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The Apple TV is set to never sleep. Chromecast does not have any settings. All devices are on latest firmware and software. I agree - in every other aspect the Marantz is very stable and better than the Cambridge Audio. Another thing I noticed is if I set the Binary Matrix to turn off when not in use, rather than be always on, the issue disappears. Maybe there is some handshake or something that needs to happen which does not happen if the matrix is already on. I would use that setting but in that case, the TiVo box loses audio and has to be restarted every time .

I'm having a strange issue with Apple TV and Chromecast. Wondering if anyone here has any suggestions. APPL TV 4K -> Binary HDMI Matrix -> Marantz SR6008 Receiver -> Gefen HDMI over Cat6 -> Panasonic ZT60 Chromecast -> Binary HDMI Matrix -> Marantz SR6008 Receiver -> Gefen HDMI over Cat6 -> Panasonic ZT60 -- When I turn on the room directly to either Apple TV or Chromecast, the TV shows "No signal". -- If I switch to another source and back, everything works fine. By extension, if I already have another source running in the room and switch to either of these two, everything works fine. I have the same connections going to another room (shown below) and this issue does not happen there. APPL TV 4K -> Binary HDMI Matrix -> Cambridge Audio 651R Receiver -> Gefen HDMI over Cat6 -> Panasonic ZT60 Chromecast -> Binary HDMI Matrix -> Cambridge Audio 651R Receiver -> Gefen HDMI over Cat6 -> Panasonic ZT60 The only difference between the 2 rooms is the receiver. I don't think the receiver itself is bad because it works fine with other sources. I'm guessing there is some setting within the receiver (or a conflict of a setting in another component with this specific receiver) which is causing this.

+1. This driver was supposed to be ready last October. All we've heard is it'll be ready soon, it'll be ready next month and so on, without any results. If you are not going to stand behind your product. go ahead and say so and be done with it.

So are we still waiting on the new driver? Last I read it was supposed to be released in January.

Got it. Thanks for the quick response and the link to sharing shortcuts.

@alanchow If I want to configure the TCP driver to send commands from watch(es) using Siri, will the shortcuts need to be created on each iPhone individually?

@TFlury Thank you for the detailed example. That's what I ended up doing. I can confirm it works. @martymohr Thanks for the clarification. Yes, it is slightly better than before, in that all the similar code is in one location (ease of maintenance). Would have been ideal if I could just say execute the following set of commands on <variable> device or room but seems like that's not how it works in C4. New to C4 programming so playing around with it. This helps is clarifying some basic concepts.

Thanks all for the feedback. Fixing the driver is not an option. @martymohr I do have it programmed the way you are suggesting and it works fine. The reason I want to use a macro is to reduce repetitive code (same programming for each room). I create the code (macro) once and use it as needed wherever. This is a simple example with just a couple of lines of programming. There may be other programming that may be more complex and may need to be added to multiple rooms. Taking your example, say you created a sequence for your bathroom and you want the same sequence to run in all your bathrooms. I am equating these macros to functions or procedures in coding. Maybe I'm wrong and that is not how macros in Control4 work at all.

If that is indeed the case, that does not seem like good coding. Instead of duplicating the code in each room, I'm duplicating the macro (with the same code). I'm thinking, if I create a variable. When bedroom off -> set value of this variable to bedroom tv When living room off -> set value of this variable to living room tv In the macro, If variable = bedroom tv, execute commands a, b,c on bedroom tv If variable = living room tv, execute commands a, b, c on living room tv If this works, it is still a lot of hard coding and repetition. Ideally it would be, when room off, extract the value of which room and then provide this value to the macro. In the macro -> get the <room> -> execute commands a,b,c on the the <room> tv Possible?

My TV driver has an issue where it sometimes does not turn off. This workaround ensures that it always turns off when I hit Room Off.

I have programming, as shown in the attached screenshot. I want to create a macro so I don't have to duplicate the code for each room. When room turns off -> execute macro. How do I import the value of the room into the macro. For example, when the bedroom turns off, how do I code the macro such that it knows the commands need to be executed on the bedroom TV.

Thank you so much for your help. PM sent.

Rexabyte, From the debug output, it seems like the driver is sending commands to port 23. For the BDP-103, the open port is 48360. Would it be possible for you to modify the driver such that the port can be input manually? Saurabh

Thanks Muj and Rex for the suggestion. I did try the annex4 UDP-203 driver. Serial control seems to be working most of the time (it misses the power on / off command once in a while). However, IP control does not seem to work at all. I did set the IP in the Connections -> Network section. You mention the TCP port needs to be open. Is this a setting on the BDP I need to change? Saurabh

No worries. Thanks for taking the time to respond.