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Thank you RAV. I went through the project again and particularly the garage door driver... For those as early stage in their Composer skills as me, I hadn't seen the "Conditionals" section in the bottom right hand corner of Composer HE so I used this to check if the garage door is open and then the "Commands" section to close the door. Thank you for all your help!

Yes (screenshot of C4 app attached). This is why the garage door sensor must be in the system or maybe I can link to the status in Control4 directly?). Thanks!

There is a beam sensor in the alarm system - I can’t recall if it is integrated into Control4 - I can check later

Hello, I want to add some programming which, after a certain action and a time delay, checks whether the garage door is still open and, if so, closes it. The garage door has a contact sensor in my Texecom alarm system which is integrated into Control4. I thought I would see the garage door contact listed in the security section of Composer HE but while I can see many other Texecom sensors, I cannot see this one. However, I know the garage door sensor is integrated into Control4 because Control4 correctly shows the status of the garage door under Locks & Sensors in the Control4 app. How can I find the variable Control4 is using to determine the status of the garage door and then link to this so I can program an action (closing the door) off it please? Thank you!

Thank you - that’s a very helpful point to understand for future reference as well - thanks!!

If I scroll to the "External" room on one of my T3 navigators, I can see a padlock button which shows whether my front gate is open or closed (and I can click on it to open/close it). I would like to add this button to the screen for another room ("Kitchen") for a number of reasons, including convenience and making sure my wife can use it! How do I do this please? I have Composer HE. Thank you!

Thank you. So I can’t edit an existing If statement but I see how to create a new one and I can move the actions to the newly created If statement. Thanks for your help

Sorry for what I am sure is a very basic question but I am struggling for some reason... I have a command in Composer which is effectively "If [variable] EQUAL TO [value]" which a dealer setup for me - I just want to copy this and edit the value so I can replicate the same action with a different value - I can copy the programming (both the IF function and the resulting actions) but I cannot figure out how to change the value. How do I edit this please? Thank you!

I have the Hikvision driver from Chowmain and my dealer setup the ANPR in C4. The camera has a watchlist and when one of these license plates is triggered, it notifies C4. I had an initial list of two cars to do one action and two cars for another action - the programming in Control4 has 4 individual conditional statements (1 for each car) - ie if the Hikvision driver notifies license plate X, then do Y. This all works well. However, I want to add a longer list of license plates. Do I need to add them all to the Hikvision watchlist and repeat the C4 programming for each individual license plate? in C4, can it lookup a Control4 list (or be an OR statement)? I would like something which I can easily edit. This still leaves me adding license plates to both Hikvision and C4 (a hassle but not an issue). If needs be, I could change the setup so every license plate has the same action - could I then use the camera’s watchlist so the camera notifies C4 when one of these license plates is triggered and then C4 doesn’t care what the license plates is but just runs the action whenever it receives a prompt from Hikvision? Thanks!

In case helpful to others, my son repurposed a Raspberry Pi to be an Airplay transmitter Thanks for all the input and ideas!

I realise this is getting very specific and potentially excessive but in case anyone is interested, I wonder whether the Yamaha MusicCast vinyl player and the Yamaha WXC-50 pre-amplifier (or WXA-50 integrated amplifier) would work? I think the WXC devices are designed to provide MultiCast features (eg Spotify streaming and airplay) to legacy sound systems but could they be used as an input to the Triad audio matrix to support MultiCast devices like the vinyl player on the network?

That was my assumption but I think RAV is right - reading the manual, the record player acts as an airplay receiver but it does not stream out to an airplay receiver.

How about a Yamaha MusicCast Vinyl 500? Airplay seems to be built-in

Yes - I think that is the best option. A shame because he doesn’t need more stuff in his room - just a turntable would be ideal but it doesn’t seem to be feasible. Thanks

Unfortunately audio baluns won’t work (as far as I am aware) - I use them elsewhere in the house but this Ethernet cable goes to a secondary switch which is not in the rack location (and this secondary switch is connected to the main switch with a fibre link through a duct under the house foundations). Are there audio baluns which operate over IP? I’ve wondered why there isn’t something like the opposite of a Triad 1 - take an audio input and send it over IP to the Triad matrix as another input…?