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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 ...

1 hour ago, TexasBill said:

I also have some leak sensors under the washing machine and by my waterfall to catch a leak even sooner. I have never had any issues with any of these products.

(Except the batteries needing replacement in the leak detectors.

What kind of battery life do you get?

So, no one using LeakSmart Snap?

7 hours ago, C4 User said:

I would suggest if you are concerned about internet reliability on your system then install redundant IPS as available in your area. Just make sure your redundant IPS uses a different means of data transmission (LTE or Satellite).

Actually not worried about my service reliability, just don’t want the function of an auto shutoff to be dependent on it.

Can the FLO shutoff the water valve even if the Internet connection is down?  

I went through this exercise a couple years ago.  I decided on shades with Rollease Acmeda motors.  That didn’t limit fabric selections and the Annex4 drivers (free) are quite good. 
 

I would have loved Lutron, but way too expensive for 14 shades.

Looking at a water leak detection / valve shutoff system and it looks like there are two systems compatible with C4 - FLO by Moen and LeakSmart.

The LeakSmart system has a valve controller that Snaps on while the FLO needs to be cut into the pipe.  The LeakSmart driver is free, but the Cintegration driver for the FLO seems to provide a lot more function.

Can anyone with either system comment on both how well the system works and any C4 driver experiences?  Anyone have experience with both able to compare/contrast?

31 minutes ago, WholeHomeControl said:

Suppose you want a keypad button in Control4 that turns on your bathroom light and starts playing a news update on your Echo.  You cannot do the second part of this scenario within C4; you need C4 to tell Alexa to do that thing.

Ah. I understand now. Thanks.

7 minutes ago, WholeHomeControl said:

The Alexa driver lets you have Alexa activate C4 programming.  However, what about if you wanted C4 to activate an Alexa routine?  That's where the virtual buttons come in.

Can you give me an example of why you would want to do this?  If you have Alexa routines that call C4 programming, why would you want to have C4 invoke the routine to call the C4 programming?  In that case why not just do what you want in C4?  
 

Say I have an Alexa routine “Alexa, do this thing” which runs a C4 macro “Do this thing”.  I don’t see why pushing a virtual button from C4 to call “Alexa, do this thing” routine to run the C4 macro “Do this thing” provides any usefulness over calling the C4 “Do this thing” macro directly.

1 hour ago, dinom said:

What does the lock experience button provide?

The door auto lock driver shows whether a door is open/closed, locked/unlocked and can be used to lock/unlock the door from the UI.  Can have status lights bound to a button.  Set auto lock time and probably a few other things.

Congrats!  I wish I could take the course and the test.  Would even pay for the costs ...

Though I suspect I could pass the test without taking the course.

On 6/6/2020 at 5:24 AM, msgreenf said:

Any locks w an August module can be integrated w a free driver

I love the August blocks and driver.  And the lock experience button from C4.  I’ve been very pleasantly surprised with the battery life on the August lock.

7 minutes ago, RyanE said:

Well, for the Control4 Alexa driver, the driver doesn't keep a constant connection to Amazon, so this isn't really possible.

Makes sense.  But couldn’t an event be fired if/when the driver connects but fails to get an ‘all is ok’ status?   That would be the equivalent of what I’m looking for for drivers that maintain a connection.  To me, it only matters if there was supposed to be a connection/status at a given point in time and there wasn’t.

Confused.  If I already have an Alexa driver (native or Epic Systems) why would I want the virtual push button service when I can already have Alexa activate C4 programming?  This seems like an unnecessary (and potentially costly) add on.  

To all driver developers - thanks for your contributions to the Control4 community.

For anyone that develops or maintains a driver that requires some sort of network connection to a server, whether it be your license server or a vendors API server - please add event(s) that fire on state change so if the controller can’t connect or isn’t connected the user can program some sort of local alert or other action.  Most drivers show these states in debug mode or some sort of driver info display in properties but that’s only helpful when you are actually looking at the properties.

Rachio, Ring, Alexa,, Chowmain Image uploader are examples of where such events would be quite useful.

Thanks!

I think if connection and class are changed to UIBUTTON from CD it should do what I want.

If that is true, I don’t understand why the Alexa Dot driver uses CD unless UIBUTTON wasn’t available until OS 3

24 minutes ago, msgreenf said:

No way today

I can wait until tomorrow

1 hour ago, WholeHomeControl said:

Unless I misunderstand, the Echo Dot and other no control drivers still present the transport/remote screen in Navigator.

Correct, (at least for the Echo Dot one).  That’s what I want to avoid.

I would like a CD type selection driver (like the Amazon Echo Dot driver) that does not present the transport/keypad/remote screen when selected.  
 

Can that be done by removing a section of the XML in the driver?  Or does that require use of a different proxy other than CD?

@turls - let us know what Blackwire says.  I’ve never seen the Rachio driver loose the details of the connected system.  
 

Blackwire is apparently updating the driver soon because the current weather and temp fields aren’t being populated (and there may be other things fixed because of Rachio API changes).

C4 to Rachio works fine (though you can’t do anything with schedules or water delays), but Rachio to C4 seems to be missing a lot.

I realized the other day that theIr Rachio driver doesn’t have events for individual zone off, just on, and does not fire events when Rachio stops/starts zones during a schedule where a given zone turns on/off multiple times (e.g. when there is a soaking cycle) so doing anything in C4 based on a Rachio initiated event Is somewhat pointless.  I would like to see the Rachio driver provide events by zone that you can see in the Rachio ap history or at least fire a message event whenever the Rachio ap writes a message to history (assuming of course the API supports it).

The Control4 Announcements Experience button is very useful, but only allows a Select action and cannot be explicitly turned on or off in code (or more importantly the on/off state cannot be queried).

I would love to see C4 add the ability to set/query state.  In the meantime, is there anyway to query announcement status in a given room?

Edit: Found Announcement Disabled room variable !

Just now, zaphod said:

Now that I am able to use the Epic driver again I do think that it is faster and more consistent.  But the C4 control takes less programming work and the phrasing can be less awkward.

Use Alexa routines to invoke a Epic System driver trigger and then you can use whatever phrasing you want.  

Well, don’t know what it was but switched the wires to the gen 3 and everything is fine.  The gen 1 is relegated to the recycle bucket.  Sure won’t miss that wonky Wi-Fi setup.

The Rachio Gen 3 is a major step up.

22 minutes ago, RyanE said:

In my experience, if the sprinkler controller thinks it's on (and the LED on the Rachio is on), your zone valve or wiring has issues, not the Rachio...

Most likely a valve solenoid gone bad.

RyanE

I’ll see later tonight when we move the wiring to the new controller.  I just found it odd that not a single zone fired the other day.  It wasn’t just single valve.

To answer my own questions for others - the setting migration in the Rachio ap during setup of the new controller was almost instantaneous.  Once that was done, I deleted the gen 1 controller.  In C4 just delete/add the last digit of the API key in the properties tab to update the controller info.  All programming info remained intact.