South Africa C4 user

Sorry, nope.

I must say, this looks really cool.  The only thing that disappoints me is the mould reading.  I was very excited to see mould being monitored.  But when I read the detail on the Airthings website, it appears that the mould is not actually measured but rather the devices measure the conditions and report on the likelihood of mould (e.g. high humidity makes mould more likely).  

Does the Annex4 driver not handle this?

14 hours ago, msgreenf said:

The right solution is to upgrade to os 3.  Switching properties is very fast now. Ask @South Africa C4 user

Hear hear! Strongly recommend OS3 and it is simple enough to switch between properties in one app.

4 hours ago, Cyknight said:

It's not a T3 vs T4 or a combo option: they're working just fine for me here (literaly, I can see a T3 and a T4 from where I'm typing this, and both are using photo screensaver).

This part I don't know about BTW - I'm talking about the photo screensaver working as such.

Right? Same here, if they don't work I get complaints quicker than if a TV doesn't work.

 

Anyway, i did have a small issues after a recent update, where photos were frozen and Composer was throwing similar errors - in my case the USB stick that holds my pictures was in unknown stae - i ONLY rebooted the contreoller that had it inserted and things came back - might be worth a try if that's how you're doing it.

 

What is your storage setup ... using a NAS?

Thanks! I m using a USB stick and have tried rebooting the controller (hosting the stick).  No luck.  What is weird is that the date screensaver is also not working on the T4s.  Nor is a custom screensaver using album artwork (and that is Tidal streaming) so basically whenever one of the T4s goes into screensaver mode, it goes to a blank screen.  And yet the T3s work perfectly. Quite bizarre!

I’m seeing a few issues on the screensaver agent on the latest OS. Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions.

At both my residences, I can’t view the photos in the Media tab for the Screensaver.  I get an invalid location message.  Which is nonsense as I can in fact add photos (via the media tab) and they get added to the screensavers and I see them appearing on my touchscreen.

Much more seriously, at my Beach house, I have both T3s and T4s and following the first hard reboot after the latest OS update from a few weeks ago, the T4s have stopped showing any screensavers. When a screensaver is present (be it photos, custom with album artwork or date and time), the T4s simply show a blank screen.  

I have tried the obvious things (rebooting the T4s, a complete rack reboot and refreshing navigators) - none of these work.  I also checked an EA controller OSD and the screensaver is working fine there.  As I have more than one T4 in the setup, it can’t  / shouldn’t be hardware.  I haven’t checked the other AA and core controllers but assume they all work fine.

Would really appreciate any suggestions as I did the reboot this morning and I already have family members moaning about the “digital photo frames” not working.  One doesn’t realise how cool it is until it vanishes.

As I’ve not had this problem at my main residence (which also has T4s in the setup), I have to assume that something about my Beach House project is unique and creating the issue in OS3.4.1.  The only thing I can think of is the fact that I have T3s and T4s.  I don’t have any T3s at my main residence.  Either that or some software patch was pushed in the last few days and broke my T4s and I will find the same issue when I go back to my main residence if I do a reboot…

TIA

7 hours ago, msgreenf said:

I don't recall if that one has auto update. I think due to the firmware update embedded in it it doesn't. 

Mine seems to auto update but it may also be my dealer dialling in and updating it fairly regularly

The colour buttons are programmed at room level (choosing the room on the left hand side of composer) and then there is a drop down menu (“command”, from memory) and you choose “red” or “blue” etc. in this drop down menu.

Yes - or at least there used to be one available on the C4 web-site.  I must confess to not having looked at it for 7 or 8 years.

1 minute ago, msgreenf said:

There is new ts2 firmware that I don't believe we've applied to your system. Since we haven't updated you in a while. I would also look at that

Why not set the driver to auto update? I’m pretty sure that the DS2 driver is one of the C4 database drivers that supports this feature?  Not that I am necessarily an advocate of this…

I have a custom button that reboots my DS2 using programming.  It works perfectly.  I am not at home right now to check how the programming works but there is no external hardware involved so it is either a reboot command on the DS2 driver itself or one of these controller reboot drivers (everyone had them at one stage - HouseLogix, Annex4 via their Link driver, Driver Central via its cloud driver etc.) using the IP address to reboot it.  I will check when I can.

7 hours ago, Shoe said:

You aren't showing what's possible on the actions side for your integration.

This - actions and variables available in the driver.

With Tidal merging its 2 paid for tiers, will users who were on the lower tier and will now gain access to high definition audio have to change anything on the Control4 side of things or will the improved audio simply be heard from 10 April onwards?

56 minutes ago, Shoe said:

Doing this kind of thing can lead to confusion for future readers. It's always best to leave the content unless it’s a broken link etc.

This! There are now 4 or 5 responses posted that make so sense as the original post is totally different from what it used to be.

4 minutes ago, msgreenf said:

Does it matter? Are you ever going to use vol 1 or 100? 

Nope.  Didn’t worry me until I saw this post and then it was more of a challenge to see if I could get it working right on my setup 

A couple of thoughts:

1. Make sure you don’t have a default volume set for the room if you are using the AVRs default volume.

2. Similarly make sure you don’t have a default volume set via a room control driver.

3. Try changing the default volume on the AVR. I had a similar problem to you where (for some reason), using a default starting volume of 50 on my Denon AVR, it was displaying as 49.5 and it was always 0.5 out from Control4.  This has never really bothered me.  But I fiddled today and seem to have fixed it.  I changed the AVR default starting volume to 60 (I also enabled max volume at 80 - which I had not done previously).   Everything worked perfectly thereafter.  I suspect that the issue and I may be totally wrong relates to the AVR range being 0-98 and not 0-100 and the AVR does som funny calculation when setting the default starting volume and occasionally gets the rounding wrong.  I am not sure if that is on what it sends to C4 or what it displays but I actually suspect the latter as I was seeing 49.5 , 50.5 etc.  now I see 60, 61 etc and can go all the way up or down without a problem.

38 minutes ago, msgreenf said:

That doesn't make sense. You shouldn't have to do that 

In fact, doing that, may well create a loop that sends your volume rapidly up to maximum volume which could create chaos…

Something is very wrong and I would remove that line of code before things become much worse.

I had a few similar issues after updating to the second release of 3.4.1 but got rid of them by doing a hard reboot of all secondary controllers.  I still have one media related issue (documented elsewhere) but don’t think it is related to your problem in anyway.

I also experienced a corruption (impacting digital media) on one of my secondary controllers following the update to the first release of OS 3.4.1 and my dealer had to reflash the OS on that controller.

As far as I know, there is no way to do this.

I was also an Apple Music fan and eventually moved to Tidal in order to get decent integration with C4.  My view is that Tidal and Deezer have the best integration.  Although some people really like the Spotify integration.

If you want real flexibility without programming too much, linking Josh into C4 is said to be a great option.

I don’t have T3s in my home setup but can confirm that the DS2 is playing nicely with the T4s.  I have a DS2 and a couple of T3s at my Beach House and will make a point of seeing if they are working when I am there next weekend.

7 hours ago, Versafel Systems said:

 Would just be way cooler if is said 12.9v or 80% or something in the middle of the button along with the colours.

This is exactly what the bNet Solutions (bIcons driver mentioned above does.  Set up the driver, choose the low voltage battery icon set and link it to the relevant variable.  Then you will have exactly what you are looking for. See my generator battery voltage of 27.5 volts below.

2 hours ago, RAV said:

There's one in the online database.

If Google translate is working properly then the OP is saying that he has already tried this but cannot make the connections from his KNX setup.  I can understand that as I use the driver you mention in some cases and the Yatun one in others (as it is more flexible).

I had this problem for a long time (allegedly due to the size of my project actually to the amount of certain memory types used by certain drivers).  If you move to OS3.4.1, the problem should resolve itself.

7 hours ago, m.gurrado said:

The YATUNDEV driver was been closed. I couldn't find no one similar driver. 

Thank you for you disponibility.

If you DM me your email address, I can send this to you,

If you can get your hands on the old Yatun Temperature display driver, it should do what you are after. It is a free driver that used to be (may still be) available on the Yatun website.