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2 minutes ago, Amr said:

Is it only me or the local C4 IOS and Android apps are much faster with 3.3?

They are - no longer get any spinning load wheel even from a cold start on iOS.

Anyone know what is new in the updated zigbee firmware?  Zigbee 3.0??

19 minutes ago, Dr. Venkman said:

Does anyone know if the watch app will work if the phone is not present? As in going for a run or a bike ride with the watch (but without the phone) and using it to open the garage upon return?

I just tried it - it works!  Powered off my phone and turned lights on and off.

7 minutes ago, South Africa C4 user said:

6. The single biggest plus for me is that Refresh Navigators just works on the T4s.  My projects got to a certain size recently where I have often had to do a hard reboot after refreshing navigators before the T3s work…

Arn't you running a CA-10?

pretty sure this is a T4, seems a somewhat faster than my T3 - but maybe not as fast as my iPad?
 

1 hour ago, Darin, C4 PM UI said:

Update to 321.40, Intercom in OS 3 for iOS was just released today.

I know what I am trying out tonight!  Thanks for letting us know!

Thank you @C4SouthAfrica- Exactly the kind of commentary I have been hoping for!

Curious to see if anyone has found (or would be willing to post) some demo's of the t3 vs t4?  And maybe a live demo of the chime being answered on a t3/t4 (curious to see PQ, audio quality and any lag, etc.). 
 

I've seen the marketing videos, but interested in real world performance. 

On 8/26/2020 at 6:52 PM, snipboy said:

I'd be curious to see how much life the OP got out of the remote since this post.

Actually still using this one in a guest bedroom - have expanded my C4 system quite a bit since this post.  No problems so far (other than it being dropped and shattering the screen - see here).

2 hours ago, RyanE said:

If I recall correctly, someone posted a repair of a remote that was doing something along these lines, where they opened it up and found that a surface mount capacitor had come off the board.

It's been quite a while, don't know if you'll be able to find it, and if you decide to take the remote apart, it's apparently pretty difficult to do without breaking the plastic tabs that hold the remote together, so you may want a backup remote (or a backup plan!).

RyanE

This one ?

Just thought of another one:

Some way to display more information about the house on screensavers.  so when I’m walking by one, I can quickly glance and get an overview of what’s going on in the house. EG - if an exterior door or window is open, lights on around the house on, AV zones on, etc.  

Maybe more broadly - the ability for developers to build screensavers for the OSD / T3 / T4 interfaces. 

On 9/18/2020 at 3:08 PM, blub said:

Web based control for PC via Browser

On 3/29/2021 at 5:57 PM, zaphod said:

• Web based Navigator.

+1 on these.  Didn't they have something like this back in the 1.7.X days of Control4?  

If only I spoke Italian!  Some videos of the chime and T4!

Would really love a side by side comparison of a T3 and T4 (speed, ergonomics, etc.). 

Unboxing the T4: 

Unboxing Chime: 

Would be cool to have a "Guest Mode" in the Mobile Apps.  So when guests come over, they could download the control4 app and get temporary access to the house (or parts of it).  For example, when family stays over and wants to control things in the guest bedroom from their phone.  Or if you own a short term rental, you could give guests temporary access to the control system while they are staying there - but revoke it when they leave.  

Kind of short but hoping to see more of these types of video “walk throughs” of Chime and T4. 

Mine has disappeared again (it did show this morning after I updated the app) 

On 12/24/2020 at 1:50 AM, South Africa C4 user said:

The third item (T3 screensaver) can be partially achieved via programming. I have mine setup as you have for when media is playing and then I do a photo screen saver if music is not playing and on some screens, I blank them out at night and on one other (near my pool), I have it display the time only (a massive clock) from 6am to 9am so that I can see the time during my morning swim...

Thank you!  I am going to give this a try this weekend!

Merry Christmas!

Anyone know of 3rd party / customer/ dealer reviews or hands on videos of the Chime doorbell or T4?  I think the chime has already shipped (?) - and pretty sure the T4 has not shipped yet, but maybe when it does someone can post one.  

Looking to get a sense of the look and feel (maybe a demo the speed of a t4 compared to a t3, ringing a chime doorbell and how it pops up on the phone / T3, reviewing the snapshot / recording history in the history agent, etc), pros and cons, maybe an unboxing  ?

On 12/4/2020 at 2:31 PM, Cyknight said:

Air Purifier is i think available in the proxy for t-stat already though not implemented. Scheduling is another matter, but not sure why you'd schedule when purification is running or not?

Networking is probably currently possible via HTML (so not mobile app) - would be nice if C4 did this for their own services (BakPak and OVRC), like the idea.

The rest would mainly just be experience buttons, because there is zero unity/consistency in how each one/brand operates it would be nearly impossible to create a proxy that is clean and clear without severely limiting which devices would work with it. Not that I wouldn't love to see it happen.

After re-reading it - agree there is no use for scheduling on an air purifier.  Would be cool to have feedback though.

- Add Thermostat, Security/Alarm System, and history agent to the OSD (e.g. when watching TV at night, sometimes its easier to pull up that interface vs go to a T3, pull out my phone, etc.)
- Update history agent to track lights on / lights off, TV on / Off, Thermostat events - not sure if this requires a history agent update or the driver to be written to use the history agent to log this?

- Ability to send a notification to all Navigator UI's.  For example, from my iPhone I want to send a push Notification to all other Mobile devices, OSD/T3/T4 popup, NEEOs, etc. with a message "Dinner's Ready!").  Also would be cool to have the ability for the T3/T4 to chime, have the message text scale to fit the screen size.

- On my T3 Screensaver, I currently have it setup to custom (Time, Temp, Date, Media).  If no media is playing, there is a large section of unused screen real estate, with temp + date + time stacked on one side of the screen.  Would be nice if when no media is playing, it could fill this unused space with the time (and stack temp + date), then when media starts playing - display the cover art + song info and stack the (time + temp + date on one side).

Home Appliance Proxies / Control4 Interfaces
- washer /dryer (see status from a C4 Touchscreen, notifications)
- Coffee Machines (to use as part of a wakeup agent, notification when coffee is done)
- refrigerators (notifications when a water filter needs to be changed, announcement if the door was left open too long or door open and the room has been unoccupied for period of time,  for ability to view / adjust temperature from a the TS)

- Home networking (ability to see wifi clients connected via touchscreen, what WAP they are connected to, program events off of when a device comes online/offline, when a networking device falls online, etc.)
- Irrigation (ability to see / modify schedule from C4 to tie in with other events, could be cool when a camera pops up to have an irrigation zone toggle displayed for zone(s) that camera can see - kind of like how the lights / door lock work when a doorbell rings).

- Air purifier (tie the on/off into a scheduler, notifications of bad air quality / change filter, etc.)

I realize this is probably dependent on a manufacturer providing an api to these devices, but having a control4 proxy interface designed for these use cases would cool.  To me, the convenience of being able to bring this all into a single app vs disparate apps with varying levels of control / usability, having to setup each app on every family members device, etc. is why its on my wishlist.  

Found an interesting video of the T4 - notice its running some stock android launcher vs the C4 app.

9 minutes ago, jfh said:

T4s are a tough sale at those prices.  I’m sure I’ll get at least one but I’d replace all my screens if they were closer to $500-$600.  But C4 corporate profit, dealer profit, tarriffs on Chinese made products, low volumes make that a dream.

I was thinking this too.  Too bad they don’t have a trade in to bring the cost down. 

Interested in the Chime, but haven’t seen a price yet. I was ready to upgrade my 6 T3s because they are becoming noticeably sluggish, but the price of the T4 (x6) turned me off.