Cyknight

-1 Yes, though if the Nest is in away mode, you first have to get it out of there (which is by the way the one command the NEST WILL accept in away mode)

-2 Hm. Well yes it does, but to be honest I'm unsure if you can program off of it.

-3 No

-4 No

Vantage is fine for lighting only. Better than Control4, not really IMHO though they obviously have a longer track record in Panels. Not worse though.

Depending on wiring you could just do vantage panels, then use the keypad locations to put in C4's wireless keypads creating both zigbe and better integration into C4 if that is what you want. You'll end up more expensive though - you're doing things twice

Outside of lighting/hvac/relay control Vantage pales besides c4 - it seems to treat A/V as peripheral products that they don't truly care to deal with.

If there are to be apps - assume it will NOT be anything like google play. It's running on an android OS but that in NO WAY means it running what you're seeing on your phone.

I don't disagree and suspect we'll see some of that. Apps....I'm the least certain of - though I'm also not CERTAIN it won't come.

We'll see them someday...maybe...or not

There is no need to use the RTSP protocol, FORGET IT EXISTS in regards to Control4 - you need to setup the camera for mjpeg and/or h264 streaming.

RTSP is a protocol for establishing videostreaming sessions - not an actual 'stream' of video or a video codex. Thus there would never be a 'driver' for RTSP stream - but as mentioned above there ARE generic drivers that can capture many streams.

The 'playing' is done by a controller.

The music for direct use shows up under 'my music' on an interface.

To do what you want you'd have to create a room, have that amp driver be the room endpoint (it's possible to do this without by the way as a controller can be an endpoint if desired, still needs that setting done though!)

Then yes you can program that, you'd go

room->play stored media->song/disk/playlist however you'd want to do it.

Would I still need a driver if I don't want to control anything on the amp? If I just want to feed it an audio signal through the RCA?

Also, I didn't put the path anywhere, that is the path to where I copied an mp3. Is there a network share path driver?

Yes and Yes.

For the first - the system needs to be 'aware' that there is a location to send something to.

For the second, the system needs to be 'aware' there's a place to send something from.

The big issue that they potentially heavily bog down controllers. Timers are much safer options than WHILE statements. Plus Timers can be 'manually' stopped if required with a custom button, schedule et al.

Examples of issues:

WHILE light is ON

...and then that light senses an overload and goes into protection. You'll have NO way of remotely cutting the loop.

WHILE TV current input is...

someone manually changes the input...

Careful use can be fine, but there are perfectly good alternatives available for almost ANY situation - using timers, start/stop commands vs pulse and so-on.

Even something like

WHILE security is in alarm state

toggle light

delay 1 second

Why bother? Just do

WHEN security goes to alarm state

Start 1 second timer

When 1 second timer expires

When security alarm state cleared

Stop timer

Yes that's more lines, HOWEVER that WHILE statement is VERY likely to have created a back-log in the system and will likely continue to toggle the light for several seconds, in somne cases several minutes or even longer.

Even on your motion, the WHILE statement is sending constant light on traffic across the ZigBee mesh - both from the motion potentiatlly, but for sure the light.

Using timers there only sends occasional traffic - basically only once when you turn the light on, and once when you turn it off.

I won't say it's WRONG to use WHILE statements, but it should be used with caution if at all. The alternatives, while a few extra lines of code, are often simply better.

Because (I'm assuming based on the registration question!) its the MAIN controller you're talking about - without that identified, there's no system to log into.

If this isn't the main controller - my apologies - then yes it can certainly be done. Though in that case there'd be no need to register either.

Apart from anything else - identification of the main controller unfortunately Has to be done on-site. VPN offers some ability there if available.

Find Neil in the user list and send him a Pm, he may have the setup for it - I'm quite literally stuck on a jobsite for the foreseeable future

Yes, the controller needs to be identified before it can be registered, yes Pro is required for ID, yes you can do registration from HE.

Figured I'd post this:

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I'm assuming it's the same Audio Obsessions

Should be fine, though I dislike running the exact amount of conductors I need. Plus you might end up considering wanting to get RGBW (needing 5 conductors) - RGB set to white tends to, well not be really white.

Any microphone that you can in some way output line-level 'could' be plugged into a matrix or amp, and programming on a button done to switch desired zones to that input.

While a great driver, this still isn't a live voice broadcast.

Nope.

The Enttec I can confirm (or DMXking eDMX with the same driver ) you can.

Or, if you only want on/off on the white, use a relay for the white to begin with - free drivers are available to have it show as a light.

Be careful assuming. Many RGBW strips have a shared +12v across all four which potentially you can't use two seperate decoders (will depend on the decoders, hoe they are powred etc).

Also make sure if you have a 4channel decoder that it is in fact 4 true channels, I've had several where the 4th channel is not a true connected channel (even though it had connectors!!!) but the 4th channel is a master channel for overal brightness.

Personally I prefer using a standard RGB decoder and putting white with blue (or any color) on a relay - blue out from decoder to COM, NO/NC to White/Blue. This works fine with the EV driver (as it allows channel setting and having channels nrs more than once) - I cannot say if it works on the one this thread refers to.

Note - does require some added programming of course to switch the relay and force virtual master channels to go to 100% on turning on (if you use it).

Or set up a temporary user for them.

I tested this, and email from C4 is withing seconds of triggering alarm. Unless I'm durned lucky in my timing...

But those icy feet!

I'd say the API Nest brought out is a bit limited and I'm not sure I'd recommend the Nest be used directly due to this - but if the unit's own functionality (self learning, the feel good email every month) is what you want, it integrates quite well for simple control functions.

The lacking point is really that it goes silent when in away mode, so the ability to USE the Nest as a trigger for other purposes is limited at that point (for example, temperature/status reads to control integrate blinds to open/close making better use of the sun/blocking sun heating, a very nice energy savings issue the 'green' Nest doesn't really work for) - including for those that WANT to be able to manually (remotely) manage temperature in the house.

The Nest Protect is not affected by this mind you.

Note that this is purely due to Nest's API (possibly it's internal functionality) - which reminds me that I need to have a little chat with my 'works with Nest' contact.