Matt Lowe

It’s why I mentioned be specific on your needs.  What audio and where.  What you need with TVs,  HVAC etc and what they need to do
your responses have been vague and that could be why you got two drastically different quotes.  
 
if I told two travel agents my wife and I want a vacation someone could book us for 4 weeks in Europe and another agent could book us for 4 days in Sedona.   Both are nice but night and day difference 
please give details on what you need, what you have, what you need to buy, what wiring is needed etc

It is possible to create mini apps as long as you can get the command to issue to the tv to launch the app.

The AVSwitch command command dialog sucks big time, and I don't use it for development or testing, so unfortunately, I can't give you any salient advice on it...
RyanE

I'm in the process of updating my VSCode extension I started long ago. I actually just added support for updating Lua script today after Ryan's comment.

The formatting of the driver is quite different and there's no modifications inside of XML anymore. Most sections are broken out into JSON files for their specific purposes (properties, commands, events, connections, etc) and provide a webview for modification, you can still edit the underlying JSON file as well (backed by JSON schemas)

I've also been able to include some improvements for things that bothered me, for example you can now specify the amount of HDMI connections you want to generate rather than copy pasting a bunch of XML blocks:


Properties & Webview example:


Auto completion of functions:


Signature helpers:


All that being said I still haven't pushed a release as there are some issues to work out around the UI capability section.

Repository here: https://github.com/annex4-inc/vscode-control4-ext

@Matt Lowe There was a pretty good discussion about how to get set up using Visual Studio Code (or really any other text editor you'd like) with the driverpackager tools on another thread. DriverEditor is OK for learning the way around C4 drivers and how to put them together, but you'll like life a lot more once you get the hang of how to use something better. My experience has been that Visual Studio Code with a few plugins paired to the DriverPackager Python tool has been much faster and easier to use. It's also less prone to crashing if you mess something up or use it in a way which it doesn't like.
 
 

It has to be ADP/KPD gen dimmers to be included in scene ramp/fades.  The older stuff won't do it.  

I suspect that the 1,500 ms was chosen to ensure that you could not have a double tap and a press and hold event activate from the same actions.  If I recall correctly, C4 waits 1.5 seconds to determine whether an action is single press, double press or triple press.
That said, if you have something that works flawlessly, you don’t need to change it.
I do something similar to what is recommended in the post you quoted but I use a 2 second timer rather than the 1500ms delay. A 2 second press and hold does feel long in the real world but I want it to feel long as I use it for triggering our house alarm which I don’t want done by accident!
If you want really cool keypad functionality including press and hold, double press and hold, triple press and hold, flashing LEDs and a whole lot more then I would recommend Domosapiens Keypad Enhancer driver - https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/utility/keypad-enhancer/

this can be done fairly lightly as well. 
I would just create a couple lines of code. 
for the front door
when the front door opens
       if night time
           turn on the light
when it closes
          start a timer
when timer expires
     if after 1030pm
             turn off light.
 
 
as for the back yard
  schedule event happens at 1030
       if the backyard is off
           turn off the light
when back yard turns off
        if after 1030 pm
                 start timer
 
when timer expires
         if back yard is off
               turn off light
 
We also have a training course for composer home edition. In this course, we will be using the same Composer Home software available to you as the end-user. We will go through real-life situations to automate your home, troubleshoot your system, and educate you about the tools you have as a consumer.  We hope this course will help to take full advantage of your investment in Control4. You can see our first video here for free on youtube.com . You can sign up here on our Pateron Site. We will be offering a lot of benefits for our supporters including discounts on all walts.com products, private discord channel, free email support, and much more.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.   

I do use the C4 switch on my LIFX and Hue bulbs. I just have the set to not switch the load directly and only via programming. This prevents family and guests from turning off these bulb without knowing.

Got it, thanks!

Thank you.  Unfortunately, that is beyond my technical capabilities.  I'm going to have to have my dealer handle it.

Yep - I followed the instructions on my iPhone and still could not figure it out.
now I know, it's simple
just getting to the 'full screen' of the song that is playing was the issue, I usually just have it display at the bottom of the app (Mainly due to not even knowing it expanded further....
 

what is the source name when you select it in the watch or listen menus? its almost like the driver is getting meta data but is not doing it correctly.
you can hide devices in navigators from composer HE, a pro is not nessecary.

90% of the time the issue resolution too high.
720p or less will work.

We have a training course for composer home edition. In this course, we will be using the same Composer Home software available to you as the end-user. We will go through real-life situations to automate your home, troubleshoot your system, and educate you about the tools you have as a consumer.  We hope this course will help to take full advantage of your investment in Control4. You can see our first video here for free on youtube.com . You can sign up here on our Pateron Site. We will be offering a lot of benefits for our supporters including discounts on all walts.com products, private discord channel, free email support, and much more.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.   

The usual answers to these are:
1) There are a lot of dealers on these forums that will make changes for homeowners who have equipment installed (or will install the equipment themselves).  Most have pretty good reputations for following up within a reasonable time, and charging reasonable rates.
2) You can purchase ComposerHE (Homeowner's Edition) to make many programming changes.  It does nearly everything that ComposerPro will do, with the exceptions of: you can't add new device drivers, you can't make bindings between device drivers, and and a handful of other things that are rarely used.  If an online dealer does those things for you, ComposerHE can do the rest.
RyanE

You won't like this answer, but yes the matrix is likely fried. It COULD be the powersupply, so if not in warranty you could see what's out there for repair options (at your own risk of course) - but I fear you're going to have a some quiet time on your hands....

Chamberlain/Liftmaster are wankers and should be avoided at all costs.  They changed their API, want to collect a subscription fee and changed their openers so you can't even use a simple relay.  Encourage everyone to buy Genie openers instead.
If that isn't an option check out the Garadget thread.  Garadget sells modified Chamberlain openers that you can connect into C4 via relays.  Or you could use the entire Garadget system to also sense a door opening.

I have a used, in very good condition Epson 5050ub.  About a year old.  Great projector...nothing wrong with it, they are just upgrading to the new JVC RS3100.
$2500

Sonos needs to work on its own using its own app. So start there. Set all of the devices to the correct device inputs and make sure you have full control over the devices from the sonos app. After that make sure those connections match in control4.  You can run sonos into control4 but then you will have trouble matching the audio up. It can be done but it is fairly advanced to get it setup. WE talk about some of these pitfalls in our Composer Home video tutorial on you tube. 
 

has the driver been added and configured? if so, yes

In programming tab, go to the room, and you see a drop down - "blue button, green button", etc - program device specific commands to the STB.

Can also check out our Training course for Composer Home. Should take your dealer a matter of miniutes to get you the license and have you access.
 

It would be under the shairbridge driver settings - if you have HE it should be available

can get a shelly from @Kevin L with Blackwire. They are great wifi based RGBW controllers. Then you can essentially use any LED tape and transformers. We are a dealer for them let me know if you would like some options.