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Sounds like the Bus Ethernet Gateway has failed or the BEG and/or dimmer packs do not have a working network connection.    

Hello, I’m new to Control 4 but not electrical work. I’m an Electrician but have recently taken a job as a Tech. Ed teacher in our local high school. Over the summer I was working on some high end homes where we are running every LED light in the home off of an individual 18/2 cable ran back to our enclosure location where we are using Control 4. My question is, would any of you have any good pictures of some of your finished enclosures work where you mounted all of your drivers, terminal strips and panduit? I’m looking to have the students work with this employer and he’s giving us the opportunity to do all of the mounting in the cabinet so hopefully we can send these out into the field/ to the houses (there’s 2) and the electricians can do the line voltage and the home run cable connections. I hope this makes sense, just trying to figure out how I’m going to integrate it into the class room. We should be getting the drivers, enclosures soon and then I want to figure out the best way to have the students layout it all out. Thanks Derrick

So, I recently swapped a 4 zone matrix amp out for an 8 zone amp (non-matrix amp) and a 16 zone audio matrix. My audio now consists of the audio matrix, the 8 zone amp and an 8 zone matrix amp.  Connections go to the matrix, then the matrix outputs go to the amps and then obviously the speakers are hooked to the rooms. Here’s the problem. All the rooms that are hooked up to the 8 zone, non-matrix amp, BUZZ...ALL THE TIME. The only way to stop the buzzing is to turn off the amp. These rooms didn’t buzz when connected to the 4 zone matrix amp, and the rooms hooked up to the 8 zone matrix amp don’t buzz at all. Just the ones hooked up to this 8 zone, non-matrix amp. Any ideas how to stop that?

You can do all of the things you mentioned with the Epic Systems driver.  Trick is to come up with trigger words that don’t conflict with higher priority Alexa keywords.   i use a combination of specific keywords (e.g. Bathroom, Kitchen, TV) and a generic trigger that I don’t actually speak but trigger from an Alexa Routine with a specific brightness level that the Epic Systems driver keys off of. For example “Alexa, turn on the TV” turns on the LR TV and tunes it to CNN.  It’s an Alexa Routine that calls an Epic Systems trigger called Alexa Routines with brightness level 22.  The macro then has a series of If commands to execute the desired function (e,g. If brightness = 22 turn on the TV and set the station to CNN).   You can use this method to get around reserved keywords (like blinds and shades) because user defined phrases will be recognized before reserved keywords) The ability for the ES driver to support SET values makes this possible and blows away C4 native support.

The main breaker blew at our house today (construction workers). None of lights would turn on after the breaker was reset. I went to the Dimmer control box and turned all the channels off then on but now the switches do not work and the lights can only be turned on or off by the channel button. I also don't remember which channels were used or not for each switch. This I can solve by trial and error as I do not have a map/schmatic (is there a was to do this other than trial or error/process of elimination?) Regardless when I turn a channel on I can't get the switch to control the zone - help.    Mr Amature.