Cyknight

Sorry to hear you've been told that - it wouldn't hold true as such here though. Because I can tell you I almost never run wires (other than my own house - and boy do I find that I've done it very little lately at the moment), and am rarely involved in installing gear, and even don't do any major wiring at the rack anymore. A good programmer's time is too valuable (in the sense that it's a much more uncommon resource - not so much in monetary value) to spend it on anything but programming and troubleshooting.

No, what it shows is that that was exactly what was happening. An argument you will loose in short order quite frankly. Go tell Apple you want the ability to have access freely to the root OS on any of their products. Understand that I'm actually pretty uncaring on the whole general discussion on who should have access to what, as in don't care one way or the other, except that C4 has a hard enough time to keep tech support running smooth for a dealer only model as it is - thus my belief is that opening it up would be a disaster in that regard (as things stand now).

Understand that I'm not attacking you specifically on this - but what I truly meant is that access to being a developer was closed down upon because people were using it to try backdoor into having PRO. You may think it's not unreasonable to have/pay for PRO after doing education - but the fact is that C4 has shown no intend to have anyone other than dealers have access to PRO - trained or not. Why/reasonability/smart choice/right or wrong aside - you can discuss on here all you want, but that's there standpoint. Just because you want something, doesn't mean you have a 'right' to get it.

And that is where the problem lies...

You won't hear me recommending NEST - and the cloud is one of the reasons. I find them to be mediaocre in gerenal. Not bad, and of course easy to set up as is NEST's true 'strength' - but nothing to get excited about as such.

The driver for the HIKvision is by C4 and in the database. Just set up the cam for wifi, drop in the driver and go for basic use, selecting an alternate camera for intercom is simple too - just a checkbox and dropdown once the cam is in. PLEASE note that even with that you'd still need a touchscreen at either end for intercom (audio) etc - no the touchscreens have no night vision to speak of.

First and foremost - congratulations. Now, I'm not sure what 'monitoring' you speak of with the new touchscreens and IP camera's - the only thing that I can think of (and has been possible with the previous gen) is using a TScreen and it's intercom function AS a baby monitor - in other words, place a touchscreen (potentially a portable one) and set the intercom to a 'monitor' mode. Now as for the cameras - the current SOFTWARE allows you to use a camera OTHER than the T-screen as the intercom camera - BUT audio HAS to come from the screen. So you could get a different/nightvision camera and use that for the video, but any audio functions on it are useless as far as C4 is concerned. "Portable" camera's though are not really in existence that would work well - at least not in a battery operated sense. There's numerous wireless camera's though (as in need a powerplug but talk over WiFi) that can be made to work fine with C4 - HikVision, Dlink and more. One example that I used: http://overseas.hikvision.com/en/Products_accessries.aspx?c_kind=1&c_kind2=2&c_kind3=154&c_kind4=161&id=4919

Fair point, it may well do exactly that.

The agent must be seeing two files or resolution settings. or alternatively it may see 'wrong' resolutions (as normally several sixes are created to accommodate different screens) and therefor 'changes' on your set time.

Curious what version you're on - loop backs to 127.0.0.1 were blocked as of one of the more recent releases, as it caused issues. And to stick with it - while you have cover-art, there is still no disc/song/artist info

Not really. First I'm not so sure you'd be able to 'call' secondary controllers, second because if planned from the start it is entirely possible to have an EA5 (or HC800) as your only and only true controller, supplemented by i/o extenders as needed running a HUGE system. It would also not need to be big as far as rooms etc goes, it will depend on what drivers you have (new c4z drivers with icons take up MUCH more space for example), but also the existing size of your media library (800 CDs and/or DVD is not a large number at all depending on who you're asking.....)

HAH!, then your system must not be all that large, because I was pushing 'room' on mine Happy hunting!

Not just unstable, that memory if memory serves (no pun intended) is used as volatile memory, using it for 'storage' and exterior read access is liable to create issues.

Not just unstable, that memory if memory serves (no pun intended) is used as volatile memory, using it for 'storage' and exterior read access is liable to create issues.

Best way to use screensaver now is to just plug a usb stick in the back of a controller. Best not to use a NAS as it creates a continues access whenever any screensaver is in use.

Didn't say it WAS the proxy, just that it may have to do with the proxy. Alternatively, if it's 'just' a driver, while they've moved away from having lots and lots of driver native to the controllers, it could just be a left-over.

Oh, if it's directly on the controller, it may have more to do with the proxy, not a driver - but don't confuse composer with the controller.

Those are likely just example drivers included in the system, places to work from, and/or learn from. You'll find 'control4' gear in numerous categories for that purpose.

For some the skill will be there, though I dare say many, perhaps most, do not (one could say our company has three programmers, yet I would bet only one of us would be able to do what you did) - but more often it's the problem of time, not curiosity - plus weighing time vs need. And like I said, technically you haven't "solved" the initial issue of this not showing under now playing, the bottom info bar or the media screen saver , though it's a neat way to bypass that, using the pop-up with a url call. Now, on to rewriting the DVD changer driver to the iPod or media player proxy .

Nicely done - though your are essentially bypassing the original goal of having this showing under now playing as well as screensavers media art.

No, 2.8 and up only.

I don't think this is about 'ease'

You aren't understanding how that works the way I believe it does (and again, this is NOT my expertise so it's far from written in stone). The nav decides what to display BASED on the proxy is what I think is the case. In other words, based on the proxy is selects the transport control display vs showing any other info, based on the proxy current media is the device, not other info....

I doubt you will (using the disc changer proxy) - but prove me wrong!

Which I told you would be the problem part Good luck!