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drro reacted to ChzBurger in Savant vs C4
I think that is absolutely the right way to go these days. I inherited my C4 system and replaced C4 lighting with RadioRA 2. I've still got some C4 audio, but Sonos just blows it away from a user and Apple Music perspective. C4 SR-260 is the best remote for anyone with cable, better than the new Halo with keys. Having said all that, other than the TV stuff, using Apple Home is a better experience than the C4 app for control
That's not a bad idea. And probably what they should do with the new Core Lite+ Halo bundle. Some issues: 1) C4 OS 3 is a functional legacy system in the stereotypical bad ways. There's lots of chewing gum and baling wire. Which makes the system tricky to learn and easy to mess up, 2) there are too many paid 3rd party integrations and functionality. Having some is absolutely great, but there are several that really should be built into the system in 2023, 3) proprietary Zigbee is a significant issue limiting device choice. Finally, if one looks at the better existing DIY systems they mostly surpass C4 from a non-AV automation (not control) ability.
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drro got a reaction from wnpublic in Should I stay or should I go?
I’d leave C4 for your use case. It’s not that many light switches. Spend your money installing Lutron Caseta replacements, and you’ll never look back.
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drro reacted to Gary Leeds UK in Sonos S2 and Control4 - any issues?
Just updated to S2 ~ no issues that I can see
we have a Sonos connect which can not be updates on the app ~ however works within C4 ~ winner
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drro got a reaction from Matt Lowe in Composer Home Training Course.
Awesome. Choose a model that gets you paid up front. The audience is not very large, but hugely motivated for a resource like this.
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drro reacted to Matt Lowe in Composer Home Training Course.
My office has started a youtube studio for our products. Since we have the equipment I am looking to invest in the time to creating a composer home training course. To start this will be focused completely for the consumer side and we may do some videos that are dealer specific if it is popular. Just wanted to see whom here may be interested and hopefully I can help you better your own automation and home setup. Below are a few of the topics we are looking to cover. Any suggestions on what you may want us to cover or that i missed? Hope to start filming soon!
Composer Home Walk Through
Announcements
Creating Advanced Light Scene
Using Advanced Lighting Scenes in your project
Keypad Lighting and Feedback
Motion Detection
Panic Button!
Security Light Driver
Camera Navigation Agent
Camera Email and Push notifications
Security System and the Mockupancy Driver
The Power of macros
Customizing Room Navigators
Creating a Favorites room for Navigators
Remote Focus buttons for Neo
Custom buttons for SR260
Door Station Custom Buttons
Room based Programming
Source Selection Programming
Room Control Driver
Plex Driver
Favorite Rooms in the room and on the neo and sr260
Alexa and Google Home Voice Scene Drivers
Alexa and Google Home Routines
Add Music Driver
Source Selection Programming
Timers in depth
PDU Programming
Network Switch Programming
Fireplace Programming
Experience buttons
Dimmer Load setup
Shades
Scheduler
Airplay Driver
Spotify Connect
Pandora and other Music service programming
Programming on Room Off
Irrigation
Christmas Lights
Dlna My Music Driver
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drro reacted to therockhr in Cord cutting question with C4
I have a Dish Hopper and 3 joeys but I wish that Dish would come out with a Roku or Apple TV app that would replace the Joeys and could talk locally to the Hopper.
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drro reacted to South Africa C4 user in Don't deal with BasicUser
Post the chat, don’t post the chat, delete the post, post the chat... make up your mind... 🙄
Then you post a link that we can’t access...
This is the first time I have seen Mitch really irritated and all I can say is that he has given lots of us on this site good service and good advice over the years...
So I draw my own conclusions...
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drro reacted to Cyknight in Ubiquity WiFi speed
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Yeah. No.
https://www.lifewire.com/how-fast-is-a-wifi-network-816543
https://www.speedguide.net/faq/what-is-the-actual-real-life-speed-of-wireless-374
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drro reacted to eggzlot in Time conditionals?
i do that with variables and the scheduler agent. Every day at 9am I would have a variable called XYZ become true, and at 4pm that variable is False.
Then with your button you program
IF variable XYZ is true...
IF variable XYZ is false...
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drro reacted to ILoveC4 in Cord cutting question with C4
I have 7 TV’s, 1 hopper and 1 Joey. This is where video distribution is the bees knees.
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drro reacted to RyanE in New Neeo Remote Setting - Recent Firmware
It's definitely a bug, it's been logged, and hopefully will be fixed in the next drop.
If you exit the digital audio session before selecting a video source, it should not happen.
Valid point that the feature probably should've been default Off. I apologize for that.
As far as new feature notifications, that is also on the roadmap.
RyanE
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drro got a reaction from South Africa C4 user in New Remotes Inbound.....
Sounds like YOU won. Enjoy!
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drro reacted to Thepritch88 in Neeo C4 Remote announcement
I received mine today, so far I love it. It feels great in the hand, a really good quality bit of kit. I only used it for about 10 mins with my apple TV so far and I can already use the transport buttons on the screen without looking at them, I think the soft buttons will bother people a lot less than they think.
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drro reacted to South Africa C4 user in New Remotes Inbound.....
So...I am not sure if you win this bet or I do... I have refrained from buying one so far... but, I just heard today that someone is gifting me one for Christmas (don’t ask... it does probably mean that I spend too much money somewhere!) and I am now as excited as a kid in a candy store because it is going to be an early Christmas gift and I should have it in the next week or so 😁
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drro reacted to ILoveC4 in Neeo C4 Remote announcement
It's really fast - I've never even thought about it because it's so fast. Same with every button press. My biggest feedback is that it's different. I miss some of the hard buttons. I wish I could customize the soft buttons. Some of them you can, but I want to choose which buttons are displayed and where for the Hopper, for example. I don't want to the CC button, but I want the DVR button in a different location and things like that.
Really minor gripes - just when you see a digital screen, you want to be able to choose what is displayed there.
On the flip side, a ton of the hard buttons on my SR250 and SR260 remotes don't get used at all. I do really like that I can choose what is displayed on the "Home Screen" and have one touch access to watch/listen to those devices. All in all I think it's very nice - feels great in the hand and performs well. It's just different.
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drro reacted to chesterwilson in Neeo C4 Remote announcement
You deserve to be on the inside track. You helped a lot of people (myself included) learn about C4 with the forum.
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drro reacted to chopedogg88 in Neeo C4 Remote announcement
Actually I got scared by this thread and changed it to 10 and now I'm sold out and they are backordered. Thanks guys!
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drro reacted to South Africa C4 user in New Remotes Inbound.....
As you’ve not put a timeframe on this... I suspect you will win this bet!
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drro got a reaction from RyanE in New Remotes Inbound.....
That's great, helpful feedback. I would have appreciated hardware DVR and Guide buttons, but I'm excited for this product, even if it isn't perfect. And, the great thing is I now have a choice between this and the original remotes.
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drro got a reaction from South Africa C4 user in New Remotes Inbound.....
I'll put US$5 on you buying (at least) one.
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drro got a reaction from msgreenf in New Remotes Inbound.....
I'll put US$5 on you buying (at least) one.
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drro reacted to ILoveC4 in New Remotes Inbound.....
The two most commonly used buttons at my house are DVR and GUIDE. Those missing will make it a tough sale for my family.
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drro reacted to BraydonH in New Remotes Inbound.....
It really could use a few more buttons that's for sure... Like not even a guide button? I would have definitely thought it would have had a mic too.
I mean it doesn't hurt the product line up but I was hoping for a bit more.