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  1. I picked up a trial of this driver yesterday but noticed that you can only use this with device variables, not the variables you set yourself with the variables agent. Is there any plans to add this functionality?
  2. Members, I have a Samsung Terrace tv on an outdoor deck, this deck already had two L/R speakers in optimal spot for tv audio that was used for music. This speakers are wired into the Analog audio amp/matrix combo. I ran a 3.5mm stereo cable from the TV to the input on the matrix, and connected it via AV Path Setter driver. I do get audio off the tv into the speakers for some things (running an android tv source). But things like Plex continue to pass digital over my 3.5mm i think? and because the amp cannot decode it, i'll get like Left/Right channels, but i don't get a center channel, so I have no voice. I turned passthrough off, and I modified all settings on the android tv box to not use surround. Is there anything I can do to pass only LPCM over my audio out? Unsure if this setting is on my android tv box, my tv itself etc. Does anyone have a similar config? I really don't want to force a dedicated soundbar for this when the speakers are already fit in a nice spot.
  3. Your issue here is not on the surge suppression on the high voltage (power lines) its on the low voltage. Once the surge is in your house, it can run up cat5/network/hdmi and any other low voltage you have. You need to find a way to keep the surge outside of your house, or protect any low voltage lines that leave your house or run near/parallel to high voltage lines that leave the house. There are whole home surge solutions, as well as methods to properly ground and protect low voltage applications. this is a pretty big problem that doesn't get talked about a lot. I've lost a lot of equipment like this too.
  4. Hey, that's pretty cool, I was not aware of this driver, thank you.
  5. The TV DOES have audio out, we used to run this configuration in the past, but there were some problems with it in C4. I.E if multiple tvs are connected to matrix with TV OUT, Control4 wasn't intelligently linking that particular tv's output to that room, this may have been fixed (this was years ago). the scenario was something along these lines. TV 1, 2, and 3 are all wired on audio out back to matrix. TV 3 is watching Source 1, but the speakers in the room with TV 3 are being fed by the audio out from TV 1 or 2 (because those are considered viable paths), however if TV 1 or 2 are not on, or on any other source, everything broke down. If i use the audio out directly to a dedicated amp for yard speakers, that could work (no matrix switching) but then i can't bring in music audio easily.
  6. Thank you, that is helpful. Assume you are using some type of digital-analog convertor, to pull the audio out of the hdmi cable and pipe it into your existing analog amp. Does this not create any sync/delay issues for you? Any idea where one you're using? Another thing i didn't put in my post up above, but there is still a requirement/need to be able to route music through these speakers, so if we do use a dedicated amp model, we'd need to be able to get a 2nd input into that amp from our matrix to access the standard music sources.
  7. What type of configuration are people using to bring Outdoor TV Audio to landscape speakers. Assuming that traditional landscape speakers are in place, and wired appropriately, how are you pulling the audio off the tv? Prior to the smart tv generation, we would pull audio off the source, and run it through a matrix into the standard amp and then through the speakers. But this only works if the source physically exists separate from the tv, and has separate audio outputs. We are running into the following problems (not at the same time) 1. The TV is a smart tv, client is using apps on the smart tv, so we need to get audio off the tv, and into our amp. 2.The source no longer has audio out, so we cannot get it into our amp (cable boxes, etc) 3. We can get the audio out of the source or tv, but only in digital, and all these landscape amp setups are analog. We can convert, but then there are sync issues. Is there a product on the market we are missing here? a small dedicated amp specifically for this, that potentially could take a digital signal without creating a sync lag?
  8. i also use a similar configuration, i use the vera hub that looks like a leaf (green top, white bottom) available on ebay fairly cheap, it uses a very old firmware and i never upgraded, c4 database driver works fine.
  9. I know I'm a bit late to the race here, but I've been playing with and testing this driver for a few weeks now and have some feedback that may answer some questions and may help. - with the zank (advanced) mode this driver works very well, very fast, no noticable difference for me between irusb and this driver, so that is pretty sweet, and if latency was a concern i wouldn't really worry about that going in. - this driver supports mini-apps, but only its own mini-app library, it is not compatible with the universal miniapps (of which C4 has released 100's int he last few months) . It is possible to create your own custom miniapp so that isn't bad, if there is something missing, you can create your own with a bit of elbow grease. - this driver does not support passthrough mode. (hiding the core device behind the app name in the remote/navigator menus) - this driver supplies a standard android keymap, but only lets you configure the usage of the 4 colored buttons. If you wanted to re-map guide, or info, or menu or anything, that wouldn't be possible without a 3rd party app on the device itself. Overall the zank app was easy to find and very accessible. the whole experience was very painless.
  10. I've had no issues with this fan/driver combination since my original post, that being said, it is used in a room that doesn't get a ton of usage. so ymmv
  11. yeah i understand that, in spots where we wanted art, we bought art, the tv was a purchase because of the aesthetic of the frame and the location its in, i regret the purchase haha
  12. not a different opinion, its just that i'm an installer so i can't like willingly break code there... if its in your own house, i don't thinkt here is a massive risk there. art mode just isn't for us, maybe because the tv is in a bedroom, so it doesn't have a lot of foot traffic, or maybe we just aren't into it.
  13. a few things, versabox is fine, but any flushmount box would work. i have a samsung frame, for the money, i do not think it was worth it, its a clean look, i never use the art mode. one thing you should consider is that the samsung frame (atleast the one i have) is a one connect single cable device, which means you need a giant box connected to the tv, this cable is not wall rated, so you need to hide that giant one connect box behind the tv, and it DOES NOT fit in a standard versabox, snapav have released an extra large versabox specifically to fit this device in it (i do not have this, and endeed up cutting a giant hole in my box) hope this helps
  14. malelan

    Josh Ai

    yes, correct, this is handled on the control4 end. as long as the sonos device is available to every room in control4, it will be intelligently routed when the command goes through josh.
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