janthony6

On 12/19/2020 at 11:58 PM, RL4NB said:

My dealer installed C4 system in my house a few years ago.  Every time I contact him to make changes it takes him weeks to respond.  Frankly, I’m done waiting for him...Since I’m very tech savvy, I would love to customize my own system and have a 4sight subscription and my system is on OS3.  Is this possible?

Absolutely. 

Moving and don't need this anymore. Rarely ever used so it's in great shape. 

$150

My control4 house is sold and closes escrow at the end of the month. Curious how others have handled the transfer to a new owner. We have 4sight licenses until April 2021 and the system is registered to me. 

Do I just give the new owner a dealer to contact and move on? My new house doesn't use c4 so I won't be taking any stuff with me there. 

I will have a couple remotes to sell though.

I noticed 2n IP Base has an HD Camera and the IP Verso has a fingerprint reader or touchscreen option.  Can you use Intercom Anywhere with this or does it require a DS2?

Looking into buying a new house and doing control4 in it. 

5 hours ago, eggzlot said:

???  It’s a dealer based platform.  End users cannot add the drivers on their own 

don't worry about that.

Also - I've now tested the driver.  It's not worth the money and isn't substantially better than the Camera Test driver that everyone is currently using.  Reason being is that the MAJORITY of people with these cameras are running Unifi Protect.  The Standalone is fairly useless but that's the only one that supports snapshots.

We need a driver that allows us to input the snapshot URL.  In Protect, you can manually log in to your camera and turn on the snapshot ability.  I use this in homebridge and my snapshot URL looks like this for one camera: 

Needs to be easier to purchase a license. Not everyone uses a dealer.

7 hours ago, ejn1 said:

You can play video camera stream on navigator.   If you want more than that then no.   For me this is all I need.   Just another FYI...   A guy has written a camera app for Apple TV for $2.99.   It plays all of the Unifi Protect camera streams up to 1080P and full screen.  Also have thumbnails.    It’s called CCTV Viewer.   After a few days of use,  I find it much more practical for viewing vs through the C4 Navigator.

Or just use the official unifi protect app on Apple TV. 

there’s also the UniFi protect viewport that connects the feed to to an hdmi source for viewing on a screen.  

USG is old and damn near dead.  That’s a bad red.

UDM or UDM-Pro are the correct answers.

For setting EDID on a directv 4K box - what should the setting be?  Content switches between 720, 1080, and 4K based on the channel.  Channel 104 and 105 is typically 4K HDR HLG for sports.

Closing in on a new home purchase - here’s some things it has:

2-3 Ethernet at every tv stop.  All Ethernet and audio runs into an AV closet.  
 

2 rooms are already 5.1 and few others are pre-wired for it.  Audio in patio, kitchen, bathroom, etc.

would it be better to install my denon AV receivers in the AV closet and use baluns for video? Or should I get c4 video matrix setup? I’d like to use the audio to easily switch audio from different sources to different speakers - would I need an audio matrix too?  Another c4 amp? 
 

or would it be better to use receivers? I don’t suppose you can send Dolby Vision 4K over a video matrix right? 

I’d also like to be able to airplay music in any room.  

I don’t really understand how the video and audio matrix work or what I’d need in my AV closet so any help would be appreciated. 

15 hours ago, prabeau said:

Probably should go on the dealer forum 

Where’s that? I’m not a dealer. 

I do all my programming in composer pro.  It’s possible for any user to do it.  
 

im interested in finding out if savant has anything like composer pro that an end user can figure out.

I may be getting a new home soon.  I currently use Control4 and would have ditched it if not for learning how to program it myself.  

The house that I’m closing in on was designed to be used with either so I’m curious about how Savant might be better and if it requires a dealer to do everything or if the user can use their software to make changes as well.  I really like how their stuff is very Apple.

The house is designed for all the tvs to use a balun going to one central closet that houses all the networking, audio, video, etc.  

Any advice would be appreciated. 

I fixed this in my homebridge.

you can check it out on Homebridge-chamberlain

- they changed to a newer api so you need to update to:

User-Agent': 'myQ/14041 CFNetwork/1107.1 Darwin/19.0.0

also they use new device id’s now.  The opener id is longer now and starts with a CG.

I got it working.  It has to be on live tv first.  Then you do the procedure from there.

I have 2 control4 thermostats for sale if anyone wants it

For anybody else with issues with this, I got this working on my 77c9

using the magic remote:

- click live tv - wait for static or whatever to show up

- hold settings for 5 seconds until the channel banner appears

- press 828 and then click the wheel and it should load the ip control screen.  
 

- turn everything on, go to composer and it will auto discover the tv.  Add the tv to your home and it loads the driver.  Set your connections, I added lg YouTube and lg Netflix. 
 

- go back to the tv and generate key

- add key under the driver in composer

- refresh navigators 

Having some trouble with cursor focus - I press settings on remote and hover over network and press the code and nothing happens. 

I can’t imagine using my c4 system without homekit.

i use the homebridge driver and a raspberry pi.  I have a bunch of drivers installed on it and control pretty much everything with it and have all my automations setup in my Apple home app.  

Well I couldn’t care less about the c4 integration.  I do it but it’s not as important as homekit.  Using Siri on my watch, phone, or homepods to control the house is a must have feature for all my stuff.

Well I switched from ecobee to nest a few years ago.  Since they dropped support and my homekit for nest broke, I now switched to the new ecobee5.  Installed it yesterday and so far it works great and the c4 driver is great. Native homekit support too. Ecobee has come a long way since last go around and the all glass face is much nicer than the plastic they used to use.

19 hours ago, lippavisual said:

IP cam compatibility driver.  You insert your own url's.

I’m using that.  It doesn’t work.  It creates a url that requires the snapshot and rtsp to be on the same IP.

Is there any camera driver available that allows you to use a different snapshot URL?

example:

UniFi Protect has an rtsp stream from the NVR IP.

the snapshot is from the specific camera IP which is different than the NVR.  

23 minutes ago, janthony6 said:

I have everything up and running except for Apple Bridge.  App won't connect to it and throws an error every time.  I've tried deleting the bridge in composer and reinstalling it, makes no difference.  app just doesn't allow it to turn on.  anybody else have it working in the 3.0 ios app? 

got it working.  had the old apple tv driver instead of the 4/4k driver.  

I have everything up and running except for Apple Bridge.  App won't connect to it and throws an error every time.  I've tried deleting the bridge in composer and reinstalling it, makes no difference.  app just doesn't allow it to turn on.  anybody else have it working in the 3.0 ios app?