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Fwiw you can set up monitoring with https://www.alarmclub.com/ for like $10 a month. And you just program it yourself, no installer For me, I chose to have it monitored to get the homeowners insurance deduction for having monitoring. I also have it through c4 panel but sometimes my wires the cars that sits between the alarm panel and the c4 panel get jacked up and I lose c4 control over it.

Come in when the building crew leaves and install your own conduit runs.

We cut Xfinity Tv last year and replaced with Hulu/Disney+/ESPN bundle via 4K AppleTVs behind each TV and have been pleased. We kept the Xfinity internet and upgraded to the highest data plan. The direct connection to each appletv and direct Ethernet connections are great. Dropping the Xfinity boxes saves $$ and hassle from having all the Xfinity boxes in the rack and relying on distributed video. The standard c4 remote is OK. Being able to use the TVs remote itself opens up voice search which is nice. I’d suggest try the streaming option first before trying the Xfinity boxes option.

As I mentioned above, the US Copyright Office was looking at this issue and has now issued updated rules relating to Right to Repair and did so as exemptions to the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-copyright-office-expands-rights-to-repair-software-enabled-devices

No it’s not going to entitle you to obtain manufacturer software. The state laws are probably preempted by the federal DMCA for stuff we care about in this forum. FTC is looking at right to repair now in this sense. When it goes through at federal level it probably does so in the form of an exemption under the DMCA from liability for circumventing access controls or using a third party software to, for instance, get into c4 or John Deere software. And exempt people from reverse engineering it to be able to make their own type or compose pro. And probably prohibit c4 and others from locking stuff down in certain ways. I can’t imagine anything compelling manufacturers to give out software or turn over source code or things like that.

Can you say Alexa, set volume to X. And figure out ahead of time what your favored numbers are.

Last night all my thermostats randomly adjusted and lights changed settings. This morning I realized mysterious schedules had appeared in my Thermostat settings for all days of the week. Any ideas how this could have happened? There were some power flickers last week, none today, that turned the equipment off so perhaps somethings got reset but I've never experienced this before. Password to log into my c4 is long and complex.

Thanks everyone, I’ll have someone remote in and check my settings / profiles. My switches were installed in 2014 so if there’s a hardware limitation it is what it is. I ordered the engraved covers in 2021 (I move slowly…) and can see these have the darker colored sensor cover fwiw.

I have engraved light switches. The brightness seems to vary across some of them. Sometimes it is noticeable with separate switches on the same wall one will be a nice bright readable blue and the one next to it not so much. Is there a best-practice for dialing in the brightness level? I suspect the differences are related to the individual switches auto-adjusting brightness level rather than this being a manufacturing defect in the engravings, although I have searched the forums and found various posts related to that being an issue for some people.

Yes. I had @Matt Loweprogram a few switches to turn on ceiling speakers or outside speakers and tune to a specific audio source and channel with a double tap. Some other switches are programmed to turn all lights in the house off or all lights on with a triple tap.

Correct!

I cut the cable cord and use Apple TV 4ks at all the TVs. I use the Apple TV’s to launch Netflix, Hulu etc apps instead of the native apps built into the TV. I have hundreds of movies and songs in iTunes. FWIW I think it is easier for my wife and kids to navigate through the Apple TV’s with the C4 remote than to connect other devices and go back and forth. I like the consistency. The price differential didn’t really matter to me, we’ve got iPhones and iPads and going with Apple TV’s made sense. On another note I guess I need to unload my c4 8x8 video matrix, IO extender, and baluns now.

I have a Luma 510 DVR (LUMA-510-DVR-8CH-OT) with 5 wired cameras. I'd like to add two cameras to my garages without running wires back to the 510, is this possible? Are there wifi cameras that can integrates? I have two wifi Logitech Circle 2s in my garages right now, Ring doorbell on the front. Looking to consolidate down to one interface. I suppose other option is to add two Ring wifi cameras for the garages and just call it a day.

Brilliant, thank you! I had some issue, I could see all the cameras tiled on the C4 GUI but when zooming into an individual camera it would hang on the circle of death. I'm on a Mac but was able to use the Luma VMS for Mac app and go into each camera and change it from H.265 to H.264 and set bitrate to 8192 and now everything works as you describe. I did not need to do anything in Composer, fwiw. Thanks again for sharing.

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