South Africa C4 user

No reason why not. I use Z2IOs to measure humidity and control dehumidifiers (amongst other things) at one of my houses.

Ghost in the system?

It depends. I used (I still have it working but don’t really use it) MyMovies on a media server with the movies themselves and the free MyMovies driver (called CollectionManagent - from memory) together with the Dune Driver makes this possible.

It’s a free driver. If you struggle, I can probably get a copy to you.

https://www.yatundev.eu:44300/drivers/ Try this… it claims to support all standard Lua string commands. I have used it quite a lot in programming (but not for strings in the last few years so I am a bit hazy on what all it can do). I am 99% sure that I used it for exactly what you are trying to do (essentially a left string function).

I’m pretty sure that the Yatun variable manipulator driver (edit: called their calculator driver) allows for some basic string manipulation. However, I am not quite sure where one can get this driver now that Yatun have stoped supporting their C4 drivers. It may still be available on their website. I understand that HopSoft took over support of some of their drivers so they may also have this (although I don’t recall seeing such a driver by HopSoft).

Interesting. I never use the SR260 for lighting but have just tried my light control and am getting some strange behaviour - essentially the same as your experience. Definitely buggy!

Surely if you want (have) AV Pro and you want IP control of your TV, you can simply put a small switch in place before the Balun?

There is no comparison between an EA5 and a CA10. Everything is much faster on the CA10. I very much doubt your project really needs it but if you add it, I have no doubt you will see the difference. Note: I had around 1,000 devices / drivers when I did the upgrade and now with over 2,000, I am feeling like I need something faster

Let us know how things go!

@pbir Too long since I’ve played with this driver to remember. It does have a free trial period so that may be your best option.

I cannot recall whether this is possible or just wishful thinking. If you can control the speaker volume then you can simply set it to zero at certain times of day. I’ll try and remember to look later to see if this can be done via programming.

Glad to see there is still humour on the site!

This is my view. For a few hundred dollars, I would do it… otherwise - “no”. The EA5 is a great controller. If you had needed a performance enhancement (massive system) your dealer would have spec’d a CA10 (which has been around for a while and is noticeably faster than an EA5 and a Core5). Speed is unlikely to be a noticeable advantage of moving to a Core 5. Real advantages include: 1. 4K OSD as opposed to a 1080P OSD; and, 2. More concurrent audio streams. Apart from these 2 points, the only “real / noticeable” advantage in my view is (as you allude to) the fact that the EA5 will probably go EOL long before the Core5.

Mitch’s solution may well be better! Here are the screenshots anyway:

A number of options: 1. Put it permanently in sleep mode. Only way I know to do this is via the C4 driver and updating the state every (say) 48 hours. 2. Add a manual override under FloSense (which you can find under device settings). For instance, on one of my Flo’s I have the override in play from 10am to 3pm because my pool autofiller is (can be) active between 10.30 and 2. 3. Change the sensitivity of Flo Sense and it should learn that this behaviour is Ok after a week or 2. While my suggestion would be option 2, the purists would say that you should use option 3 and put Flo to sleep for the day of large washing (from time to time).

You can program LED colours directly using the LED commands available for each and every keypad. You choose the button, the colour (not required for every command) and what you want to do… E.g. set the LED for button 1 to green. Alternatively, you can use the LED wizard (this is the driver referred to by @time2jet above which allows multiple LED commands to be processed at the same time. You should not really be programming this for lights but rather have your dealer set up the bindings correctly and Control4 will handle it automatically - all you then do is change colours.

I think that the Domosapiens Source Pooling driver may help in this situation. Admittedly, it can’t help you get more streams than the limit (2 for Sirius per your post above). I must admit that I have never used Sirius and I have never used the Source Pooling driver so cannot comment further on this. I use Tidal and have a lot of programming doing what you want to do but I suspect that the Domosapiens Keypad Audio Control driver and the Domosapiens Source Pooling driver would make my programming totally redundant and the outcome better… One day I will test this theory.

This!

Very informative! Thanks

Definitely doable. I like how you are automating things. This is the beauty of automation (as opposed to simple Control). Post your code if you get stuck.

Glad you have it working! I’ve never fully understood the difference between proxy ID and device ID. I did check mine this morning and I was definitely using proxy ID in my example BUT, I have seen other cases where I’ve had to swap the two around,..

It sounds like waiting a few months before getting a Touch will result in a more pleasing first time experience. At least most of the problems sound not serious or a software issue (unlike backlighting on the Neeo which was a serious issue and no software could fix that omission!)

The above was something I did when messing around… so don’t laugh! The variable name in the command is a string (e.g. in the above example, I simply type “POOL_TEMPERATURE” in the variable name field. The proxy ID is unique for every driver and you can find this by hovering your mouse cursor over the driver that you want to use a variable from. in my example, 4862 is the Proxy ID of my pool driver and 1428 is the Proxy ID of a thermostat that displays the outside air temperature. If you are wanting to use a variable from the variable agent then I think (from memory so this one is dangerous) that the proxy ID is 100001.