48
It’s our very last ProAV newsletter of the year! And in this newsletter, Scott Tiner’s column details the latest from AMX. Scott Tiner has written about the “walled garden” approach many AV companies have taken when it comes to standards and ecosystem, etc. But in some recent news, AMX is coming out with a line of controllers that use Python and JavaScript. 1. Is this confirming the AV/IT convergence at long last? and 2. What else does this mean for the industry? Read more here.
Enjoy the rest of this newsletter, #AVtweeps and I wish you all a Happy New Year spent with friends and family.
I have written before on the problems with walled gardens, and the industry’s (or at least many companies) desire to force people into their ecosystem. While some other companies have incorporated some limited ability to invoke Python scripts from their own programs, I think that this is an amazing step forward for AMX. From this interview with Jeff Burch, it sounds like AMX is looking at this as a strategy for the future, along with opening the code to be more readily accessible to professional programmers
