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  1. How would they upset customers on their own system?? I am confused why two people now have read "own system" as freelancing. We are talking about only working on your own system, you bought as a demo, when you used to be a dealer. Plain and simple. Not helping other customers, not purchasing new gear at cost, none of that. Just using your own system. No remote, no giving yourself 4sight, none of that. Just a login for composer.
  2. You could not be taking words more literal. The fact is, in most cases when someone leaves and is looking for just their own personal system, they aren't helping customers. Rent is a loose term. The point is, pay a dealer to access an account for just your system. Obviously some level of trust is required but that is also only because of how pathetic it is that c4 doesnt allow an option for ex-dealers for their own personal systems. I am not talking about giving out 10 licenses. I am talking a pretty unique scenario. And I know that a lot of dealers are not even close to maxed. Look, if I upgrade, buy hardware, etc I will go to a dealer. Fine. That's the cost of having c4, cool. But for the existing equipment, I shouldn't have to pay someone to make some changes that are out of the scope of the home composer. C4 has the ability to heavily limit what you can do with your account. To allow for an "ex-dealers" usertype with a small annual fee, 1 computer composer and no access to pricing or tech, why is that a big deal that actual requires discussion? No one talked about freelancing so I am not sure where that is coming from. I found 5 people that are willing to do what I am asking do that is good. They know I will only ever use it for personal. I will never remote in, I will never give myself a license, or do anything to harm them. It is just one more email on file. This is all pretty simple and I think anyone arguing it is just trying to elevate boredom.
  3. Yeah, since posting this I now have 3 different options at least so I won't lose my system if I leave. It is really too bad that C4 isn't set up to handle this.
  4. What does this have to do with C4 hating? lol This is a legit question for any dealer that may have a career change and is heavily invested. This isn't the normal customer dealer model discussion. The circumstances are very different. I am certified, I am a dealer, I just may not be in the future and I have heard of people signing up former dealers. It also doesn't really break C4 regulations either. If they list me as a dealer, I am certified. It doesn't state they have to have me on payroll. I could "freelance" and only touch my own system. It is a bit of a grey area. I can tell you right now, if I was the owner of a dealer, and someone in my city came to me I would for sure, 100%, allow them a deal login to work on their own system free of charge. I think it is only the fair thing to do, and it is a bit ridiculous that C4 doesn't do this when so many other dealer based model companies DO offer this.
  5. Hey guys, right now I have an active dealer login. I work for a dealer. I am curious what would happen if I leave the company in regards to my own system. C4 has told me to go pound sand to be able to retain my login. Has anyone had any luck reaching out to a dealer to possibly rent a license/dealer login to Composer? It is a very tough thing to wrap your head around, having a system for years and being so heavily invested in C4 (doing the entire thing yourself) to then be stuck in a situation when you have to hire a dealer for retail. Especially, when I am a person that has certified C4 techs in my city come to me for help. It is hard to hire someone, that you know will understand the systems less than you do.
  6. Has anyone set up the bluetooth access with their phones? To auto unlock the door when they arrive at the house with the DS2? It would be cool if the DS2 could sense my phone, and then send the unlock to my Kwikset.
  7. Thanks for this! It worked great. I set up function 2 under automation to 1. Event.keypress key=%1 2. Action.SetOutPut event=1; output=relay1 It works like a charm. Something that was interesting though, is that I have video on my T3 touchscreen ,but on the other touchscreens it says "audio only" I have to figure out what that is all about. Does video not work between the older camera intercoms and the Ds2?
  8. oh awesome! I didn't even know this was a thing! Thanks!
  9. Yeah, this is basically what I have. This all works, I was just hoping there was a better way. It doesn't seem to be flawless with the programming. I am assuming it is network related issues right now while we try and get everything set up. It would just be awesome if the unit by default had a way of triggering the doorbell where you didn't have to do programming controller side to do it.
  10. Sorry guys, I had made a post in technical as well, but I think because of the title it was a bit misleading. Is there anyone out there that has a lot of experience using a standard doorbell with this thing? The only door station, you just simply connected and the call button would press and release the relay automatically without programming. It seems in this door station, that does not occur. So right now, I have it as programming that when the call button is pressed, it will open the relay, and then wait 500 milliseconds and then close it. This gives the most accurate "Ding..... Dong" spacing. However; I am finding that it is very intermittent. Have the time the call button is pressed, nothing happens. I am thinking eventually we will go to an announcement, I have Chow's driver, but while we finish the basement and theater I don't have all sound running. It would be nice to just have a normal door bell for the time being. Does anyone have any ideas? If I am not explaining the programming well, let me know I can post a photo.
  11. Hey Jack stone, I was reading through the 20 pages and can't find anything specific to this so figured I would ask. I am looking into a company here that does LED permeant xmas lights. Right now they are using a Bluetooth controller, and the protocol is SPI not DMX. I do know that you can find DMX in to SPI out controllers though. Each bulb is individually controlled in this system which is pretty cool. I am wondering if you know much about SPI, and if a DMX to SPI controller may work? I can't find anyone using DMX specifically. These guys seem to be the only ones. Thanks in advance.
  12. I had an issue with windows 8. I am not a newb with computers. I am an IT specialist in the microsoft world and I spent a year trying to get windows 8 shares to work with C4. I finally gave up by just using a windows server to link to a share on my Windows 8 machine (now windows 10) and the pointed C4 to the windows server share. So I shared a share basically with windows server and it has been flawless. I second the efforts for FreeNAS. The share I had running on my dell MD1000 / 1850 combo running FreeNAS is flawless. As it stands now though, I just gave up on C4 media. Sonos and Plex control my movies so I can't launch it right from a touchscreen or device, but I bring up navigator on the screen instead, and use the remote, touchpad, device to select what i want to play through the navigator interface and display combination with my plex box or sonos.
  13. Mine has actually been rock solid for quite a while now. I use them every day in my office. The only thing I am not the biggest fan of is the color changing. Right now I don't even have it set up other than a few presets but utilizing a variable n programming I am going to have the up and down buttons work to cycle the "dimmer" so that I can color change 1 at a time.
  14. I would have to agree, after looking around online at different solutions the TCP option seems to be A LOT more stable. I am not sure if it is a limitation of LUA and C4 but the devices do appear to allow for polling the status. The new TCP program that limitless has on their site for downloads allows for an auto discover of the bridge as well as different polling features. SInce using this software on my server and setting a static IP on the device it has been exponentially more stable. Since using this driver, I haven't had the lights work for more than 10 minutes at a time. In the past week, it hasn't gone down once. So far, I think have these lights to where they are extremely stable. I am still only using them as entertainment lighting and they are not the primary light source in any room but I am feeling confident enough with them now that I will be putting 20 of them (2 per sconce) in my home theatre now. I think that some updates to this driver could vastly improve these as a valid option for entertainment lighting in control4. If these continue to work as they have for this week (since making these changes) then they will be JUST as stable as my HUE lights (except these were $14, not $114) edit : Instead of me just bitching about how this could be better, I should thank you for actually taking the time to do this driver when no one else was willing!! Don't get me wrong, if you don't do anything to this driver, cool... but if you do, even better. Thank you for doing this in the first place!!! You rock!
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