Dr Shafty

Eggz the only other dealer is the one that did my last house. You're right, relying on someone new to a particular technology is risky. The new guy is someone I've known from other walks of life, I've seen his work with Crestron and its impeccable. I'm going in eyes open and fingers crossed..

Don't know if it was a handshake issue. Most of the video issues involved mismatched rooms/audio/video, ie selecting a video source in one room and having the audio come on in another. This was maddening and persisted through 8 years of ownership and multiple efforts by the installer/integrator to de bug. Which by the way they never rewrote the original code so..

Understood. My installer is Crestron certified; only recently has begun retailing and installing Control4. How steep is the learning curve for Netplay integration? As previously noted my last home was all Control4; I believe now that the issues I had with the system were primarily due to shoddy initial coding

to clarify; my last system had an 8 zone audio matrix, and an 8 zone amplifier, both Control4. The Netplay video solution causes some issue with sync? and that the audio matrix needs a compensation. And that the Triad is not accordingly suitable. If I understand your reply you'd use the Control4 EA5 or similar for backbone, but for the rest of the system use Video Storm components?

Just how well it integrates with the EA5, and the Triad TS-PAMP8-100 My primary issue with my prior Control4 install was glitchy video.

Sorry I didn't read this completely. I like a completely uncluttered wall. Also, having a single remote device is great. When playing a video source, having the audio playing through the built in 5.1 speakers is also essential

We have a large closet set aside for AV rack, pulling CAT6 to every room. Centralized is definitely what we like and want. Our experience with a full Control4 rack was mixed. That said it was 10 years ago, I'm sure things have improved a bunch. The most annoying aspect of our previous install was the glitchy video matrix. Most of the time it worked ok, from time to time we'd get ghosts that were really hard to exorcise. We have planned distributed audio to 8 locations, distributed video to 4. Various other Control4 applications including lighting, HVAC, and security. Just trying to decide whether to spend ~$8k on a video matrix, or trying out a software based distribution.

Been discussed elsewhere, but we are starting construction on our new home and need to make a decision on where to spend our $$. Our last home (10 years ago) we built with full Control4 install, it was buggy and we never were really happy with it. Our new home will have a Control4 backbone, but our prior experience with Control4 video matrix issues has led me to seek alternatives. Everything I've read about Netplay video distribution is compelling. thoughts, advice?