rjsuryan

I'm not needing motion, but outdoor sun sensor for shades that doesn't look like crap. Front of house faces west outdoor and indoor shades all on west side, Somfy SDN inside and Somfy RTS out. Client is super sensitive about aesthetics on front of house. Doesn't like the look of Sunis outdoor sensor for the RTS on the front of the house. Doesn't want bulky sensors in the indoor window sills. The Somfy Animeo could maybe work, but way overkill. Don't really want battery powered sensors. Client wants different shade groups to close when direct sun is at those groups. Would rather control it through C4. The Hue sensor only comes in black house is white, so that won't fly.

Control4 is going to come out with their own voice system in one to two years designed for home automation. Alexa is designed to sell you Prime, Google Home is designed to mine your data, and Homekit is designed to keep you in the Apple family. Control4 is not interested in the DIY market. Josh Ai is the only voice system designed for home automation right now.

I already see Control4 going more high end with their acquisitions of Pakedge and Triad , but also addressing the entry level with the new CA-1, but will they ever try to outright compete with DIY, probably not. It takes economics of scale to produce products like Alexa for the masses. Alexa has a long way to go to get to the level of sophistication of Control4 as a home controller, It is primarily a single interface (voice) and it is less versatile, Voice is a great interface for some functions but not so good for others and can be quite cumbersome at times. Plus most of the brands that Alexa has skills for are new startups that may or may not be in business in a year or two. I have found that the accuracy of Alexa to be poor at times and doing it's processing in the cloud adds to latency as well. Josh Ai is a far superior voice product for those that want voice to really work, but is more expensive. As the adage goes, You get what you pay for. If a customer wants HA at low end prices then they are DIYers that will be willing to put up with the warts that those products have and for clients that want it to work and have a level of performance that they can't get from DIY then C4 and a professional will be the correct choice. Just like a person that buys a Mercedes and uses the service center or someone that buys a KIA and changes their own oil, or going to a fast food restaurant compared to 5 star dining.

Having problems with the import on Kodi Lite Movie Import I selected “Network File Storage” as the storage device after setting it up like the documentation wants, and then clicked import from the actions tab. The Lua tab shows the following output: KODI MOVIE LIBRARY (182 movies total): Importing Movie import finished But no movies are actually imported. I tried deleting the movies library from XBMC/Kodi and re-adding them, but it did not help. The driver has a fairly detailed debug log, so I did a little bit of debugging and found that this is because the driver assumes the movie IDs start at 1, but it’s possible that no movie with ID 1 even exists. The driver calls Kodi’s VideoLibrary.GetMovies API, learns I have 182 movies, and then calls VideoLibrary.GetMovieDetails for movieid 1-182. However, the movieid for the first movie is actually 257. His other driver probably has the same bug and is why I’ve had no luck with the import.