South Africa C4 user

I recall when I got my first IP controlled LG (5 years ago) that I was advised to get the Annex4 driver as it was much more reliable than the native driver for IP control (particularly on / off functionality).  I have no idea if that is (still) true but I’ve had no regrets with the Annex4 driver and it has been rock solid. 

Ok - figured it out. 
 
For anyone wanting to do the same thing - use room variable CURRENT_SELECTED_DEVICE instead.  That gives you the proxy ID of the driver you want.  Then write some code to set the the name of the source/app.

i use a very similar approach but using C4 keypads.  Great example @Topfox

I think the issue lies in the programming rather than a bug. I may well be wrong though.
Can you post screenshots of your programming?

I only have one matrix switcher for audio.  There is a separate switcher for video but the three rooms I was trying to link are all audio-only.  I think for now I'll just put this issue aside.  Maybe at some point down the road the root cause of the problem will become apparent.
Meanwhile I'm realizing I need to be really careful about interactions between my various automations -- my programming above unintentionally triggered a separate "entertaining" automation linked to the dining room audio that I created a few weeks ago.  I might have to start documenting some of this stuff!    

For Google TTS this should be possible. I'm prepping a release later this week so i'll try to get it added into it

Interesting. It's probably possible, the only thing is figuring out when an announcement ends. I'm not sure from memory if that's possible and if it's not, then reverting to the previous volume becomes a bit of a guessing game?
Side note, those who are looking for the announcements driver not to rely on internet. What if it cached the files we get from the TTS system? I'd need to think about it some more as we don't really want to cache dozens of announcements a day (caching a different weather temperature every day would be pointless). But maybe caching "static" announcements could work, and therefore also speed them up.

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Sorry, nope.

Okay - Thank you for sharing your experience.  This is just a matter of pride at this point. I really just want to get this to work. Theoretically it should, and it bugs me that I can't do it  HAHA
Sorry, I didn't know how to quote multiple people on a single reply.  Thank you all for your help. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions if you happen to have any flashbacks of messing with OS2  😋

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

It doesn't auto update. I confirmed 

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

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.

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?

The remote doesn’t display .5 volume.  At least for my Marantz, Denon and Yamaha’s I’ve installed, you'll notice the volume stays on a whole number for 2 button presses.
is that what you’re seeing??
Adding that programming is just going to cause problems. 

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.

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.
 
 

@Nitin, @South Africa C4 user device naming has been added as the top row in Preferences in the app update that is rolling out today.

this - as a very part time / hobby photographer I found taking a photo of a key element in the room better.  For instance, we got some fancy "hand painted" dish on a vacation in Morocco and we use it on our kitchen island.  I tossed some oranges/lemons/limes in the bowl and took a photo, done....For the master bathroom I put the purple LED lights on in the shower (its a steam shower and has colored lights) and took a photo of the shower stall with the door closed right after a steam so the glass is frosted, the lights on are behind with a cool glow, etc.  For the garage you could even use a stock photo of your car(s) or something.  In the gym I took a photo of two dumbbells laying on the floor, etc.  Another idea, if you have a pet, take a photo of them on a couch or in a bed for a specific room, etc.
Taking a photo of the room is just going to look like junk or a really bad real estate listing.

Just an update. I have Josh.ai now and Josh has some options for ducking. It can duck all, just audio, just video and disabled. This works great with Sonos for obvious reasons. To do this in one of the main rooms where I have Josh and have the Josh responses come out of the ceiling speakers while retaining C4 controlled audio on the room I am doing the following:
Gear:
Rolls Ducker Josh Core Josh Micro C4 Matrix Episode amps Config:
Micro is configured to output to Core Audio 1. Core Audio 1 is connected to Rolls Ducker Aux input Zone output from Matrix is connected to Rolls Ducker line Rolls Ducker output is connected to Episode zone input Result:
I am able to play audio to the zone from C4 as this routes correctly. When playing audio from C4 if Josh wants to respond to something the audio comes out of the Core audio 1 output and the Rolls Ducker ducks the C4 audio and plays the announcement. When the announcement is complete the Rolls Ducker passes the C4 audio. So at a small scale of 2 zones this works because I have two outputs on the Core. Since we do not have Josh native output with more than 2 outputs at the moment it would seem my only option is Sonos if and when I need to scale. Since I'm just testing the Josh system and not 100% committed yet I'm fine with the two zone limit at the moment. I'm liking the idea of Sonos in the mix, but retaining the Matrix and C4 audio so the future plan is Sonos port like functionality for each zone in place of the Josh core outputs. That can get me C4 audio, Sonos audio controlled by C4, Josh controlled Sonos audio, Josh announcement ducking for both C4 and Josh music. The Josh Sonos audio can interrupt C4 audio so for any audio announcements to come out of the speakers and work 100% of the time they would need to come from Josh.
 

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.  

No the remote issue with HE is a cloud bug, we have the cloud team working on resolving it. However, the the status still shows as "Fixing", so I don't believe the actual issue is fully resolved yet.  Their is  a comment mentioning a work around being applied for existing HE users to gain remote access though, so if you aren't a brand new HE user then it may be working for you now.

Thank you . i chosed this driver ( Custom Info Display) .  The cost is cheap and it working vary good.

There are various ways to view the data if you have it in Control4 (which requires a thermostat driver or Z2IO driver if applicable etc.).
Viewing data can be done using (amongst others) the following drivers:
bIcons (from bNet Solutions) - one of the more powerful drivers for showing data on an experience button,
Custom Info Display (by Barbini) - a great way of showing a lot of information on one screen.
BMS Monitor (by Janus) - the most powerful of these drivers and very useful if you want to track data (eg temperature and / or humidity) over time and visualise it via a graph(s) within Control4.