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Hi C4 Community, Yesterday I updated the customers C4 system which includes a Core3 and CA-1 to the last OS 3.3. The main controller updated just fine but the CA-1 was stuck for several hours failing to update and retrying. At some point I made the mistake to power cycle the CA-1 and now it is stuck at boot. Now When switching on the CA-1 the LED flashes blue shortly and then is off. I have tried to factory reset it but I'm getting a Factory Reset error. Is there a way to recover it? Maybe there is a default Static IP it goes in that I need to use for the Device imager to load a new image on? Help would be appreciated as the Agents are unavailable today and for some reason posting on the dealer forum did not work. Thanks

Just wanted to say that I'm a big fan of the Bond Bridge and show another use case. We have used it now in 5 projects and my home and it works great. We mostly use it for Ceiling fans that are available in our region (Indonesia) and for Somfy Blinds. In my house I've also used it for things like motorised projector screen and to integrate a very cheap wireless doorbell chime when my mechanical one failed. Just copied the door bell RF signal and then added it as a generic device. In Control4 if door bell button gets pressed then the chime goes off immediately. I was very impressed by how fast it is. Going to make a larger import order for the new Bond Pro devices as I have it spected in all our up coming projects here.

have you tried a different lan cable? That can usually happen if the lan cable is damaged so it lowers the speed to 100 mbps which only needs 4 of the 8 cores working of a cat6 cables. I'm using Unifi gear in my home and the Shield is getting 1000mbps with no issues.

Edit: A few hours later after a few more reboots it suddenly started to work.... I do not know what exactly did it. Hopefully they will update the driver to take out this randomness. I've tried that but I still can't get it to work. It does allow me to start MiniDriver apps like Netflix and youtube but I can't navigation to work. I've tried your suggestion, tired to use the IP instead of SDDP, rebooted it a few times.... any thing else you did which might have helped? Here is the Debug log when I press the down button: ReceivedFromProxy(): DOWN on binding 5001; Call Function PRX_CMD.DOWN() . ROOM_ID: 35 BEGIN: 815181812 DEVICE_ID: 36 SEND_COMMAND_FROM_COMMAND_TABLE(), idBinding=5001, command_name=DOWN GetCommand() command = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <url>/RemoteService/control</url> <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <s:Body> <u:KeyEventAction xmlns:u="urn:nvidia-com:service:RemoteService:1-0"> <Keycode>20</Keycode> </u:KeyEventAction> </s:Body> </s:Envelope> PackAndQueueCommand(), command_name = DOWN, command delay set to 150 MILLISECONDS Starting Timer: SendCommand Starting Send Timer: 3 for DOWN (timer_interval = 150, timer_units = MILLISECONDS) ReceivedFromProxy(): END_DOWN on binding 5001; Call Function PRX_CMD.END_DOWN() . DURATION: 74 ROOM_ID: 35 DEVICE_ID: 36 ReceivedFromProxy: Unhandled command = END_DOWN Send Timer expired Send Timer expired - Last Command: DOWN, Send Next Command DeviceConnectionBase:SendNextCommand

Hi, I've done some installs with HikVision before but not together with a Control4 system. I'm curious to know if you have experience with the Hikvision AcuSense line which is supposed to be able to identify if the motion is made by a human or not. We would like to be able to use that as a trigger to switch on the light on the outside areas of a project we are planing. Since this villa is in the jungle of Ubud there might be monkeys there and other wild animals so if that system could only trigger the light when it detects a motion event by a human it would be awesome. Cheers

Another one UP for Sony Android TVs. We just finished in install for a new family home with 6 Sony TVs and it all works great and was very quick to integrate. Plus Sony has a good range of mid to high-end TVs. In this Project we have installed the J90 series plus J80 for the Kids and Guest room.

In my home I put the Room control driver to have the music button cycle through pre-set favorites/Playlists. Then I set-up a long press on that music button to switch off the music. You need to use the Timer agent for that.

For my set-up the driver is working well, have not tired the Varietas Driver yet. But looking at my Homebridge status I do see several times error codes. Just sharing here so that it might help to improve the driver with future updates. [8/22/2021, 11:06:56 AM] [homebridge-websocket-dti] This plugin generated a warning from the characteristic 'Target Temperature': characteristic value expected valid finite number and received "NaN" (number). See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [8/22/2021, 11:06:56 AM] [homebridge-websocket-dti] This plugin generated a warning from the characteristic 'Target Heating Cooling State': characteristic value expected valid finite number and received "NaN" (number). See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [8/22/2021, 11:06:56 AM] [homebridge-websocket-dti] This plugin generated a warning from the characteristic 'Current Heating Cooling State': characteristic value expected valid finite number and received "NaN" (number). See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info.

If you are getting a splitter then it might be worth using one with edid copy function. Sometimes my Nvidia shield loosed Video signal when switching between my Samsung 4k TV and my Benq 4k projector. Switching inputs to a different source usually fixed the issue. A splitter which would copy the edid from my Samsung TV would probably fix the issue.

BlackNova also have fancy touch based keypads. i have personally not used them yet but I‘m planing on getting some for our showroom. They are wired rs485 keypads and have a gateway which integrates with Control4. https://blacknova.co

I second that I‘ve used that driver a few times and even use it in my home as I also have a TV and Projector set-up in my living room. You don‘t need to put a fake room with that driver

Looking forward to the square UK/EU style of them. Might still take a few months though

We have just recently installed two Epson 6050ub and they deliver great quality for the price and have motorised lens which is great if you have a cinemascope screen. But do not expect the inky blacks and dynamic HDR which you will get with the JVX DLA-NX5.

Usually it‘s a combination of Both. ARC send the audio signal and CEC is doing the control. With most SmartTVs from the last 5 years that should work. But beware that Arc and Cec is not always reliable. Sometimes the connection is lost and then you need to power cycle all and maybe enable CEC again and choose the ARC device in the TV menu. Very user unfriendly and service call to us. had same issues with AVRs connected to TVs. ended up using optical Toslink again because it is just more reliable and for some smartTV IP driver you can even send command to use optical Toslink cable.

Oh I did not realize that. This is indeed better. I‘ll contact the Singapore distributor to import some test units