Whether you're working on a residential or commercial install, Vincent walks you through everything you need to know to configure and program System Manager effectively, including how to eliminate repetitive programming, avoid multi-room collisions with shared sources, and deliver a smarter client experience.

What's covered:

• What System Manager is and how it works

• List menus vs. button menus — and when to use each

• Built-in navigation in Coral and Elegance templates

• Configuring activities: enabling, classifying, ordering, and naming

• Programming selection events step by step (Activity Start, Room On, Video On, Power On Source, Activity Selected, Activity Ready)

• Programming deselection events to cleanly shut down rooms

• How shared sources behave across multiple rooms

• Audio activities and how they differ from video activities

• Other source types and why they require no programming

• Tagging button menus to connect them to centralized activities