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I use zappiti at my house with a HC800.  I have 2 dune players.  Works awesome.

^Yes. Wake up C4. The White Walkers are coming... it's about time you started offering end users a few "sacrificial" babies....
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The current KODI windows release has a few issues that they are addressing (see their website for details). It should be resolved when they release KODI 14.2 shortly.
Alternatively if you want our driver can programmatically reboot your machine. Mine is setup to shutdown the machine on security arm and boot on security disarm and as such save the idle power during my time away from home.

Our kodi driver can help automate reboots if you want it to do so. For example my house automatically shuts down my main kodi HTPC when I arm my house. It will automatically turn it back on again when I disarm my house.
It also does it at scheduled times of 3am shutdown and 8am startup.
I do this to save a bit of energy for the times I know that my family will never be using the system.
Alternatively if you have a fast boot system then control4 can automatically turn it on and off every time you use it. Personally I don't want to wait 30 seconds to a minute to use the system so not for me.

I have been testing this driver for Alan for the last few days - its the best XBMC/Kodi driver.  HANDS DOWN.  Only Alan could rewrite his old Recluse driver and make it even better.  Some key features for me:
-Reconnect after reboot without having to shut the room off and back on
-Auto off/on when sensing audio/video
 
If you are using any other drivers for XBMC this is worth the upgrade.

There is no time restriction on this driver. Will be up on our website forever for free.

HI guys,
 
To celebrate our partnership with Houselogix ( are giving away a FREE Ping driver.
This FREE ping driver (unlike the ping driver on the Control4 online database) performs a real ping on any device/service IP address or hostname and returns the results as a variable (percent loss) and also fires one of three events
Device OK (0% loss) Device Intermittent (anything between) Device Offline (100% loss) Upon receiving these event notifications you can program the system to power cycle the device connected via IP controlled outlets (like the Belkin WeMo or APC PDU's) to bring them back to life.
Note this driver will only work on OS versions 2.6 up and can be downloaded from our website.

^ 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.....

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... 

HUGE THREAT!  
 
This is what I was talking about when the thread I posted about the Internet of Things and giving Composer Pro to end users (or at least access) blew up to high heaven.  Control4 is so slow to the draw here....  While Control4 allows you to use existing products to integrate a home, just think of all these partners that will scrambling to put a zigbee chip in their products to allow the iHome to control it.  Then it's easy as pie , end user defined, "if this then that" crap.  When I get home based on Geofencing open my Chamberlain Garage door with Zigbee chip, turn on my Cree lights with a Zigbee chip in the living room, turn on my Panasonic LED TV with Zigbee Chip, change the channel on the Roku, change the color of the lights to Purple, etc., etc.  There will be a scheduler for activities to kick off on a timer, etc.  I'm sure they will have IR and Harmony will be part of this too.  Using Siri is just icing....
 
This is BOON to Apple - they get licensing from all their device partners and all these lemmings will go out and purchase over time all of these devices and integrate them.  They have a 90 billion dollar ecosystem built around their Tablets and Phones.
 
I'm a loyal Control4 customer, but let's get real here - this isn't difficult stuff IF you have the ecosystem and a lot of cash.  There are already so many Internet Enabled Devices and it's gets larger by the minute.  
 
To address the complexity of Home Automation - let's face it - if the devices are already iHome ready, why would you have complexity?  No need for an Apple Genius to "walk you through home automation" no more than walking you through setting up a printer that is wireless.  Plug in the printer and look for it in the Add Devices area.  Home automation is no different.  Plug the cree light in and it appears in your interface and is available for you to define when and what it does.  The complexity only comes in with legacy products or products that aren't "integrated".  This can go on and on, but think of it - dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, dryers, projectors, microwaves, waffle maker, popcorn machines, irrigation, security, lights (especially RGB LED's), landscape lighting, and so on....   You will build your Connected Home over time, which is what Apple will bet on.  The 20 year old's will eat this stuff up and in 10 years -  home automation is commonplace and Control4, Crestron, etc. are all out of business except for servicing their existing customer base, as it dies a slow death.  
 
The saddest part of this, is that Microsoft had all this embedded stuff years ago and couldn't get it right.  Admittedly, the market had to mature, but they didn't make the right investments at the time and they certainly don't have the ecosystem that Apple has built.  Control4 was on it's way with the Pioneer Receivers being Control4 ready - but they just don't have the market muscle to go out and get people jumping on as quickly as Apple does.
 
Trust me - I hate Apple, but this will succeed and even the "dumb as rocks" will have DIY, self-sufficient, Home Automation.  I hate to say it, but at that point I would see nothing that Control4 would give me that Apple wouldn't already have.  
 
I hope that Google has something up it's sleeve - they didn't spend 3.2B for a thermostat.  

^Yes. Wake up C4. The White Walkers are coming... it's about time you started offering end users a few "sacrificial" babies....
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From my understanding it will be unified under a singular app plus integration to siri. I see this as apple's attempt to take on technology such as UPnP (think Belkin's WeMo app and devices).  For most people this will be a great introduction to home automation.  Having said that though it'll be more like a universal remote for your home rather than a more automated experience. Either way i think this is a great step forward for mass market home automation especially in terms of a unified protocol for devices.  Home Kit actually falls inline with what apple does best.  Keeping it simple.  By elimating complexities of a always on hub and by making an app that talks to devices 1 to 1 they can ensure that it will always work with little to no tech experience required.  Basically this is a apple's expansion of what Belkin does with its WeMo app.
 
Hopefully this protocol will be available for integration with other non Apple systems such as Control4, Crestron, AMX, Savant, etc.  This will make integration to products extremely easily.  It will also mean alot more products that are more affordable.
 
Will it eliminate Control4 and other existing automation systems? Heck no.  Will it make people understand what home automation is so that i don't need to explain what i do for a living? YES!

I'd say C4 just got an ice pick stuck into the base of its skull!

^ 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.....