SMHarman

You set them up as dealer of record on my.control4.comYou tell them your account name. They log in.

I dunno. Will be interesting to see this play out though. Apple solutions, like any solution will need to be highly robust, no regular reboots or crashes. Easy programming and ease of interconnectivity, the plumbing that composer pro has Will need to be easy, easy easy. Secure. The recent Apple ssl error highlights the importance of that. I still see a world of apps instead of control 4 single app world. Maybe the 20 somethings will lap that up, but you have much of that now. Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk

Who, well your Control4 and Crestron type customers will still exist. Cash rich time poor. Apple customers will still find implementation is hard and expensive needing widgets they had nit thought of to join the dots. This opens the Market an EV or Chow will build a gateway. Only if the dealers lose faith and the ability to sell c4 as a solution will there be a problem. Alarm companies did not go away with HA Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk

Can you post a how to pry a SR250 apart without breaking it thread?

Some serial ports and it ports. Extra audio outs into the matrix. Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk

And I have Sonos but I have no Sonos mesh. That's what I'm talking about. Which seems to be the way to run it in conjunction with C4. Get a Sonos Zone Player 80 or 90 or CONNECT and connect this as an input to the C4 multizone amp and control that with EV. Once you have the PLAY devices things get more complicated.

Ah, I see. I'm guessing that while the HC250/800 will do m4a what they mean by m4a is MP4/AAC lossy encoding. m4a can also be MP4/ALAC as wikipedia says same container, different encoding) which I guess is not supported? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless The only lossless encoding I see on the list is FLAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC Of course iTunes does not natively support FLAC.

He talks about the mesh of devices in play.

Considering that this is a problem for integrating Sonos and other proprietary closed systems I can't see C4 considering this a problem. They would advise you to use their multi channel amps (in a wired environment) or WiFi endpoint and their audio solutions. C4 has hardware for SiriusXM, Tunein and Rhapsody and pretty much all formats of digital music. Full control of a device with Songza, Pandora, Amazon Cloud Player, Spotify etc is easily achievable with the wireless music bridge. http://www.control4.com/solutions#show-listen In most install scenareos you have two volume controls where you have the ability to balance input levels. Effectively the Sonos volume control becomes a control to balance the input volume of the Sonos against your Digital Media and other sources, a set and forget. The real problem is to wean the family of controlling Sonos directly. An interesting blog on the pros and cons of Sonos http://www.residentialsystems.com/default.aspx?tabid=90&EntryId=645

So an MP3 seen in Digital Audio, as can an m4a but if you select the mp3 you get an audio stream, however clicking the m4a does not? I know this works seamlessly on my 250 connected to a Synology NAS folder in Digital Audio. The bulk of my collection is also m4a and the 250/800 was the reason I pulled the c4 trigger. None of this is iTunes purchased m4p? If it is you need to go through the unlocking process, paying 30c a file $1 album and getting new m4a files.

You have an HC800. .m4a is no longer forbidden in fact if you look at the spec sheet it is marketed. You do need to add it as an additional file extension to the scanning. https://dealer.control4.com/Images/Downloads/C4-HC800-BL-1/101502_RevA_HC-800_DS.pdf Supported audio formats MP3: 32kbps to 320kbps, CBR, VBR, AAC, and FLAC