shawkyns

Outs or not, I just hope that Josh will be supported by control4 or Snap going forward.  I had this put into my house a year or so ago, and find it really opens the system for use.  My wife was not a huge fan of control4, found it confusing at times.. she loves just being able to tell josh to 'play music in the backyard', or to turn off all the lights in 5 minutes and not have to go to a touchscreen and mess with the hierarchical controls to adjust the 7 thermostats we have in the house.  using alexa or even siri, which we did for a time, is just not the same.

Outs or not, I just hope that Josh will be supported by control4 or Snap going forward.  I had this put into my house a year or so ago, and find it really opens the system for use.  My wife was not a huge fan of control4, found it confusing at times.. she loves just being able to tell josh to 'play music in the backyard', or to turn off all the lights in 5 minutes and not have to go to a touchscreen and mess with the hierarchical controls to adjust the 7 thermostats we have in the house.  using alexa or even siri, which we did for a time, is just not the same.

Outs or not, I just hope that Josh will be supported by control4 or Snap going forward.  I had this put into my house a year or so ago, and find it really opens the system for use.  My wife was not a huge fan of control4, found it confusing at times.. she loves just being able to tell josh to 'play music in the backyard', or to turn off all the lights in 5 minutes and not have to go to a touchscreen and mess with the hierarchical controls to adjust the 7 thermostats we have in the house.  using alexa or even siri, which we did for a time, is just not the same.

Outs or not, I just hope that Josh will be supported by control4 or Snap going forward.  I had this put into my house a year or so ago, and find it really opens the system for use.  My wife was not a huge fan of control4, found it confusing at times.. she loves just being able to tell josh to 'play music in the backyard', or to turn off all the lights in 5 minutes and not have to go to a touchscreen and mess with the hierarchical controls to adjust the 7 thermostats we have in the house.  using alexa or even siri, which we did for a time, is just not the same.

Outs or not, I just hope that Josh will be supported by control4 or Snap going forward.  I had this put into my house a year or so ago, and find it really opens the system for use.  My wife was not a huge fan of control4, found it confusing at times.. she loves just being able to tell josh to 'play music in the backyard', or to turn off all the lights in 5 minutes and not have to go to a touchscreen and mess with the hierarchical controls to adjust the 7 thermostats we have in the house.  using alexa or even siri, which we did for a time, is just not the same.

yes, laserdisc.. I still have a 600 disc collection that has a few things I want to watch every once in awhile.  I still have four players in box in storage for when the one I am using now breaks down.
So, this is going to be my last post on this topic. again thank you to msgreenf for providing the solution to this. and for others who made suggestions.
As for some of the other replies, you know who you are, I really am having a  hard time with your judgmental attitude.  I really hope that you come across better to your customers than you do on these forums.  When I was first considering the smart home route, I had three estimates done before I found my dealer.  I was ready to give up on the whole thing because the dealers who came out were either condescending, took weeks to do a simple estimate, or seemed more interested in having the system work the way they thought it should instead of the way I wanted and needed it to.  Thankfully, I found the dealer I have now, who was referred by a friend at work.. who was willing to accommodate my schedule, and who was willing to listen to what I wanted to be able to do with the system.  Unfortunately he is no longer local, but is still willing to sell me equipment to install and upgrade, and to remote program when I need him to.  Awesome guy, and I wish more of the 'smarthome'' people would be like him.
about two years ago, I had to have new AC installed in my house.  three systems.. long and short is that because of my schedule, I was only able to give them one day to do the work. yes, my work schedule is that bad, and my time commitments are that strenuous.  they did the work, but f###ed up the connection to the thermostats, blowing up two of them when the system was turned on.  These were the old C4 therms, with remote sensing in each room for temp.  AC guys had no clue about the C4 therms, how to troubleshoot them, or how to fix the problem, and recommended I call a C4 dealer.  so here we go, called 5 local dealers to see if I could get somebody out to trouble shoot this problem, and replace the therms.  NOBODY even returned the calls the same day.  frantically called my dealer, who sent me five therms from out of state, overnight, and just talked me through the wiring to get them installed.   turned out two of the old ones were actually 'blown up', with charring on the inside where the wrong connections were made. only needed two replaced, but ended up keeping and paying for all five to get some consistency, and to say thanks to my dealer, who went out of his way to get this working for me.. 
I wont even consider anybody else at this point, and some of these comments make me remember why. Cyknight.. really? I hope you get over whatever trauma or situation made you so bitter.. you obviously had something happen to you and I wish you the best. your sarcasm regarding my schedule and hour commitment, when you dont even know what I do, and what my commitments are, is really.. just bad.  Dont judge others until you walk a mile in their shoes my friend. 
Anyway, another thanks to those who helped.. 
Steve
 

I will second the Infuse and appletv.  When I first got C4, I was using dune and a apple based program (not mymovies) to organize and scrape metadata.  Once the apple program became obsoleted, I looked for awhile to find another solution (will not do pc anything in my house).
 
Ended up with Infuse.  Have it set to look at a drive on  my NAS, and now I just have to throw files into that directory and for the most part Infuse scrapes the data correctly and gives you a nice mediawall presentation.  playback on every file type is great.  best part is I got to take two more 'appliances' out of my system. I can now do any media playback with either the blu-ray (for the theater) or using apple TV throughout the house and in the theater.
 
I know this does not give you c4 integrated thumbnails and pictures, but honestly I have never seen the value of having movies organized into the automation system.. most are played once or twice then maybe once in a blue moon..
 
 

I have been using it for the last 3 years. rock solid for me. family loves using home app instead of the c4 app. with the thermostat proxy worked a bit better, but that is the only thing not working 100pct for me.

hi,
I tried using it, but the input seemed to randomly roll based on what the original input is. so for example, I have the ATV connected to the rear HDMI on the oppo, and the oppo has a HDMI run to the projector and the 2nd HDMI out is used for the audio which runs to my current receiver.
in composer, I have the binding from the oppo output linked to both the receiver and HDMI2 on the projector, and the out from the ATV is linked to the HDMI in on the oppo inputs.
the system defaults on any 'on' command to directv (run from dvr to rec to HDMI1 on proj through rec). 
when I change the input to OPPO, the video on the proj. changes to HDMI2, but the input on the OPPO will either change to BLURAY (if the last thing watched was ATV) or to ATV (if the last thing watched was BLURAY).  the same thing will happen when I select ATV, it will roll to the nect input, and does not seem to be able to select the correct one.
using the IR driver I am able to send a 'input' then '2' when selecting ATV, and this seems to work fine every time.
I am also selecting input 'bluray" on the ir driver for OPPO selection,a d this seems to change it to the correct input.
 
I didnt see these control options available on the IP driver, unless there is a newer version of which I am unaware.
 
Steve
 

hi,
I tried using it, but the input seemed to randomly roll based on what the original input is. so for example, I have the ATV connected to the rear HDMI on the oppo, and the oppo has a HDMI run to the projector and the 2nd HDMI out is used for the audio which runs to my current receiver.
in composer, I have the binding from the oppo output linked to both the receiver and HDMI2 on the projector, and the out from the ATV is linked to the HDMI in on the oppo inputs.
the system defaults on any 'on' command to directv (run from dvr to rec to HDMI1 on proj through rec). 
when I change the input to OPPO, the video on the proj. changes to HDMI2, but the input on the OPPO will either change to BLURAY (if the last thing watched was ATV) or to ATV (if the last thing watched was BLURAY).  the same thing will happen when I select ATV, it will roll to the nect input, and does not seem to be able to select the correct one.
using the IR driver I am able to send a 'input' then '2' when selecting ATV, and this seems to work fine every time.
I am also selecting input 'bluray" on the ir driver for OPPO selection,a d this seems to change it to the correct input.
 
I didnt see these control options available on the IP driver, unless there is a newer version of which I am unaware.
 
Steve