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Thanks for the tip on Guided Access. I've enabled that and have been using it all day. So far, I vote for getting the Dedicated Mode functionality back. When I enabled Guided Access it worked fine until the screen saver kicked in. When the screen saver starts you have to press the Home button to "wake up" the iPad. The iOS home screen appears, and after a second or so the C4 app starts, but it has to load so there is a delay. Just like other posters have mentioned the start up time for the app is a lot longer than it was in OS2. In OS2 Dedicated Mode, you could touch the screen to wake up the app and it was there, already running. I think removing Dedicated Mode was a step backwards. Other features in OS3? Great job. I love the favorites. The navigation is cleaner. Adding functionality and scenes to a room is much much better than having to do the programming in Composer.

What is Supervised Mode? I don't see that in C4 settings.

What happened to the "Dedicated Mode"? I had that on an iPad in an iPort on the wall. Since the upgrade I have to launch the application every time I want to use C4. I liked dedicated mode. I don't need the iPad features. I just want to be able to use the Navigator.

Send email alert when guests access guest network based on schedule or other parameters (away, vacation, night time).

I am not familiar with experience buttons. Can you point me in that direction? I am only using Composer HE as I am the home owner. But I've done a LOT of programming for my system since we have integrated: AV, Shades, Doors, Door Openers, Security, Cameras, and Lighting. I've implemented a number of "Schedules" and triggers, like doors opening, or motion detection on the cameras. I send emails and text messages too. So, if there's something new I can do, I'd like to give it a try.

I contacted my dealer. With the Composer Pro they could see the AMS did not have a static IP. The IP was assigned from the UID, the way they explained it to me. I gave them the static IP it should have been, and everything is working now. I have one of the outputs of the AMS connected to the Sonarray AMP and connected to the "Garden" room. I have added programming for all 4 custom buttons in the "Garden", "Lanai", and "Garage" for my wife to choose what she wants to listen to and where (Garden, Lanai, Garage, etc). With the custom button programming she can choose which stations she wants to listen to and with the push of one button, turn on all of the outside zones at the same time.

Thanks for the reply. No, no orange triangle. I've power cycled the entire network, switches, router, C4, amp, Audio Switch, everything. Been at this for almost 9 hours trying to figure out what happened to the switch settings in Composer. My dealer is out today, so no support until tomorrow at the earliest. I do as much programming as I can with Home Composer. I was trying to wing it for the weekend without having a "Garden Room". For the time being I bypassed the switch and went straight to the Sonarray Amp so at least we can use Sonos and change stations with that.

I have an HC800 and C4 16X16 Audio Matrix switch (16ZAMSV3-B). This has been in place for a couple of years and was working fine until today. I connected a Sonarry amp to the Audio Out #6 port. I don't have an outside "Room" to select "Listen To" so I added an Advanced Lighting Scene in Home Composer 2.9.0, to "Play" a Sonos Favorites station. I called it "Sirius 16 Garden". I already have a scene like this working on the Lanai and in the Garage. For the Sonarray to work, I did this: Family Room Theater->Audio Switch Connect Audio Output 6 to Audio Input 6 Select Favorite 16 - The Blend in Play on Family Room Theater ->Sonos Sonos This worked for about 5 minutes when I turned on the Lanai Audio to the same Favorite. When I tried "Turn Room Off" of course only the Lanai turned off since it was the only "Room" turned on. I issued a "Family Room Theater->Audio Switch Disconnect Audio Output 6" to get the Sonarry to turn off. After I did that, I could no longer listen to audio anywhere. I noticed in composer, while looking at the Audio Switch Properties in the Monitoring section, that the Audio Switch was set to DHCP. I don't use DHCP for any of my hardware devices. I have static IPs on everything. I changed the setting to Static IP and entered the Static IP, subnet mask and gateway to the settings they should have been. It still does not work. Now every time I log into Home Composer and look at the Audio Switch it's set to DHCP and the device firmware text box is blank. Did I find a bug in Composer that let me screw up the Audio Switch's IP settings?