South Africa C4 user

As the OP on this thread, I must say that I am very happy with developments at C4 over the last 2 years since I posted originally. The real break through was the advent of Experience Buttons last year and I am looking forward to seeing what else people like Blackwire, Mitch, Alan and others can do with them! For when Control4 reads this, bookmarks (or similar) would still be nice to have. It would be great to programmatically move to a given screen on any navigator.

Thanks... I have a quote from a dealer and am thinking about it...

Ditto

It shouldn't take long... I've never used Arlo but have used various other IFTTT triggers. I guess that it takes me 5 to 10 minutes to program a recipe in IFTTT and another 5 to 10 minutes to do the C4 side (assuming this is a preset scenario - macro or lighting scene etc. in C4). It will probably take a good half hour to an hour to set the driver up (including setting up an IFTTT account and a Pushover account) if you don't have these already.

If Arlo can send an IFTTT trigger when the security cameras detect motion then, yes! @alanchow 's driver can enable exactly what you want in C4.

My dealer just did a very brief sales job on me - trying to convince me to move to Zappiti (media player and NAS). Does Zappiti play nicely with C4? And is this a step up from a MyMovies / Synolgy/ Dune setup?

Yes, it is quite a cool experience button for this sort of thing as you can choose which colors to allow and have it toggle through these. As I recall (I programmed this when the Experience buttons were first launched 6 or 7 months back, so this may have changed), you cannot have the off option removed, only colours you don't want, so I programmed it to change to white when off is selected as a work around for this. I use 4 of the Experience Buttons... one for daytime upstairs, one for daytime downstairs, one for night time upstairs and one for night time downstairs...

It depends in part on the colour of your keypads... I normally use white during the day and yellow or orange at night... A very dim orange works well in bedrooms at night... I use yellow in the rest of the house at night. I do also have an experience button that allows my kids to change all the backlight colour settings (upstairs, downstairs, day and night separately). I've given them access to blue, red, pink, green, teal, white, yellow and orange... but we tend to stick with my default colors of yellow, white and orange!

And using the native C4 driver, the spa controls are identical to the pool controls. One just gets an extra (spa) tab as well as the pool and extras tab. The biggest bug in the driver is that whenever the controller is rebooted (for any reason) the director forgets you have a spa and you need to go into composer and check the "Has spa" check box again.

I also tend to use the Pentair app (which can control everything) much more than C4. But I do find the C4 integration very useful for two things in particular: 1. Changing run times and turning heaters on / off when different modes are activated (e.g. I have a holiday mode, winter mode and summer mode). 2. Linking in Alexa controls so that I can turn on bubbles / jets / cannons by voice command while sitting in the jacuzzi

The Control4 driver works fine with the newer Pentair panels also (i10). Same bugs but they are relatively minor (document elsewhere in these forums - search Pentair). The new (paid for) driver looks good but my dealer has tried to get a key for it a couple of times with no success (strange as he had no problems getting keys for all the other drivers I use).

Pentair

Someone else turned the circuit breaker back on for you

Unlikely...

Me too!

Sorry! I had not meant to jump in ahead of your announcement! Keep up th egood work... My thoughts on the day / night Button was really just an on/off switch where on shows a daylight picture (sun rising) and off shows a nighttime scene (moon and stars). I was looking for an Experience Button like this when I was setting up some control for irrigation. I have an option for morning or night and rather than using a radio button, I thought an icon swapping between day and night would work... I can see other uses for a button with 3 states, day, night and 24/7. Hope that makes sense?

I see you've added some white goods Experience Buttons - very cool! A day / night Button would be a very useful addition. So would a countdown button where it counts down in days rather than hours or minutes. Alternatively, a countdown button where the user controls when the number changes...

Interesting... And good!

Thanks an I hear you... At least I am back for a while

I'm back! South Africans are still honorary Americans! Interestingly, not only am I back, but everything is now pretty much instantaneous where it was quite slow previously... and the only response I am getting from Alexa (so far) is OK... which is exactly what one wants. None of this device not being found nonsense. All I did was disable the skill in the Alexa App and then re-enable it. Interestingly, I did not lose any of the name changes that I had done for devices in MyControl4 which was a big plus! Of course, the big question I have is why / how did the connection get broken?

Unfortunately, I am still down... very sad... perhaps you are right and the secret police figured out that South Africa is not, in fact an American state! But I am not sure as I still see the Control4 skill in the Alexa app. I tried adding an advanced lighting scene and it did not appear in mycontrol4 (admittedly, I only did this 15 minutes ago - maybe I need to wait longer). I am considering deleting the skill and re-adding it... but that would be irritating (even if it works) as I changed the names of almost all of my 100 odd lights and most of my 100 odd advanced lighting scenes...

You are lucky! I went dark a day or so ago and can't find the light switch!

In terms of Alexa, I can no longer get her to Discover any of the Control4 devices... Even if I change some of the device names / enabled devices in my Control4 and rerun discovery, Alexa tells me she discovers no devices... Very frustrating :-(

My iOS app is still fine.

Weird!