AK1 Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Hi,I have a delay of approx. 12 seconds when my front doorbell button is pressed and before any of my programming in my HC300 kicks in:* Agent that displays an image from my front door IP camera on my 7" touch screen* Set the volume on 4 zones to a specific level and then play a 10 second audio file* Toggle 5 light switches twiceI tried incorporating the playback of the audio file in the 4 zones as part of the agent, but it seemed even slower.Any ideas to speed this up? I don't mind that the programming takes several seconds to complete. My issue is the amount of time it takes before anything happens - camera image displayed, light toggle and audio playback.Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 What's your setup? Single controller? Software version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK1 Posted March 4, 2010 Author Share Posted March 4, 2010 What's your setup? Single controller? Software version?Single HC300 version 1.7.3.HC200s on each of the 3 x TVs.About 25 x lighting zones.Integration with DSC security system.5 x C4 thermostats16 channel amp, Avatrix for video distribution, contact/relay extender, C4 matrix switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henniae Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 What's your setup? Single controller? Software version?Single HC300 version 1.7.3.HC200s on each of the 3 x TVs.About 25 x lighting zones.Integration with DSC security system.5 x C4 thermostats16 channel amp' date=' Avatrix for video distribution, contact/relay extender, C4 matrix switch[/quote']Is the HC-300 running Navigator. I.E. does it provide a GUI for any displays. If the HC-300 is not providing a GUI you can disable Navigator. Navigator is one of the biggest resource users on the system net to Director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK1 Posted March 4, 2010 Author Share Posted March 4, 2010 Yes, it is running Navigator. I should have added I have 7" and mini touchscreens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Is your announcement scheduled to come up (as audio or video) on *any* on-screen displays?RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazybuppie Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 If have the announcement running through any zones that are powered by a receiver, then the delay might be coming from the system waiting for the receiver to turn on before it sends the audio from the sound file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK1 Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 Is your announcement scheduled to come up (as audio or video) on *any* on-screen displays?RyanEYes, the announcement displays an image from the front door camera on the 7" touch screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 The 7" is not an on-screen display.The reason I ask, if it displays on an on-screen display (i.e. a TV), the announcement agent waits until the TV has fired up before popping up the announcement, which can cause delays.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhitaker@revit Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 i suspect what ryan does. this delay may have been set for more than one reason, to compensate power on times for devices, to compensate a/v switching time, to allow time for other triggered programming, and "but not the case for you" to allow the 4 zone amp to come out of powersave. there are many possible reasons for the delay. i"m sure your installer weighed all this in. A note to all that read this. for doorbell announcements, the simpler they are the faster they execute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonman56 Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I'm running an HC500 and I have about a 6 second delay from pressing the doorbells before the audio announcement plays. I have no on-screen displays. My dealer has tried everything. No luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tebery Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I have about 4-5 second delay with 2 300's and a 1000. It plays thru 3 zones thru C4 amps and audio matrixs. I was told the delay was due to the digital to analog and the turning on of the zone on the amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK1 Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 I'm running an HC500 and I have about a 6 second delay from pressing the doorbells before the audio announcement plays. I have no on-screen displays. My dealer has tried everything. No luck.I have about 4-5 second delay with 2 300's and a 1000. It plays thru 3 zones thru C4 amps and audio matrixs. I was told the delay was due to the digital to analog and the turning on of the zone on the ampThis is consistent with my own experiences, except mine takes longer possibly since I only have one 3000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmdsmith Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 I'm running an HC500 and I have about a 6 second delay from pressing the doorbells before the audio announcement plays. I have no on-screen displays. My dealer has tried everything. No luck.I have about 4-5 second delay with 2 300's and a 1000. It plays thru 3 zones thru C4 amps and audio matrixs. I was told the delay was due to the digital to analog and the turning on of the zone on the ampThis is consistent with my own experiences' date=' except mine takes longer possibly since I only have one 3000?[/quote']A 3000? That thing must be zooming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK1 Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 I'm running an HC500 and I have about a 6 second delay from pressing the doorbells before the audio announcement plays. I have no on-screen displays. My dealer has tried everything. No luck.I have about 4-5 second delay with 2 300's and a 1000. It plays thru 3 zones thru C4 amps and audio matrixs. I was told the delay was due to the digital to analog and the turning on of the zone on the ampThis is consistent with my own experiences' date=' except mine takes longer possibly since I only have one 3000?[/quote']A 3000? That thing must be zooming. In my desire to speed up the pain fully slow announcement, I must have inadvertently added a 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddyo811 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Has anyone figured out how to speed this up?I too have at least a 5 second delay between the time I hit a button and the time the announcement goes off and the rest of the programming executes.A single Hc300 with navigator running. Will throwing another controller at this make any difference?bdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Yes, it will. Check out the other thread. My delay is about 1 second...maybe less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3fingerbrown Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 how do you all connect your doorbell to the control4 system? What equipment/programming do you use? I have a panasonic doorbell unit that I was planning on hooking up to the phone system, but in the meantime I'd like to hook it up to play an announcement using my control4 amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well_armed Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 You can have that panasonic hooked up to a Card Access switch which will trip the announcment, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Mine's a little more complex because of some additional functionality I wanted, but my man bhadams modified my plans and drew it up for me. They've been modified slightly since this schematic, but you can see it here: http://www.c4forums.com/attachment.php?item=281 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takitezsdc Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Its the C4 Amp............the AMP shuts down when not in use to save power. So when the announcment kicks in, the amp has to turn on and then it does the announcment. I have the older versions of C4 amps and they do not do this. Thus on my system at work......is new amp and does the 6 second bs.Its something C4 did not think about when designing the new AMP!!! bah............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 takitezsdc, is your AMP at work a 4 zone (8 channel)? My understanding is that only the 4 zone (8 channel) amp does this, not the 8 zone (16 channel). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddyo811 Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 Is there anyway to shut off the delay?This is killing me. One other question. When I hit an announcement and it takes 4-5seconds before it plays, if the amp warms up and is ready to go, why does the next announcement take just as long?bdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
control4user007 Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 same delay issues, about 6ish seconds. i have:1.7.4HC-500 (which does provide GUI to tv, but not fired up in the announcement)8 zone AmpDoorbell from Quantometrix2 7" TS (ethernet, and announcement windows sent to both with screenshot from camera)i know that the signal from the doorbell to the HC-500 is instant, because i set it to do something basic for testing (fire an IR code to an IR bud on the tv) and there was NO delay from when i pressed the button and the IR bud lit up red.I did notice that i was able to cut down the delay by a few seconds if i had one announcement for audio(and only 1 zone) and a separate one to send the camera snapshot to TS. not sure why this was, as the TS dont need to be fully turned on as a TV GUI would need to be.still would like to know how i can reduce the delay though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 Having the announcement on the navigator shows it down big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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