mstafford388
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mstafford388 got a reaction from msgreenf in Greenfield Solutions project quick start
Looks awesome, well done!
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mstafford388 got a reaction from neil12011 in Seeking recommendation for a reasonable Control-4 PROGRAMER in / near ORLANDO FLORIDA to assist me with updating my home control4 programing and equipment updating.
Sent you a DM. I'm not far and can help.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from turls in Expanding Zigbee Mesh
It's a combination of things (one being processing power of the controller and how many processes it's running), but in my experience it's not necessarily the controller, rather the size of the mesh geographically that tends to bog things down. Zigbee doesn't have a ton of range and is a mesh so you'll get data hopping through repeating devices back to the Zigbee server. A ton of devices generally means more hops, hops means packet failures. I've seen rather large zigbee meshes with more than 70 devices work better than very spread out meshes with 30 devices when those farther devices need more than 2 hops to get back to the server. This gets worse when some of those hops have to happen through material that is detrimental to a 2.4Ghz signal (ie tile floor, brick or concrete wall, etc). Zigbee is rock solid when it's setup properly but that is very dependent on environment. C4 has come up with the 70 number as a guideline not necessarily due to processing power, definitely not because of Zigbee protocol limitations, but rather from what has been discovered in the field. If you're at 70 or less you're chances are high to have a reliable Zigbee network when taking all these factors into account.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from jogii17 in C4 Training...Certification Stays with Employee or Dealer?
The certification is tied to the individual but it's only any good if you're with an active C4 dealer. Whichever dealer you're with would just have your profile transferred to them and they'll get you an active account with logins, etc.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from SpencerT in Fan Controller to a Keypad Controller?
Yes, you can turn the fan speed controller into a regular keypad that you can program to do whatever you want, you just can't reconfigure the button layout. The bond driver should have discreet speed commands, I've done exactly what you are trying to do in the past.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from BY96 in Music Playlist Options
So Tidal doesn't have "channels" but they do several things I think would accomplish what you're hoping for. You can search for genres and in there you'll find albums, new music, playlists created by Tidal, playlists created by others, etc. They also post personalized mixes for you that incorporate some songs you've listened to and other songs that would be similar. If you run through a playlist either you've created or a public one, once that playlist is over it automatically kicks into kind of a pandora mode where it continues on with a mix of artists/songs similar to what you were listening to. I've been relatively pleased with it for a long time now as using the mixes and continuing to listen after the end of a playlist puts some new music in there to the point where I rarely feel like it's gotten stale. Add in good integration and I'm pretty happy.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from Andrew luecke in Composer Download
You download pro from the dealer portal.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from South Africa C4 user in Dummy room for remote
Using custom buttons would consolidate those commands and clean up your interface but aren't as elegant as experience buttons. The Halo touch has more buttons than the Neeo which may make several of those commands you've mentioned you added unnecessary.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from msgreenf in HALO Daylight Savings Time
C4 knows about this and did something so that the next time the director checks in it should fix it. It's probably fixed by now honestly.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from Neo1738 in Must Have Hardware
The only "must have" I would say every system needs is a good dealer relationship.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from SpencerT in Must Have Hardware
The only "must have" I would say every system needs is a good dealer relationship.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from msgreenf in Must Have Hardware
The only "must have" I would say every system needs is a good dealer relationship.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from Andrew luecke in Sonos Programming - pulling my hair out
I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from Javad in Could not connect to director
If you just reinstalled composer why are you running 3.0? Get up to date buddy.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from msgreenf in Expanding Zigbee Mesh
Get yourself a CA1 and create a second Z-Server. Identify your zigbee devices to the appropriate Z-Server based on location.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from cnicholson in Core1 / EA-1 as additional audio source/path?
As long as you create the path in the project programming to match however you wire it all this will work fine (although you may get weird sync issues from room to room depending on how you do all of it).
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mstafford388 got a reaction from TundraSonic in Double tap but prevent single tap programming to execute
No worries, that's actually a pretty common one even for dealers to do mistakenly.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from C4 User in Double tap but prevent single tap programming to execute
You sure you have the single tap programming on single tap and not when the button is pressed?
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mstafford388 got a reaction from DLite in Self Install Dimmer/Switches
The aux switch does not wire the same way as a regular switch. You would just want the electrician to know you want constant power/neutral to the new switch, as if it were a receptacle then the rest is done in programming. Happy to help if you don't already have a dealer.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from crazybuppie in Total Home (SCAM) Technologies – Don’t Be A Sucker! Give Your Business to Epic Systems!
Agreed, I hope the OP at least realizes that his concerns are trying to be addressed and gives Keith the opportunity to do so. I also agree with Keith that if no money exchanged hands you probably shouldn't be throwing around the scam word. The op mentioned red flags but it's a red flag for me that his first ever post was made to bash a company that it sounds like he didn't even actually do business with. I understand this space can sometimes be frustrating for the consumer because it's not always easy to tell what you are getting for your money. At the end of the day your relationship with your dealer is the most important part of this whole process, and it seems like they may have found that with Epic which is fantastic. Doesn't necessarily mean you need to go out of your way to bash the other guy though, who may have been trying to give you exactly what they were thing you asked for in a system, and you just weren't on the same page yet.
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mstafford388 reacted to cdcllc in Switch flashing Green
I would highly recommend @msgreenf or @chopedogg88 for remote support. I've worked with both and they are great. I haven't worked with him, but @mstafford388 is in Tampa and has great experience and content on this board - he would be worth contacting too.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from chudel in Reset Switch LEDs to Default - missing something
Lighting defaults just sets the default for any new devices added after that. I'd have to double check gen 1 to make sure they have this (I think they do), but in the properties of the dimmer/switch/keypad you can change the LED values then apply to all the other lights in the project.
For the scheduled event thing, can't you just program what you want to happen then hit execute?
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mstafford388 got a reaction from C4 User in Zigbee network issues
Awesome! Zigbee is super reliable once you get it dialed in.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from DLite in What files get stored onboard a controller?
Nothing to worry about at all.
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mstafford388 got a reaction from Amr in Moving house, wanting to try a different platform...
Part of the pitch with distributing cable boxes is (was) you don't need as many. Instead of paying $10/month for each of your 10 cable boxes, get 2 and distribute them your 10 TVs. That's not as big a deal with streaming, as you pay $100ish for a Roku for each TV but only once. That's likely the point that was being made....as more things have moved to streaming the justification to spend thousands on video distribution has faded hard.