ricke Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I'm looking for a way to display whether a room is current On/playing music. Ideally it would be cool if you could use the room navigator on the touchpads/MyHomePC to display rooms per floor and have the room buttons be a different color if they are ON/playing content. Is that possible?Also it would be handy to have a top level custom button that would show if any rooms are on and playing music and turn them all off at once.Thanks for any tips on how to do this, Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDave Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 Im sure with an app that could be done. But probably not practical to your needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 Isn't that exactly what the ZONES button does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 It certainly performs many of those functions, and of course you can get a shortcut/favorite put on the custom home screen.New enough systems have the little icon in the bottom bar but unfortunately that as of yet only shows up when the current room is active, not if any room is active (something dealers have been requesting from C4 as soon as the icon appeared). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 It certainly performs many of those functions, and of course you can get a shortcut/favorite put on the custom home screen.New enough systems have the little icon in the bottom bar but unfortunately that as of yet only shows up when the current room is active, not if any room is active (something dealers have been requesting from C4 as soon as the icon appeared).It's easily accessible under the MUSIC button, or like you said...you can add it to the home screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 It certainly performs many of those functions, and of course you can get a shortcut/favorite put on the custom home screen.New enough systems have the little icon in the bottom bar but unfortunately that as of yet only shows up when the current room is active, not if any room is active (something dealers have been requesting from C4 as soon as the icon appeared).I agree. I also would like to have this show up on navigators when any zone is active. I think it does that on the android MyHome app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimlip23 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 @cyknight or whoever can answer to his point above,Is this still true, with no workaround? I thought I was going crazy b/c on my iPhone/ipad, no matter what room it is set to, I see the icon in the bottom of the home that allows seeing and adding/deleting zones to current events (whatever zones are playing music and the associated source). But on my kitchen infinity screen I have to switch to the zone that is playing (assuming I know which is) in order to add zones. Am I missing something or are they working on that or is there an app or workaround that I can program or request from my dealer?Thanks to anyone who can help.Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turls Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I think I know what you mean, I'm not sure if that is a limitation or not but I'm pretty sure I have the same behavior on my system. One partial solution is the WattsOn Eragy free app, you can at least see at a glance what rooms have media playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmdsmith Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 @cyknight or whoever can answer to his point above,Is this still true, with no workaround? I thought I was going crazy b/c on my iPhone/ipad, no matter what room it is set to, I see the icon in the bottom of the home that allows seeing and adding/deleting zones to current events (whatever zones are playing music and the associated source). But on my kitchen infinity screen I have to switch to the zone that is playing (assuming I know which is) in order to add zones. Am I missing something or are they working on that or is there an app or workaround that I can program or request from my dealer?Thanks to anyone who can help.JimThere isn't a workaround. This is the current behavior. It has been requested by dealers to make the touchscreens function like the i devices so that button appears when any zone is on regardless if the screen is on an active room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimlip23 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Thanks for the feedback. At least I can stop trying to figure it out. Seems like an obvious miss by the programmers and a no-brainer to add in the next release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avittech Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 the watts on now app will show you what is playing in each room and which lights are on in the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Is there a way to see what channel is playing in a certain room? I'd like to know what channel is a tv in another room. I know I can turn on parental controls but I'm more concerned with the shows not the channel. There are certain shows on Disney that I don't want my kids watching. Also, is there a way to turn on a TV to a specific DVR recorded show without having to be in front of the TV? Everytime my young son wants to watch his recorded show, I have to run upstairs and browse to find it. I guess this is more of a Dish issue since their app doesn't address this issue. Does anyone else have a solution that is working for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdvr Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Do you have DirectTV? if so you can get a driver that will tell you what each box is on. EditNevermindI see you said Dishrumors only rumors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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