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Thank you guys for the feedback!

I have an older component matrix that is still serving me well, but I'm going to have issues the next time I need to purchase a TV. Think I'd rather be in front of that then not. Any users of the Leaf LU1082 out there? Is the content limited to just 1 screen at a time? Generally the only time that's important to me is Superbowl Sunday - I always put the game on all my TV's at once. I've read a lot of hit or miss comments about HDMI matrix solutions in general in the past. Not sure if that has all been worked out, people have just accepted it, or people are not including a HDMI matrix in their project these days.

I have not used this in many years. I think that Composer HE's Media import and export is/was broken. Last I tried - I was unable to use Composer HE to successfully complete the following: Import a handful of songs Create a single simple playlist and add some of those songs Export the songs and playlist to an XML file clear the songs and playlist in HE import the songs and playlist from the HE exported XML. HE created a playlist and it had songs in it, but they were not the songs I had placed in the playlist. Once I saw HE could not import it's own export - I stopped looking into it. This issue may be resolved since I last tried. I've switched to the following solution, and I feel it's much better: Use Media Monkey to export M3U playlists, and then run a DLNA media server which will serve up those playlists (I use Twonky Server to do this). Control4 can use those playlists, and it is much easier and faster to update/refresh with the DLNA instead of Control4's terrible media management.

Do you have any motion sensors? If so do you use them in programming? Curious if this works well. I have an old Vista ICM and have programming hooked up to the motion sensors.

This product was abandoned a LONG time ago 2010 to be exact. It's been dead so long even 3rd party services that stepped up after the initial discontinuation have stopped service. The "latest" firmware for this thing is: in2 fusion image_2.8.0 - Tue Dec 30 09:55:28 MST 2008 http://services.in3myhome.com/VistaIcmDiscontinuation.pdf There is no 3.x support for this.

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That would be great. Please let me know.

Thank you very much!

Racking my IO IO Extender V2 (C4-IOXV2) and can't find the rack ears. Anyone have some in a box they are not using?

Sorry to resurrect this old thread. I'm having a similar situation. EA-5 and have a component matrix. Have an HDFury to make the physical connection work. If you were to use the houselogix driver as suggested above - how would go about linking things so you are able to select the EA-5 as the On Screen Device? Nial - how did you end up solving the problem? Any help would be much appreciated.

One of the new devices the "Echo Plus" does reportedly contain a "Smart Home Hub" and contains a zigbee radio in it From their page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075RWFCHB Alexa can control your compatible smart lights, thermostats, locks, garage doors, sprinklers, and more. Set up devices from Philips Hue, GE, Kwikset, and others without the need for a separate hub. Just ask Alexa to discover your connected devices. Right now they are a compliment, they have the budget, user base, and desire to be tightly integrated to the home. I don't think they are a competitor yet, but I think of the whole list of c4 killers above - Amazon has the most potential. If nothing else they have the largest ecosystem of all the other platforms. All the other platforms boast about being the smarthome platform of the future. Amazon is quietly doing it in a non-threatening way.

As promised. This script works for me in 2.5.2. It's attached. There is one line which will need to be edited for anyone using the script. Line 58 contains the following: const CONTROL4PATHROOT = "//192.168.0.211/public/Music Share/Music/MP3/"You should edit this line to point to the place where Control4 has been mapped. For example. My dealer setup a storage item called "music" and music is mapped to \\192.168.0.211\public\Music Share\Music\MP3\ on my system. There may be some better way of fixing this, but this works for me. I tested with my collection of approximately 10k tracks, and approximately 50 playlists. The XML file created was approximately 73 meg, and took my HC-800 about 20-25 minutes to load. My recommendation is to export all tracks and playlists each time. Maintain all data and playlists in MediaMonkey. Partial exports will probably fail miserably as Conrol4 ignores the track ID's written to the file, and assigns a track counter as the ID. i.e. the first song of the first album will have a track ID of 1. Any playlists would have to have prior knowledge if the export was partial. Please let me know if you have questions... but no warranties, etc. It's a freebee. Enjoy. Exportc4_v2x.zip

I looked at it closer. Control4 changed the format of their import/export XML with the transition to 2.x. I know VB Script, so I'll try to modify the script, and upload it once it's working.

Has Control4 changed their Export/Import XML format? It's been a while since I refreshed my library (not sure what version I was running last time I tried), but although the file "loaded" - songs are not in the correct playlists, and things generally seem pretty screwed up. Does anyone know what format the file should be in? I'm running Composer Home 2.5.2 Scott

Have you checked for special characters in the file names? Had my media scanning break when I added WALL·E. The wierd dot in the name broke the scanning for all my media. So, you may want to look at file names of the media you've added since the last time scanning worked. Just an idea

I think it could work, and didn't hit anything I thought was a showstopper, I just never got time to look into it too much more.

Seems like this page could be of assistance: http://www.appzer.de/ipcam_fc_stream_urls.html

Is it possible to use a URL from Blue Iris to integrate a camera into Control4? I know that you can point Blue Iris to a webcam, and Control4 to a webcam, but I was wondering if anyone has pointed Blue Iris to their webcam, and then Control4 to Blue Iris.

Paul, do you have "Network File Storage" setup in Control4? Have you been able to add music to Control4 through Composer? Well, IMO you will need to have your music added to MM with a network share and NOT local drive paths, because you'll be creating a file which will be then imported into Control4. Control4 needs to be able to find the music, and C:\music or whatever local path won't make sense on any machine other than your desktop.

I can tell you my setup, It's been a few years since I set it all up, and I remember having to play around with it. I have all my music physically on the network under the following path: \\192.168.0.211\Music Share\Music\MP3 In Control4, my dealer setup a "Network File Storage" pointing to that same location In Media Monkey, add the music to your library from the exact location as is mapped in Control4 above, don't use a "Mapped Drive". If you've already built your library in Media Monkey, I think Media Monkey has an option to move it to another location, but I'm an IT guy, so I did some direct SQL manipulation. Details on that are here: http://www.nofuture.org.uk/2010/04/18/moving-mediamonkey-to-a-network-drive/ Hope this helps.

For me the script works on 4.06, I created what appears to be a valid XML file that's about 70 meg. I've not tried to import into my 2.2 version yet, but that script executed just fine, and worked great with my 1.73 system previously. I would say 2 important things are to put the script above into the following folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Auto Then, make sure you expand "My Computer" in the left treeview, browse to your music, right click at the top level folder of it, and choose "Export to Control4", you can then select Music and /Or Playlists, and then give it a path.

Can't help you there. I have been using it with much success on 1.7.3

Tim, Thanks for the updated script, and thank you for the information on the import. I assumed by ILoveC4's comments that there may be an easier way. Scott

Media Monkey allows you to create playlists based on any number of criteria (genre, rating, artist, etc). So every time you add more music to media monkey, and rate it, new music will show up in any playlists it fits into. This particular time, I was trying to add (I used import media) 300 mp3's of Christmas music to play on Christmas day. Doing this seemingly wiped out my previous import. All 9000 mp3s disappeared, and all that was shown was the new list I had imported. Only way I could figure to get everything back was to clear out the media, and re-import the media and playlists. Is there a better way to update playlists from MediaMonkey, or be able to import only new music which has been recently updated? Scott