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How do you track issues, problems, punch list items? We are currently trying to use a spreadsheet that's emailed around to everyone which works fine when there are few issues but becomes unwieldy with a lot of issues. A shared Google Docs sheet might work but it can be difficult to set up with proper permissions and historically I've found that people other than programmers have a hard time with it. Builder Trend has something but it's somewhat lacking. For instance, Status is only a checkmark for completed. Realistically status s/b something like: Active, Pending, Vendor Complete, Builder Complete, Owner Complete. Or alternatively, each (vendor, builder, owner) have their own status of Active, Pending, Complete. It also doesn't have a way to track notes on an issue. Ideally it should allow anyone to add a note (that can be marked visible or private) so that everyone can see a chronological listing of everyones visible notes along with their private notes. A way to indicate something like New Functionality Request (owner pays), Existing Functionality, Bug (E.G., a C4 bug that's causing owner problems) would be good. Is there something out there that does a good job of this? Thanks,

I cannot get a loop tab for while loops in my Composer HE v3.1.3. My integrator does have them in his HE Pro. According to the HE manual I should have them. Thoughts ?? Thanks,

Another issue we're having is execution. When we can create a scene with some LIFX lamps with proper values and then execute the scene we feel like we're playing roulette. For example, going from a scene of three LIFX lamps being 3000° @ 100% to two of them being blue (color=59) @ 100% we'll see a variety of colors appear in the lamps and will sometimes, after some time, get to what they are supposed to be. Sometimes not. One might get to the proper blue and another might give end up white of some temp. These lamps all work properly w/ the LIFX app. Internet connection is 1gb with very low latency and no recorded dropouts. Thoughts? Thanks.

$300 was somewhat (except in California:-) a euphemism. Regardless the cost an end user shouldn't have to contact an integrator or anyone else just to add a light bulb. Can you imagine if every time you bought a new printer or plugged in a USB stick you had to call Dell or Apple to tell your system it existed? This is a very outdated way of doing things.

On a related note. There needs to be a way for homeowners to add their own lamps. You can't tell someone that every time they buy a new light bulb that they have to pay an integrator $300 to turn it on. That's where Alexa and similar systems will beat out C4 and make it obsolete.

We have 64 LIFX lamps in the C4 system of a new house and are experiencing some critical problems with sliders; returning to prior setting, and moving on their own. We saw this with some testing a couple of years ago but then for no known reason went away and never reappeared so somewhat stupidly we chalked it up to a once-off anomaly. For instance. I change the Color from 69 to 31. It stays at 31 for a second or two and then moves back to 69. Same for saturation. It's @ 50% and if I change it to 84% it stays for a few seconds and then reverts back to 50%. Sometimes I'll get totally phantom movement. At some point the color was 82% (can't get it back to that now). When I moved it down to 35% it stayed for a few seconds and then moved back to 82%. Then maybe 20 seconds later jumped to 69% where it now seems to want to be regardless of what we tell it. This seems somewhat like there is something else forcing this but we can't find anything. We'll keep playing with it on Monday to see what else we can learn.

A couple of questions: - How does a homeowner add a new lamp, move a lamp to a new location (e.g., rename, reassign room), etc? - Is it possible to have a light group rather than individual lamps? E.G., a hallway with 4 LIFX lamps that should mostly be controlled together and not show up individually taking up screen space? - Can the sliders for color and color temp be changed to use meaningful labels rather than 0-100? - Will the new LIFX v4 app and lamp firmware provide any better integration w/ Control4? Thanks,