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I don’t assume that everyone wants this but that a lot of people would. Looks like Apple Music is 13% of music streaming market share which is lower than I expected. Spotify is over 30. Current integration with SharePlay is kludgy but I still refuse to subscribe to another service. Apple is getting beat up pretty good right now over their closed systems for apps and purchases and iMessage. I’m hopeful but not optimistic that this starts to open the door to being more open with Apple Music. Snap’s market cap is currently lower than what they paid for Control4. Through that lens, I don’t see them picking a battle with Apple or anyone else right now.

+1 for Watchlight/Alarmrelay. Been using them for 15+yrs. Can’t beat the pricing and service/support is great.

Seems like there have been a lot of outages for remote connectivity as of late. Has this been unusually high or am I just noticing more because I subscribed to the notifications? Also, maintenance windows at 9:30 ET on a weekday? Is snap at the mercy of a vendor on these or is that just a convenient time at the end of the day in salt lake? I’m in IT and we run outages middle of the night to limit impact. For a product with this large of a customer base, that timing just seems terrible…

I’ve used these guys for 15 years or so for central station and have been very happy. $9-10 a month for landline monitoring. I think it’s closer to $14-15 for internet based. https://alarmrelay.com/pricing/

Is the parity set to “odd” on the ip2sl? I get this behavior any time I lose power on the global cache and have to go back to the settings and flip from even to odd.

Thanks for the tip! This resolved my issues with viewing cams in the iOS app. Can now create a cam based on a group to view multiple streams at once.

Good find. I’ll update my driver tonight. Based on the change log it looks like the issue was something related to dates in June and July which lines up with the timing of my issue. Thanks! Version 114 Fix a date/time bug that shows up in June and July.

no Homebridge for me.

So I made 2 changes and have been beepless for the last 30 mins. Finger crossed that it holds. There's a setting in the driver.xml for the superbus driver called <can_set_time>true</can_set_time>. I updated this to false, updated the driver and rebooted the controller a couple times. This by itself didn't seem to address the issue. In the composer driver settings, I updated the partition 1 "default user code" to blank and hit "set". Not sure why I had a code in there, I use quick arm and enter a code to disarm. After that setting change, I have not had any additional beeps. Fingers crossed and hopefully this helps others.

I was able to set a debug log on the superbus driver and this seems to be what's happening when the beep occurs: Resync flag set. Do a resync now... TimeDate:SetTimeDate 2020.06.04 14:15:03 Received ACK OnTimeDateTimer Not in programming mode yet TimeDate Retries Exceeded Received ACK Every few seconds in ready mode, it throws the below message about the Panel date and system date. Then looks to be hitting an issue with retrying to many times. Panel reported date doesn't match system date. Trigger a Resync... Attaching a bigger set of the log. The line "!!!!!! Zone 3 CLOSED !!!!!!" is where I closed the open zone and it went to ready mode. c4_superbus_log.txt

I use a different monitoring company. No events show on the keypad or in the panel event history when this occurs. If the system is in ready status, it’s just the single tone but it reoccurs every 3 mins. If it’s armed, the tone happens once and also asks for code to be entered, then doesn’t happen again. We are also heavy users of arming and disarming via C4 and would rather not disconnect the automation. I’ve been leaving a less vulnerable zone open when we are disarmed to avoid the beeping. So far I’ve tried resync’ing the driver to the controller and rebooting the controller to no avail. I also removed a couple c4 zones that are no longer on the panel, but have never been an issue. Rebooted again, but still have the beep. I also use an ip2sl for C4 serial connectivity.

We’ve been getting a single keypad chime every 3 minutes from our interlogix concord4 panels when the system is disarmed in ready mode. I’ve been researching with our monitoring company but when they reached out to interlogix for support, they indicated a recent Control4 update may have led to this. Has anyone encountered this and have any additional information? Also wondering if there’s a log I can check to see if any controller or driver updates have been pushed. This started on the morning of 6/1. My next step is to disconnect the superbus automation module to see if I can isolate it to the module/control 4 but thought I’d see if anyone had any information before I go down that path.

It’s been a while since I’ve dug into this but I think you can set up a second camera for each camera in BI with just the sub stream and then reference that secondary camera in Control4.

I have a 690. It looks like it is mqtt, but I’m not positive. I’d be interested in testing it out to see if it works.

Does anyone know if an IP driver for the X1 boxes was ever released? There was a thread late last year but I didn't ever see anything about a driver released. Maybe it's just for the newer integrator boxes? I thought maybe there would be an update coming out of CEDIA, but haven't seen anything. Did Comcast announce this and then go dark on it like they did for their Samsung app?