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  1. My AV receiver has audio outs on RCAs. I use these to feed the little RF link that goes straight to my hearing aids. The only issue is that the thing doesn't have a stereo-only out. I had to put a little mixer to mix a bit of the center channel into the left and right as the hearing aid thing only has a straight stereo input.
  2. I have an EA5 -> TRIAD -> 3xPAMP-8 delivering to 18 zones. The audio source is Pandora and a few other apps on the EA, as well as the output of the mixer being fed by some microphones on my grand piano as well as a scanner set to the local airport frequency (I live on an airpark). One zone feeds the audio input of the Kohler DTV in the master shower. This was sort of silly, because another is fed straight from the PAMP-8 in another shower. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
  3. I'll relay this info along in case it helps someone else. I had a dead PAMP-8. The thing powers up (and the pilot light comes on). The 8 channel numbers briefly light and then go out. It does nothing (no audio) and periodically it twitches (all the number lights blink for a tiny fraction of a second) every 30 seconds or so. Well, I bought a used one on ebay figuring I'd swap them and take the dead one apart to see if I could figure it out. While I had them both on the bench (so I could compare voltages, etc... of the working one), I found that my dead one seemed to have a loose power supply wire going from the power supply to the small control board in the front of the device. Reseating it restored it to normal operation. Don't know how that happened when the thing has been sitting screwed to an equipment rack for five years but there you go.
  4. I sent one in to be repaired, now the other one exhibits a similar problem. The thing powers up like the others (blue power light and a quick flash of orange on the 1-8 channels) but then the blue channel lights never come on and there's no sound. The mode switch is set to "POWER ON" just as my other ones. The thing is driven my the 24 port matrix switch which seems to work fine. It's getting costly having to replace these things.
  5. Once audio3client goes tits up (and it shows up with a red dot in the summary on the web interface), none of the streaming (pandora, spotify, tunein) works in any room. It comes back once I reboot the controller. I have a feeling (though not confirmed) that this has something to do with the fact that I have both an EA-5 (which is controlling the audio matrix and providing the streaming service) andan EA-1 (which is driving the 80" TV and surround receiver and other stuff related to the big TV room) and that the EA-1 was off-line (that room was being renovated and they moved everything out of it). Since the EA-1 has been back on line, I've only noticed the audio3client dying once.
  6. By connecting them to something other than the Matrix. The connection for the audio path between the matrix and the EA5 is just two sets of RCA phono plugs. It's not that the the matrix volumes were "stuck" at zero, you could not change them at from zero no matter what you did (control panels, remotes, iphone app). Sorry to dredge up an ancient thread, but the problem turned out to be a misapplied software upgrade as near as anybody can tell. This was compounded by an inept and unresponsive dealer. Finally, after giving up trying to get ahold of him and complaining to Control4, they've switched me to another dealer who came out and saw the problem. It took him and an hour or more on the phone with Control4 tech support fix the software on my system and get the thing back up. I still have the problem that audio3 dies periodically. But this appears to be an unrelated problem.
  7. There didn't used to be an API (though some hacked into it via it's web configuration screen). But if you blow the extra $600 or whatever for their WIFI interface (which allows Alexa to connect to it), it should be doable. I'm still kind of pissed at Kohler for advertising the thing as network accessible out of the box, but then deciding that the port was crippled (as is most of the rest of the system, Kohler steadfastly refuses to address bugs in the system). I'm not throwing more good money after bad on that.
  8. Eh? The volume out of the EA5 is fine. I can't change the volume on any of the Matrix-connected zones. Pressing the + button results in nothing happening (the % numbers don't change).
  9. I noticed it after a short power hit. I've tried power cycling everything. The Matrix appears to be getting network traffic (the link light is on and the data light is blinking). Note that audio programs not called up through the matrix do work fine (my home theater has its own EA1 feeding the audio system there for example).
  10. The C4 has developed a new problem which the dealer has yet to figure out. Selecting any audio input (pandora, tunein, or one of the canned audio inputs o the matrix) results in no sound. The control panels show a volume control at 0% and pressing the + button does nothing. Eventually it just drops. I assume this is likely some comm issue between the EA5 and the Triad audio matrix but most of the obvious things seem to checkout. System is an EA5 with 2.10.5 and a 24 port triad matrix. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this. Everything seems normal otherwise (and power cycling everything doesn't change the behavior).
  11. My installer is stumped. Twice we've had amp modules fail in the following way. None of the channel lights 1-8 light upon power up. Briefly (for like a quarter of a second) the lights will flash blue and you will hear music from the speaker. It then goes dead for about ten seconds and gives another blip of music and blue lights. Once the unit fails like this, it will continue in this mode even if you disconnect everything from it (including power). Swapping on of the PAMP8's (I've got three) for the deceased one causes the outputs on the swapped working unit to work fine.
  12. Thanks, apparenly my EA-5 was crocked for some reason (lots of other things were also failing). It came back after I power cycled it.
  13. I can't get connected to Pandora (it says the it can't connect). The control4 can connect to other things (weather, etc...) and I can get to pandora via non-control4 devices. I have a strange feeling that C4 uses some other server than than the one the Pandora apps on everything else uses. Anybody have any clue on how to debug this?
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