sfleck Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 is anyone using one of these in an install or tried to set one up?there is a driver for it in the list, but i can't seem to get the zones setup correctly.thanks,steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlevine Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Hey SteveI recently setup a Russ Sound integrated with C4. What I had to do was take all of the little in wall controllers and mount them behind the rack in a row. I put on separate IR Emitters onto each device and made a separate Component for each zone. It was a bit tedious but it works. Let me know if you need me to be more elaborate in the description.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfleck Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 what did you then use in each zone for local control Dan?thanks,steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlevine Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Mini Touch Screens & System Remote Controls... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmf3369 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Dan,I did a system that was similiar to that but I didn't pull the keypads out of the wall but rather pulled the ir out of the cat5 ran them from the MC then stuck IR's on the keypads in place, works great. But here is the issue: when I did this 3 months a go there was no C4 driver so I did it all with custom buttons. Now there is a C4 driver that puts the controls on the interface and looks great, the issue I am having with there driver is, when you add it to composer it has all the right conections and you can bind it to each zone so everthing is great except it only has one IR binding so there is no way to control each zone/Keypad individually they all will fire at the same time. I need to be able to fire each zone IR seperatly or have the driver changed so it only has binding for each room and then just put one in each room in composer. I really like the on screen controls that C4 has for it but can't figure out how they planned on using it? How exactly are you doing the controls for each room?Did you use the C4 driver or create your own?Any suggestions for this?-JeffPremier Sight and Sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This_is_the_fun_stuff Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Does anyone know if there is a serial driver for the Russound CA4? Anyone using it? It sounds like there is an RS-232 port "for automation systems and firmware updates" on this model and it looks like the forum has a driver for the CAV6. From the older posts above, it sounds like there may be an IR driver, but I may be reading into it too much. I am having a hard time justifying the $1200+ for the C4 audio switch, since we don't listen to music a whole lot, but this looks like a good $500 ballpark alternative. Even with extra dealer time, this seems like it would be a good alternative.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzwogboy Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Extra Vegetable has a 2-way serial driver for the CAA/CAV/CAM series, I am pretty sure it is the same RS-232 codes for the CA4 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahn Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Any update on this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmdsmith Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I just used the EV serial driver for the russound tuner and Cav for a customer. It worked perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahn Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Hey SteveI recently setup a Russ Sound integrated with C4. What I had to do was take all of the little in wall controllers and mount them behind the rack in a row. I put on separate IR Emitters onto each device and made a separate Component for each zone. It was a bit tedious but it works. Let me know if you need me to be more elaborate in the description.DanDan, curious why you would go thru that trouble? It's RS-232 controlled, so you don't even need the keypads to send audio to the zones. The RS-232 protocol is spelled out from Russound... Not saying it was wrong, just curious why you didn't consider that path? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Hey SteveI recently setup a Russ Sound integrated with C4. What I had to do was take all of the little in wall controllers and mount them behind the rack in a row. I put on separate IR Emitters onto each device and made a separate Component for each zone. It was a bit tedious but it works. Let me know if you need me to be more elaborate in the description.DanDan' date=' curious why you would go thru that trouble? It's RS-232 controlled, so you don't even need the keypads to send audio to the zones. The RS-232 protocol is spelled out from Russound... Not saying it was wrong, just curious why you didn't consider that path?[/quote']You realize the post you quoted is more than 5.5 years old, right?Things have changed a lot since then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahn Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 haha...sorry i didnt even look....!! my mistake.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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