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I just got a replacement WattBox 700 for one that failed the same way. The failing unit was installed in 2016. I have been unable to find any info regarding any change to design/parts to make the units more reliable or if there was just simply a bad batch. But I may get a DLI unit for backup. They seem to be mostly well reviewed and the price is a lot more reasonable.

That would be nice. And I’d like a 12” model. But C4 really has to figure out a way to price touchscreens at something close to reasonable. And for touchscreens I would also like the ability to have user defined folders/sub folders and the ability to programmatically press a button

You guys need to work on that

SA has posted his before. 700 some driver instances if I remember. Mine is nowhere near as big and I’ve never counted mine but will post a summary later.

For those using a CA-10 at home - how are you connecting the Ethernet ports? I have only one ISP and right now have both ports connected to my router. When I move the CA-10 into the rack I was thinking of running one to the router and one to my main switch but not sure that buys me anything useful unless the switch dies (which pretty much takes most of the system with it snyway). I got the CA-10 for processing power. Is there much other benefit to a home user?

Even if you don’t have the awesome C4 system that @South Africa C4 user has

Thanks @alanchow I will have to lobby the Zappiti US folks to get you more feedback through the API then It’s a very small team, but they seem helpful. Definitely need status on basic transport events. I would hope they could give you “Is Paused” at minimum (my wife is going to be all over me when she realizes I can’t do anything with the lights when a movie is paused). While I would love to have a Kaleidoscope it’s just way out of my price range. I saw this exactly as you suggest - a better version of the Dune HD. The Zappiti will get me going on digitizing my collection and getting rid of two massive BluRay changers. Two other questions for now: 1) should the virtual switcher be hidden or exposed in the watch menu for any room the player or library is visible in? 2) The Zappiti doc says an Oppo (or any device supporting SMB) can play from the library. Is there a way to do this through your Oppo driver and would that give me the ability to use the Oppo to detect that a movie had been paused?

Yes. Comes with ears installed.

Yeah, I’m with Ryan. Nice idea in concept but probably not workable for a host of reasons. And it would likely increase rather than decrease controller costs.

I’m not a big fan of having a box that just runs the project and I probably would have preferred a beefier EAx box. It would be awesome if you could just build your own box and upgrade processing power without spending a fortune or getting rid of perfectly good hardware but I’m sure the subset of owners that would actually do that is small and C4 wouldn’t make the huge margins they have on their controllers. But, now that I have a CA-10 with an EA5 and the original HC-800 for Audio and connections I hope future product lines will have project-less options for whatever new audio/support comes down the line.

Installed my new CA-10 and my dealer got everything migrated over for me (shout out to @chopedogg88 for awesome service). Took less time than I thought too. All I can say is WOW! Compared to my EA5, this thing flies. Project loads faster. Backups might be faster. T3 response is near instantaneous except for the full camera view (and then only like a beat and a half). When someone rings the doorbell I get the doorbell sound faster and the camera snapshot actually gets taken before they move away. iOS ap loads almost instantly. Ditto pages of Album covers and Experience Buttons. I have some work to do on getting some camera streams tuned, but they load quickly enough to be useful. My Chowmain Event Logging files load instantly in my iPad browser rather than taking forever to finish. Rebooting the controller no longer takes 8-10 minutes for the system to stabilize. I really wasn’t sure I was going to notice a difference, but I have been very pleasantly surprised In the limited testing I’ve done so far. Yes, the CA-10 is expensive but it will probably pay for itself in reduced frustration. Good job C4. But don’t stop improving OS3 performance...

This looks like it is going to be good. Never got my Dune HD player working with MyMovies and kind of gave up until now. Just got a Zappiti One SE 4K connected. However, no matter what I did it would not connect while the driver was in trial mode (Debug info said Activate Driver and then CYPHER). Once my license was activated it connected right away. I noticed some interesting things in the Properties page after the driver connected. (1) The Zappiti account field is blank. I expected it to show the account the player was logged into (or for the driver to have you enter account/password and have the driver log in) (2) The Power Setup field said “Always On” and was greeted out though it looked like it was a drop down box. Is this correct? I’m not sure I want to have the box always on which brings me to (3) After the Room turned off I noticed a status every 5 seconds (“Received Last media” or “Received Is Playing”). Why is the driver polling if Zappiti isn’t an active source? (4) There don’t seem to be any Zappiti related events or variables to program off of. I would like to be able to know what title is selected and/or playing at minimum and probably more. (4.5) Ditto Device specific events. Looks like the only thing you can do is launch a specific title. (5) it would be nice to have a binding for the HDMI Audio only output in the virtual switcher. This is available on the SE but not the mini. (I picked the SE because it had many more connection/output options than the mini and thought I might want the ability to use an internal drive). The SE looks like it will be great in the rack (but presume there will be issues if someone selects it in room B while playing in Room A). That’s ok for me because I don’t think I’ll need to have different movies playing at the same time. The following is not related to the driver but may be helpful to anyone setting up a new player and/or new to Zappiti. The included and online Knowledge base docs from Zappiti are confusing and sometimes misleading and some aren’t current. Getting started certainly isn’t intuitive because there is nothing in the doc with the player that tells you most of this. a) You must have a Zappiti account set up to do anything. If you don’t already have one create it during the setup of the hardware. DO NOT use the online web page to do it or use an iPad or mobile ap. (And on the iPad ap you can’t read the error messages if you get any because they get cut off) b) during the hardware setup you may get an error message saying you need an update to continue but when you proceed there is a message saying the upgrade can’t proceed after a couple screens flash by faster than you can read. Retry will be useless because you will find yourself in an endless loop. To fix this, use the remote to go to the Home Screen and then go to My Aps. Select the service icon (looks like a Z with wrenches) and run it. You will probably see that the Video and Explorer aps have new updates available. Update Explorer first, then Video, even though Explorer is listed second. Once these are both done your account should load correctly. c) If you are going to put your collection on a Synology NAS you do not need the Zappiti package on the Synology (or the required mono package) and can simply ignore any references to Synology specific code) d) If you are storing your collection on a NAS you probably won’t use Zappiti Share. If you only have one player, you won’t use it at all. e) Zappiti will merge all info from all the disks/paths listed so you don’t have to have all your data centralized (I haven’t seen this in action yet because I need to set up a test collection) f) You MUST set up at least one folder for movies and another for TV shows however you can call them what you want. Various pieces of documentation indicate they must have specific names but this isn’t true.

Will this driver support LUMA cameras? (I think they are rebranded Hikvision)

Have the dealer install whatever physical switches / keypads you want and ID them to the system but do no programming. Get an HE license and do any of the programming you want yourself. Basic lighting controls are about as easy to do as you can get. On switches in general - when we finished our basement we put in too many. It was wired up as if we had no automation. And now that voice automation is simple to do, I’d probably have even fewer switches and keypads. if I were to do it all over again I would put in mostly Keypad dimmers but significantly fewer physical switches altogether (thinking of them as generally emergency use). With motion detectors and voice automation we rarely use physical switches for lights any more and don’t use keypad keys anywhere as much as we used to.

Just happened again This is getting silly.

Thanks. The app name is LUMA Surveillance. No idea if that’s the new one or old one. Looks to be the only one for iOS though. I guess if it happens again I will pay for support time to have them tell me they don’t see a problem

Why would that impact the use of the app on a local LAN? Also - the problem fixes itself as soon as I reboot the NVR 510 so that doesn’t SEEM server related ... if it doesn’t come back in a few days, I will be happy, but will not be if I have to reboot the NVR every few days.

Yup, you can use the navigation agent (“Jump”).

If he only wants camera feed when the TV is on, check that power status rather than the room. Room could be playing audio.

I’ve had a LUMA 510 NVR installed for the better part of a year and have been using the IOS LUMA ap to see the cameras on the local network. A couple days ago, all the camera feeds in the ap show no picture with an error message Not more connection is allowed] though feeds display fine in C4 navigators. If I reboot the NVR, the Luma ap works fine for a day or so and then the error returns. I know there was a Luma firmware update a few years ago, but not aware of anything recently that would explain this sudden strange behavior. Can anyone offer help/advice as to how to resolve this without rebooting the NVR every day?

Is there a C4 driver?

If you use an Alexa routine, easiest way is to trigger off a SET level. I don’t use on or off for anything that isn’t on a switch

Will HC-800 terminal blocks fit in place of EA5 terminal blocks? (Are they interchangeable?)

Can anyone suggest a relatively inexpensive replacement for a Binary B500 8x8 HDMI matrix? 4k support nice, but not critical. Prefer IP control rather than serial. Would also like to be able to use existing baluns. Thanks!

Looks like Cinegration folks will be selling a few more licenses ...