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I mean if the power is lost at your house that is basically what happens. If the device can be turned off I would use the power button to gracefully power down (ie your router ea5 ect). But to shut down switches and such yes hit the breaker. It is essentially a power switch in series with the circuit.
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I understand what you mean, but the answer is ui and remotes. My 3and 5 yo even know how to use the remotes to get to their apps to watch shows, use the sliders on a device to changes lights. I’ve had C4 for a long time and it has been rock solid. I love the system and it has great acceptance for daily use. That being said I love to tinker and have “wasted” thousands over the years on drivers. Extra Vegetables, Plex, IFTTT etc. chowmain has excellent drivers and I would recommend anything he puts out and still rely on the tcp driver. Plex has died since they changed the api, ifttt has become pointless with local control, and many of the drivers I bought are now included. Home assistant let’s me play with ideas without purchasing drivers. As a business I can’t see home assistant being a viable solution due to the frequent updates and breaking changes, but as a techy homeowner it is amazing.
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I have been reading some of these posts and wanted to throw my solution in the ring. I have set up home assistant as the ultimate do all “driver” for c4. I use chowmain’s tcp driver and some virtual outputs on my elk security system to send info back and forth between the 2 systems.
I have had c4 for over a decade (probably closer sto 15 yrs at this point). All my a/v, lights, security is c4 and touching it would not have any wife approval factor. So why do I use home assistant? Well the wife and kids still use all the controls they are comfortable with: remotes, phones, switches, etc. Home assistant can do more backend things that don’t need interaction such as;1). People tracking. It works with phones to know where people are
2) Alexa AND Apple HomeKit integration
3) use of better cheaper sensors. I love aqara sensors. I have their tiny motion sensors and mmWave sensors all over my house. But any zigbee 3.0 sensors work
4) Tesla integration
5) sleep number bed integration
6) I have a bunch more that are sort of there but 3 kids they are waiting to be done, including ESPN fav team notification and the big one 2 way notifications. Be able to interact with the system through push notification. Ex. Left your house and lights are on? Get a push notification and it asks if you want to cut them off (Done through Home Assistant but can control c4 through a simple tcp command sent to chowmains driver)
pretty much any thing you can think of that has a home assistant integration can be added for FREE. I run my HA in a virtual machine so the cost to set up was a zigbee dongle and cost of sensors which is 10-20 bucks each off Amazon
i do some programming in node red on Home Assistant side because I like it more for complex programming. For example I have 2 mmWave sensors and 3 ir motion sensors in my kitchen and Florida room. They form a motion group. If motion is not detected in the group for 5 mins. It stores the current scene and turns out the lights. If you enter the rooms within 2 hours the saved scene comes back on. After 2 hours it defaults to a scene based on time of day. If you manually turn off a light it disable motion for a few mins to prevent turning lights back on. Home assistant has a driver for control4 lights so it can all easily be done in node red. Also the flow makes it much easier to group all these steps in one visual pane.
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Yes I am having the same issue. It has worked perfectly for 3 years now I am needing to restart every few days. I bought pushover on phone and it is receiving commands. C4 is not registering receiving these messages
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I do not have a solution but I have noticed that if I add lights to the Alexa app it adds the wrong light. (I check desk lamp and hit save and it adds middle pendant light). So my guess is Alexa has updated something and broken the function
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No 3.0 and above needs a second gen or greater
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woot is selling gen 1 right now. I have 2 echo and 1 echo dot that are first gen that I am willing to sell
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Its $5 for a independent program. Suck it up buttercup.
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Have you sold the lock?
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For my exterior landscape lighting I used a c4 outlet switch and did programming based on time. Then had binding so the another switch could control them from the living room. The other option would be a on/off switch if you want it hard wired.
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Just in case anyone needed a solution (I know this is an old post) Windows 10 had same issues. Right click, properties, select compatibility mode windows 7 and run as administrator. Got past the errors for me
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I would like to use this driver to track both my phone and my wife’s phone. She is not happy lights come on as I arrive home at night and they don’t for her. She has her own ifttt account. Would I want a second copy of the c4 driver in the project or can I tie 2 ifttt accounts to 1 pushover account
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I have spent 3 days struggling to get the mini drivers working just to discover that I was on the driver I downloaded from 3/11 and the qlaunch in the latest solved all my problems for custom apps. Laughing and crying into my coffee right now.
VTX 100 video storm and HEOS superlink
in For Sale
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I have a vtx 100 for sale =$500
I bought it to do up streaming but ended up using media boxes with apps and never really used it. It is powered up and works but haven’t streamed any devices through it in several years.
https://www.video-storm.com/proddetail.php?prod=VTX100
HEOS Super Link= $975
Also selling the HEOS super link. It is functional and works. Going different direction with audio inputs as well.
If interested and need any additional pics or more information just let me know.