South Africa C4 user

My experience has got worse... Alexa used to delay a bit and then say the device was not responding but the light would still come on... now the same thing happens but the light does not come on (or go off) as it should...

Indeed! That's all I needed to hear to keep me happy / quiet!

In my case, my Director is an EA5 running OS2.9

I have almost the same experience. Half the time, I have a fairly lengthy delay followed by "The device is not responding". However, absolutely every time this is said, the expected Control4 action happens (e.g. The lights come on).

I'm still a standard grade user and have not (yet) played with attachments!

I've got it working perfectly in one email... my programming is overly complex and I realised once it was working that I am simply doing the following (but in a roundabout way): 1. Set up a variable called count which starts at 0 2. Add 1 to count under the file uploaded event on each of the 3 chunk.io drivers. 3. On variable (count) change check to see if it is equal to 3. If it is, then reset count to 0 and fire off the email. 4. Make sure the email is set up to include the pictures from all 3 drivers. Works like a charm.

Thanks Alan... quite obvious - I feel a bit silly for not thinking of that. If it works, I can get all 3 pictures into one email and with careful coding can only trigger the email after all 3 pictures are available..

Is there a way to upload 2 or 3 different camera snapshots at the same time or does one need to wait 20 (or so) seconds and then take the snapshot from the second camera etc.? I have 3 cameras covering my driveway and would like to get pictures from all 3 of them when a beam is triggered...

I must say this looks pretty neat Alan! I will definitely be using the 48 hour trial when I get a free moment. I will most likely buy... What would be really nice (an enhancement request) is if you could have one of your buttons open up another page (like extras in comfort currently does) and put your buttons in that new page also... Then one could also use this driver to create menus in menus etc. much like one can currently do with StartHere! Two other nice add ons would be: 1. To be able to include a text box with a few lines of text in place of a row of buttons... 2. To have the ability to paste your own icon in to the button (I assume one can already change the text on the button and one is not stuck with Check box, Holiday 1 etc.). You will gather from my suggestions that I am seeing ways of making your driver mimic StartHere! but work on all the new hardware and be infinitely more powerful. By way of example (requiring all 3 of my suggested enhancements), one of the very basic things I have in StartHere at present is the ability to choose a keypad backlight colour for each of upstairs and downstairs separately for day and night (4 options, 7 colours). If your driver allowed a page to pop up, the 4 options could be in the comfort page and all of them would call up an identical second page (with 7 buttons each with an appropriate coloured circle in the centre of the button - these would act as a radio button). One could then have a text entry below the buttons that reminds the user what they are currently doing and says "Upstairs daytime backlights are set to blue" and changes dynamically as one changes the selection or enters the page from a different button in the first place. I have currently kept two of my Touchscreens as V2s for two reasons (a lack of book marking ability and the inability to use StartHere! on the new Touchscreens). Your driver as it stands now would go half way to removing my reliance on StartHere! And if the above 3 changes were made, I could come off StartHere! alltogether... one can dream!

Yatun have a free driver - available to dealers on their website which will do this. Not: they have 3 drivers... You need to choose the right one! Two will do this. One won't.

Sounds very impressive... Lots of competition in the Alexa driver space soon...

Thanks guys. Got it!

Looks really great! I am jealous!

Why are delays bad while timers are good? Is this a bug in how the OS works?

It is time that C4 let users change icons for any driver in HE (even allowing changes easily in Pro - I could then twist my dealers arm to make things look nicer - would be OK)...

I think that would be great... Hope C4 is reading and would love them to give icon flexibility to the end user!

Maybe some day soon C4 will give a bunch of standard icons and the ability to link them in from Composer (preferably HE :-))

I believe it can be done. Personally I use the Pentair system which integrates fairly well. Very well in fact bar one or two minor bugs...

Definitely the best Home Automation system out there... C4 that is.

Thanks!

As a matter of interest, what is the advantage of a controller reboot over a director restart?

Glad you got it working! The new security proxy really is neat.

Fair point... I should have dropped the word master!

Good luck! I must say it sounds strange. I am using the DSC driver with the new security proxy and when the dealer set it up we had to choose how many partitions to load and it named them correctly. Can you see all your zones wishing the new security system? It is just possible that your dealer added partition 1 and called it partition 2... But that would be a bit silly! Your dealer is correct that your master code will need to be entered.

I think that you have answered your own question. You can't expect to arm partition 1 when trying to control partition 2. If your actual system only has 1 partition then you need to ask your dealer why he has set up more than one partition on C4 (or why he as set up partition 2 rather than 1 which really won't work). You could try clicking (not sure that one clicks with ones finger... But clicking sounds more correct than touching) where it shows Partition 2. This should give you the option to change to partition 1. You can then try arming from there. That said, reading your description, I am a bit doubtful as to whether partition 1 will have been set up correctly? My best advice is to call your dealer!