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  1. They work well if you just need a small strip but if you are doing long strips Hue becomes very expensive compared to generic strips and controllers.
  2. There is a driver for Lux or Magic Home lighting. You can buy these Wifi controllers cheaply on Amazon and use generic RGB or RGBW 5050 strips.
  3. They developed Windows Services for Linux(WSL) which evolved out of Services for Unix (SFU) that began in 1999. So that has been around for quite a while and has had resources thrown behind it. WSA seemed like a natural extension of that. It also seemed like running Android apps on Windows was a response to Macs being able to run iOS apps. Now it looks like we will have to go back to Bluestacks to run the C4 app on Windows machines.
  4. This sucks. Hopefully there will be alternatives. It doesn't make sense for MS to have developed WSA and then not have a way to install apps. Can you sideload an Android app in Win11's WSA?
  5. It seemed to me that RATGDO really took off when Chamberlain integration was removed or disabled from Home Assistant late last year. See https://community.home-assistant.io/t/the-current-state-of-myq-from-the-codeowner/630623 Or https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq-integration/
  6. But those connectors were standard relay contacts back in the day. My garage has a hard wired switch on my 2011 Chamberlain opener that just closes the connection.
  7. I have a Chamberlain opener from 2011 and it can be opened by a dumb push button switch or by shorting the wires with a relay.
  8. Didn't Chamberlain also make it hard to use a simple relay on their openers. Older openers can be controlled with a relay, but didn't they change that on newer openers? What could be the motivation for that, other than trying to collect rents from third parties.
  9. Haven't they blocked drivers in the past because the API was unsupported? I seem to remember a C4 Tesla driver that suffered this fate and I do know that the Tesla API is unsupported and unofficial, at least from Tesla's perspective.
  10. What does that notice from C4 mean? Is this driver from Intrinsic certified by both C4 and Chamberlain? I am confused by the C4/ Snap One announcement which seems to be inconsistent with the Intrinsic Dev post at the start of this thread.
  11. My system was put in about 15 years ago. My dealer wasn't very good and I didn't understand the limitations of the dealer model. Some folks have bad experiences because their dealers are not very good. Others don't like the fact that they need a dealer to add hardware to your system and do some types of programming. And they may not have thought about the fact that they will have to replace a bunch of the hardware every 7 years or so.
  12. Do you have to be added to a system? Or can you just use the dial and buttons on that old map to map an RCA input to a speaker output zone, and to control the volume? It would be awkward and painful, but wouldn't it work?
  13. They (Snap One) have actually yet to make money. Looking at the publicly available Inc Statement from 2019-22 they lost from 9 to 34 M per year, although they might have made money in 2023 - they haven't released results yet - Mar 14 is when they release results. Revenue is pretty flat over the last 3 years at about $1B per year.
  14. Lifetime license fees are not a sustainable business model over the long run. We have seen that with apps or other software. Everything is moving to a subscription model, both because the economics work better for valuing the company, and it makes for a more sustainable business. Especially if growth levels out and the company isn't acquiring a lot of new customers, but still has a large installed user base. One would hope that with an annual license fee that C4 would be less incentivized to EOL their hardware. In the past how would they make revenue from existing customers? To do that they had to sell more hardware and one way was to make them drop $10k on new controllers every 5-10 years - not that I am saying that they did this on purpose. Even think of Apple today, they are trying to purchase their service revenue because the market for phones isn't really growing, new phones are generally replacing existing phones. So they are trying to grow services like music, video streaming, news, games, fitness, etc.
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