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That is helpful. Interestingly, Bromic never suggested this, even though my contractor had about half a dozen conversations asking about this. We actually just had the heaters installed a few weeks ago; the best we were able to do is have Control4 control on/off behavior using an ELK relay. Is there a Control4 driver for the Home Automation Link device? I don't see anything in the resources page, and I'm guessing that asking Bromic will once again prove unhelpful. Thanks a lot for the tip!

Too bad. I had gotten excited about Matterlink for a minute! Thanks for the clarification.

We have two Bromic Patio heaters that use RF remotes. The specs say the remotes use 916 Mhz as their frequency. From what I understand, this lies outside the range of frequencies compatible with Bond Bridge. Are there any other alternatives to Bond bridge out there that would let us integrate the RF control of this device into Control4? Thanks!

Right. And the patterns mimic your actual in-home usage, as well as any changes over time in how you operate lights, shades, AV equipment, and so on.

I don’t use KNX, but if I understand you correctly, this problem has a solution. 1. When Relay 1 is closed, set your experience button state to on 2. When Relay 1 is open, set the experience button state to off 3. When the experience button is selected (not set to on), toggle the Relay 1 state. This approach will allow you to track the state with your experience button, operate the relay with your experience button, and still operate the relay with any other control method you already have set up. There will not be an infinite loop. I hope this helps.

Huh. That's interesting. Our climate is about as forgiving as it gets, so maybe that is worth a try.

https://www.axxind.com/smarthome/plug-in-chime/

Hi, I've been looking for something like this too. My dealer suggested a regular Yale lock with a weatherproof box, but that seemed less than ideal. Any chance you could suggest a couple of brands or models for me to research? Thanks!

Weird, I had something similar happen a few days ago too. One of our three T3s started acting crazy. The top line on the screen kept repeating all the way down the screen. Power cycling would cause the screen to restart and then immediately go black. This happened repeatedly. I ended up draining the battery and then putting it back on its cradle, and since then, it seems to be perfectly fine. I wonder if it was a bad update pushed to the touch screens that affected some of them adversely.

For us, it's a slight delay to connect to video. If we are calling from a wired touch screen to wifi touch screen, the audio from the wifi side will come up on the wired screen almost instantly, but it sometimes takes an extra second for the video feed to come up with it. There is no sync issue between the audio/video though, at least nothing that problematic.

Out of curiosity, what are the pain points you are thinking of? Like you, we use Alexa for voice control. I looked into Josh, and my dealer met with them in person, because they are just down the street. However, the discussion with Josh was somewhat slow-moving and cumbersome, and I ended up losing interest, because I didn't see a ton of compelling reasons to switch. This may be context-specific; we are primarily a Sonos/Roku household, and Alexa does a pretty good job integrating those particular devices, as well as C4 lighting and our Yale/C4 locks. And, we've all gotten used to Alexa commands to the point where the Josh natural language advantages are mitigated. Nonetheless, I'm curious if you know of other functionality advantages that Josh possesses? It is definitely cool technology, and I'm almost looking for reasons to want it. Thanks!

In my experience, it's pretty similar except for video calls, where you may experience a tiny bit longer delay when a wifi screen is involved.

One of our 10" Tabletop T3's started misbehaving. The top row of the screen, with the room name, just repeats all the way down the screen. I tried power cycling multiple times to no avail. Is there some way to hard reset or factory reset the unit? Thanks!

I have had Honeywell TotalConnect and Ecobee thermostats. I found the Honeywell thermostats to respond to complex programming much less reliably than the Ecobee. This is especially true if you are addressing many thermostats -- we have 7 different thermostats in a zoned system. The Honeywell driver may have gotten better, but this is based on my experience with it about 2-3 years ago. I also find that the Ecobee "comfort mode" paradigm very convenient for programming, because you can essentially set up 3-4 "scenes" for each of your thermostats and then switch among them programmatically. Plus, it's easy to edit the "scenes" on the thermostats without having to redo or unwind all your programming. I agree that the cloud service can be a bit of a drag; I find myself reconnecting every couple of months.

Paul, I just want to check to make sure I understand. Would the following work as the routine way to close the blinds programmatically: If blinds are not fully closed: Then close the blinds; Else: 1) inform blind of up/open; and 2) Close the blinds. Will this code work fine even in the case where the C4 state is "fully closed" and the blind itself is indeed fully closed? I assume in this case, the RF "close" command is issued by the Somfy Urtsi but then appropriately ignored by the motor -- is that correct? Thanks! Again, this is a very cool feature.

Wow, very cool! Thanks, Paul.

Thanks for clarifying. I was hoping there was a clean solution, since the old-school (V1) Somfy shade driver didn’t have this issue. It is a bit mystifying to me though, as I don’t see an obvious downside of issuing an RF close command in the “fully closed” state — worst-case is that the shade motor ignores the command.

We use the Cinegration Somfy driver with a Somfy Urtsi to control our Somfy shades. We also use the Somfy shade remotes, and this causes a problem I haven't been able to fix. If the Cinegration driver thinks the shades are closed, then programmatically issuing a "close" command has no effect -- i.e., there is no "close" command actually sent to the shade motors. This causes problems whenever someone has previously opened the shades using the Somfy remote, instead of using C4. Is there a way to force the driver to issue a "close" command, regardless of what it thinks the status of the shade is? Is this a problem with the Cinegration driver? Would switching to the Domosapiens driver solve this problem for us? (A workaround is to issue "open" commands before a close, but this becomes incredibly annoying, since sometimes the shades are actually closed to start with.) Thanks!

Is there a variable or some other way to program against Control4 losing its linkage to the Ecobee network? I always end up discovering it by chance, but it would be nice to know when it happens, if possible. Thanks!

Well, seeing as how our kids rarely remember to turn off the music when they leave a room, we can easily have 6-7 different streams going simultaneously, especially on a weekend! We are an all-Sonos household with one Sonos unit for each zone in the house.

Got it. Thanks for the helpful advice!

Do the Smart Bridge Pro and RA2 Select Bridge just require a plain old ethernet connection to my network? Or do I need a serial connection running directly from a C4 controller?

We are replacing a set of Somfy motors that are about 7 years old. We have not had a terribly great experience with the Somfy motors; they have required about 1-2 service calls per year, and they are louder than I expected them to be. I was thinking of moving to Lutron, because I've read (mostly on this forum) that their shades are extremely quiet and reliable, and work well with C4. Does anybody have recommendations on which Lutron motorized shade lines I might investigate for our context? Are there any concerns with Lutron that others have run into? Thanks!

I see. I don't know the answer to that question. What you say makes sense -- only the simultaneously playing streams may matter -- but I don't know enough about what is going on under the hood to do more than guess. In any event, I hope you enjoy the Plus as much as we have!! It is very nice to have Sonos integrated into C4.

As far as I know, the Roon C4 driver requires a Nucleus and will not work with any other Roon server configuration. I dimly recall my dealer saying that the Nucleus could handle 3 simultaneous streams with DSP going, but more than that requires the Plus. I am not super confident about my recollection though. @time2jet may be able to give you a better answer to that question.