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  1. I have a stack of HC-250's. What are they currently selling for?
  2. I think Google is a competitor. They had a massive presence at CES this year. They seem to want to own the home space, and I think they are getting it. I see Google commercials on TV and more people know about Google Home than they do Control4 because of that. Google is set to release their Hello Doorbell in April. Apparently when the Doorbell recognizes a person's face, they announce "Person xyz is at the Door" over the Google Homes placed around the house. They will also send the doorbell stream to the chromecasts plugged into the TV's. This is all done without a programmer. I don't think Control4 can even do this. They are struggling to get something simple like two-way remote video communication working. I think there was a time and a place where Control4 was the smart home leader, but I could see Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple taking that away very quickly with their marketing muscle and money power.
  3. Why aren't you guys calling your dealer or an IT guy before you chance your router? LOL. Wasting so much of your time.
  4. From a guy who's been in 100's of attics of all shapes and sizes...and adjusted pricing accordingly. My recommendation is that if you're going to complain at all about what someone is charging you to work in your attic, go up there and do the work yourself.
  5. $149 Harmony Home Companion $50 Amazon Alexa Echo Dot 2 Hours of programming (Theatre + Caseta) Use Companion remote, or Phone, or Voice to control theatre.
  6. Yuu can do Gigabit on the Edgerouter gear. But as AMG said, the overhead can take away from that.
  7. Yeah, you're right. At that point why would that individual ask a dealer to supply any of the network components. They would probably source their own.
  8. For information sake, how are you making more on Ubiquiti than say Pakedge? That comment goes against the "dealer" model that claims that if integrators use Pakedge there are more margins.
  9. Also, I think the problem with Pakedge is that you'd have to contact a Control4 dealer to help you with your network. That is off putting considering many AV integrators don't know Network Engineering very well. Many people would like to fix their networks themselves, or have an IT person. The upfront implementation of Pakedge is expensive, and I think long term support for a consumer would be equally expensive. I see it like Control4 Lighting. Once you install Control4 lighting, you are married to a Control4 dealer. But if you choose something like Lutron Lighting, you have much more selection of electricians and companies that you can choose to support your lighting system. And Lutron lighting can be integrating into other systems such as Crestron, iRule, etc etc etc.
  10. I've installed and used: Luxul Cisco Ubiquiti Araknis Netgear D-Link Untangle DD-WRT Firmwares Tomato Firmwares I like Ubiquiti's transparency with their integrator/consumer. It seems to me that the AV industry saw a category that they can add to their product line and are packaging up Luxul, Pakedge as some sort of elite networking product. But I don't think Luxul and Pakedge are worth their asking price considering companies like Ubiquiti are on the market offering more robust solutions at half the cost.
  11. What does that mean exactly? I think Ubiquiti is superior to Pakedge in every category.
  12. I guess in your case, you can use the ubiquiti phones for intercom/ video calls. I've been considering this setup for a while, let me know how it works out.
  13. This is why harmony will always outsell Control4.
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