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We installed a Control4 thermostat about 5 years ago and it connected to our 25 year old furnace. Now we are looking to replace the furnace, probably with one from Trane. Will the Control4 thermostat work with the new Trane furnace? Here's the thermostat that we have: https://www.control4.com/docs/product/control4-wireless-thermostat-by-aprilaire/data-sheet/english/latest/control4-wireless-thermostat-by-aprilaire-data-sheet-rev-b.pdf Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the advice! I don't love the system at all, but it might be worth sticking with it, given what you guys are saying about the costs of changing. How can I determine if our system is upgradable to OS 3.3?

Thanks for the tips! I'll definitely come here if I need to sell some equipment. For the lights, we have a few things programmed. For example, there's a 'All Off' button for evening. And a few of the light switches are keypads that enable us to activate scenes. In our crawl space we have a bunch of things that look like light switches which I'm guessing are the dimmers? See attached image.

I would love to switch to something simpler that doesn't involve dealers. Any advice would be much appreciated, even though I know this won't popular with most people here. We had Control4 installed when we did a big reno. Now the components are beginning to fail, the OS (2.6) is out of date, and it's going to starting sucking money from us. We don't love the interface and I'm thinking we can just use native apps instead of bringing everything into Control4. So we're thinking about making a change at some point soon, when the cost of upgrading/repairing doesn't make sense. We use Control4 for 3 TVs, music, lighting control, and 3 door locks. Most of the equipment is sitting in two racks in our garage. We have two Apple TV boxes in there plus all the amps etc for music. We don't have cable TV - we cut that a few years ago - so all TV goes through the Apple TV boxes. The only programming we have is for lights to turn on and off at certain times of day. One thing we like about Control4 is that the TVs don't have any visible cables or boxes. You use the remote to pick which Apple TV you want to watch in your room, and then it plays. For music, we use a touchscreen to control Spotify and can choose which zones to play the music. Here's what I'm thinking: For TV, we could just mount an Apple TV box next to each of our 3 TVs. Then we can control them individually using the TV remote plus the Apple TV remote. Each room would have a separate Apple TV. For music, we could switch to Sonos or some other system. The Sonos amps/equipment could sit in the rack in the garage. (hopefully the Control4 speakers will play nicely with Sonos?) The light switches and Baldwin door locks were really expensive and I would hate to have to replace them. They are zigbee and connect to Control4. This is the biggest problem I can see with making a change. Anything else we currently have hooked up to Control4, like the doorbell and thermostat, can just be replaced with individual wifi-connected apps. Would really appreciate any thoughts that people have!

Thanks, but I don't think that's it! Spotify does work, but then every few days it just loses the connection and won't work. It can't be a password issue because it does actually work for a while each time. Any other suggestions?

Hi everyone, My dealer is really struggling to get the Spotify app to work, so I thought I'd ask in the forum. I don't know a whole lot about our setup, but I know we have Ovation equipment and the Spotify app installed in Control4. The Spotify app works for a few days or a couple of weeks, and then it stops working. The Spotify app can't connect with the server so the app doesn't display any songs or playlists. I have the Ovation OMSConfigurationUtility app on my Mac. When I open it and access the Spotify settings, I see this error: "The account credentials were not accepted by Spotify. Please check your user name and password and try again.If your credentials are correct, then we were unable to reach the Spotify server. This should be a momentary issue...Please keep trying." It's not a momentary issue though. If I restart the whole system, it will start working. But I don't want to do that every time I listen to a playlist. Every time our dealer comes round, it works for a short period and then disconnects again. Does anyone know what is going wrong here? I'm trying to give my dealer some help in figuring this out. This has been happening for 2 years now. Thanks in advance for any tips J