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    Hey cool. Thanks. I actually saw that pop up last night, so I now know where I stand. Cheers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    This is a great driver. Thanks CY! But how do I know I am actually getting HDR with this player.? When I put in a 4K HDR disc and pause it and look at the video stream info on the player it says "HDR" in the top left corner. Does that mean I'm definitely seeing the 4.4.4 HDR on my TV? It's a compatible Sony. But the player is plugged into a "standard", non "enhanced" HDMI port... and I'm connected via a 15m HDMI cable. How do I check this? Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Use a QNAP NAS..... I've shown how to set this up as a media player server that does HDMI straight out of the QNAP.... It's really cool....
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    These guys are my local dealer doing an awesome on-site job for me right now. Thoroughly recommend these guys. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    ^ How much is an upgrade? Thanks
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    Can you leave this up as a free driver for a while Alan (couple months) !!!! Cheers
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    So who are we kidding around here on this miniscule forum? Why would Apple even consider "taking over" Control4? In any case: Who else is going to now ?? If anybody thought it would help their HA cause, they would have done it already..... Thinking about it in the cold hard light of day, I'm kind of getting depressed about the future of our wonderful platform. I sure hope I'm wrong.. but who in their right mind would throw huge amounts of capital into C4 R&D now? (particularly with it's current development and distribution model)???
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    I mean you are talking flee vs elephant stuff here guys.. Control4 market cap = 413 Million. Apple market cap = 541 BILLION (over 1000x bigger) Is not Homekit a brand new SDK? A new communication/network standard? As significant as OSX or iOS was when they were launched. Apple won't be fooling people around with this.. When Apple gets serious about this, and there is no indication they aren't already: The amount of capital and R&D Apple could potentially throw at this is massive.. Bottomless if you think about it.. Apple could spend the entire current market cap of Control4 on this new venture right now, blow the lot, and it wouldn't even be noticed in their end of FY statement at all. It would be a mere unnoticeable blip of a entry on page 191 or whatever ... the markets would yawn....nobody in the financial world would even care.. I'd be surprised if the ticker AAPL would move one bee's dick of a buy/sell spread.. Just sayin...
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    People might think the Apple HA product just announced is "just for the low end"..or "just for the masses"... I wouldn't be so sure about that. What we see now is just the tip of the iceberg I'd reckon.. When it takes off: with everything open source and hundreds and thousands upon hundreds of thousands of apps and drivers being written for it by all those Millions of Apple programming nut's, what makes everyone think it will not be able to cope with *everything* Control4 does right now (and some) AND even compete with *all* HA systems available. High end as well. ?? ... I mean guys. Get your Ostrich heads out of the sand...
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    Either way, it can't be "more of the same" from Control4 though Alan. Surely not ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    ^Yes. Wake up C4. The White Walkers are coming... it's about time you started offering end users a few "sacrificial" babies.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    ^ My 2 cents? Well, Control4 should have done something like this years ago... In many ways, they were way ahead of Apple and the HA field in general. Way ahead and dynamic..... Their wonderful platform has had this capability and similar potential for ages... But they locked distribution down. And have relied too heavily and too long on pretty much entire third party driver development... that is basically dealer based. And dealers think and have different interests from end users. So there becomes a kind of "disconnect". Seems to me, there should be way more end user focused in-house R&D. A while back, in my opinion, they made a *huge* error in judgement going with Flash. So the product continues to suffer..... Development and innovation seems to have ground to a hault, and alas the product from a long time users perspective seems tired and boring even.... It's not that I don't still love this product, I do. It's great. It just seems stagnant. Maybe stagnant is good in HA once in a while... I don't know... But it's not like others as well around here haven't been telling them these sorts of things. We have been trying to give them a "heads up" on this for quite some time.....
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    ^ Thanks for doing this Alan. And all your local support for the Control4 product I don't know what Southern Hemisphere users would do without you Alan!!!
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    Congrats on the new format!!!

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    .... Yes. Perfect would be good :cool:
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    ^ Yes they can get complicated.. You are right. But the EV Sonos driver really is a marvel of software integration.. But I agree.... better to give Sonos control points (ie Zone players) their own separate amps and speaker setups. It starts to get very complicated if you try connecting them thru Home theatre receivers and the like.. This has been a problem with Sonos since day dot. It constantly gets raised on their forum and to this day they have refused to do anything about it...
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    Yes very And as posted - the "proper" way to do this is using....the proper set-up and stop using "original remotes" just like you would for TV. This isn't always full-proof (streaming you phone to an airplay piece comes to mind as you might use that phone outside the system) but it goes a long way. Yes' date=' putting in the hardware you need to do what you want to do is the way to go - and yes that may be more expensive. In the end such is life. You can't expect to cut back on cost and retain the same functionality endlessly. Can C4 "fix" this - possible. Will they - possibly. But if you want this and everything else right now - it would require C4 to poor even more resources into R&D, which would just mean that they would need to raise the prices - so instead of paying for more equipment, you'd just be paying for more expensive equipment. The solution can also come from third-party hardware (yes more/the right hardware) - in fact VideoStorm seems to have been tackling some of these issues with their Netplay device - I'm waiting for my personal piece to come in to test this. Yes, of course all these things get communicated back to C4 - as I said earlier on, you are not the first one, let alone the only one, to come across this - if anything dealers were. Do understand that most dealers have no open, direct line of communication to the engineers that tackle this sort of stuff - our first "contacts" are reps and tech support. But most of us do not sit by idly and ignore issues - if we did, would we even be on here? The dealer "community" as a whole is quite vocal towards C4 through the mediums we do have available. And I think these forums alone are proof enough that we are far from unwilling to communicate back to you what we can.[/quote'] Thanks again Cyk.. It's good to know the message is getting thru (somehow...) I really am grateful for the detailed explanation of the difficulties tackling this issue. It's amazing how what appears to be such a simple problem on the outside, can have such complexity on the inside!!! After your helpful advice I think I'll separate off the Sonos ....and swap to a hardware solution....maybe using a Russound speaker switch.. Appreciate the reply.. Wap
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    ^ ....the silence on this is deafening...
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    ^ So what feedback do all you dealers give back to C4 HQ on this? And what do you hear back from the composer pro programmers as to where this is heading? I ask again. Is it fixable within the programming core of composer pro? Yes? or no? Or do you end up just putting in expensive hardware switching? We can't be the only end customers who notice this....
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    Yeh, me too
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    Ok. So revisiting this issue and my two examples. And how do I set this up in programming. What can I tell the dealer to do within CPro? Example one: I have a Sonos controller connected into a toslink input of a LinnDS combined preamp/poweramp. Both are flawlessly controlled via IP drivers from EV. Except choice of volume. If I select "Listen>LinnDS", then wish to stream music thru the DS, obviously I would want to adjust volume using the DS. If my kid then comes along and selects "Listen>Sonos", then obviously they would want volume control using Sonos. And so on. But it seems this can't be done. Solution? Example two: I have an Oppo 105, and a TV connected into a Yamaha Home theatre receiver. Oppo and TV control via serial. And Yamaha via IP. Again great C4 control of all three devices. Obviously given the wonderful Audiophile properties of the Oppo105, when I select "Listen>Oppo105", I would want C4 to switch the Oppo to outpu 5.1 analog out and the Receiver to Multichannel in. The If I select "Watch>Oppo105", I would want to switch outputs/inputs to HDMI on the Oppo and HDMI on the receiver. Then If I select "Watch>TV", I want the switch to a different input on the TV (for Tv pictures) and PCM Audio output then switched to the correct input of the receiver. When I want to listen to music via the Oppo again, I need to switch back to Multichannel analog inputs again on the receiver. And so on. The Solution? It seems both these easy to do programming requests just can't be achieved simply and efficiently within the one "Room" on navigator. If this is so, then why am I paying so much money for the worlds greatest Home Automation system? And I truly believe it *is* the worlds greatest HA system... Why haven't control4 programmers sorted this fundamental flaw within Composer Pro?
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    I do not think Control4 is flexible enough on this Issue.. Definitely NOT Particularly as Cyk points out with the myriad of other devices coming out with independent variable audio that are now being synced in with UPnP and IP drivers etc.. The more and more this is achieved via cleaver integrators and independent software designers, the more this fundamental problem with Control4 is going to be exposed... Well if it *is* a fundamental conceptual design issue (as has been pointed out).. ? sure, maybe a throw back from a bygone era of volume and source always via the same endpoint...then OK..I understand why this is... But the key question is, whether this is flexible enough for the future..??? And what Control4 intends to do about it? And can they in fact actually do anything to sort this? My Oppo requirements and Linn/Sonos combo case in point...
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    Thanks ILove... Q/1 Why would you want Sonos variable volume, or ever want to change it? A/ So that the family can still alter Sonos volume *within* the Sonos environment... Yes believe it or not they have not been weened of Sonos direct control... Whilst I can switch back to variable cControl of the Linn preamp when I am streaming direct to Linn... Q/2 Why won't your Solution work? I'll try it, but see A1/ It only sets up volume control one way.... Cheers Wap
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    Thanks for that. But I don't think this will work. You see the problem arises should there be the need for "global" volume control of Sonos. That is via every device. Including existing Sonos controllers. When Sonos is plugged in as a secondary source into another product/amp/receiver whatever that *also* has volume control. (And this would be a very common scenario...). Once you set volume control on that secondary source you are toast with using Sonos volume. Can someone try this themselves for me? I'm going crazy on this one. I can't be the only one who's calling this as an issue....
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    ^BTW.... Is there any way of simply copying the driver within a project? You know right click on it, and copy paste....
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