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Time2Jet

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  1. Thanks Paul. Please excuse my ignorance, but I believe we are locked to using button 4 or 5 to set cycling of playlists/stations? I’m sorry if I’m wrong, its been a minute since I’ve installed the driver for a client. My recollection was that was the only thing I didn’t love, but otherwise it is fantastic as are all of your keypad drivers. Fantastic work.
  2. I wish there was a way to choose which key. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. Look for the screen icon named what you named the custom button. Since the Touch, I’d name them something like “Buttons” (instead of the room name) and position that icon comfortably on the room’s Home Screen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  4. That project should have zero issues with the Core3 @Gary Leeds UK And constant rebooting would not be what you’d expect if the processing is taxed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  5. Support can look at logs and usually tell them in 10 mins.
  6. What were you upgrading from that handled your processing load? What seems to be eating up processing? The Core3 is pretty adequate for 90% of projects that require 3 simultaneous streams of Ryff. Now that said, the Core series has not been without some launch pains (like anything else), but updates have resolved most known issues. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  7. The limit is zigbee standards, not Control4. Not sure if Control4 adopting the latest iteration would increase that, but that would be a zigbee question versus a c4 question. The c4 guidelines follow establish protocols to ensure the best experience. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  8. Which remote ever launched by anyone is better, bugs withstanding (will get addressed)? Serious question.
  9. Actually, you could just run all 3 with the Triad one and ditch wiring that room back to the rack amp. It will end up being an audio zone like all of the others. Can stream all native services and join/group with other zones. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  10. You add a Triad One and run speaker wire back to it. It will sync with native audio. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  11. To be honest, I don’t think any dealer would swap it out for a Core5 for a few hundred dollars. But even at $1500 it’s a good swap based on the residual value of the EA5 versus the latest price of the Core5. On your case, you wouldn’t see a remarkable difference in processing performance and at this time I don’t think you’d need zwave control. One benefit for you might be that you do get 5 simultaneous unique audio outputs “plus” the HDMI out versus 4 plus the HDMI. The OSD is now 4K, but I don’t see a use-case for that in your project. I’d ride out the EA5 until there is a real benefit to you. They open up something new quite often lately. I’m a dealer and obviously make money on upgrades. But we don’t push the Core series controllers with clients on EA series controllers at this time. Just seems like frivolous. A potential better upgrade right now would be adding a CA-10. But again, your project is perfectly fine with an EA5. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. There is a fantastic free led driver by one of our members @Ryan in the database. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  13. What’s that saying… someone would “bitch if you hung them with a rotten rope”? The Halo Platform Touch Remote is the by far the best remote ever released to date in the AV industry. We’re always going to find something we don’t love or we feel is missing, but they didn’t miss too badly here. And I’m sure as new things roll out, the Halo platform will only get better and better. As a dealer I’m not privy to much more than interested end users (outside of Betas with NDAs), but what we have been told is that there is a lot coming to enhance the experience and the Halo Platform remotes are designed with this in mind. One thing overlooked is that if you use a third-party HomeKit driver setup with a bridge device etc, you can focus on AppleTV and voice control your home via Siri-(ish). $550/$900 net is a big ask, but if we think about what they asked for the SR platform remotes and reconcile to today’s dollars, it’s not insane. I’d suggest everyone try just one. I’m terms of touch, I was shipped Silvers only so far, but I think they look fantastic and I’m one to prefer black remotes. I had the Halo tactile day one. Had reasons to complain (WiFi & battery life issues) but FW fixed all of them. I do miss the 3 customs on the tactile they didn’t carry over to the Touch, but a few experience buttons favorited works. All in all, I’m sure there has never been a better remote launched by anyone to date. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. Thanks for the Sonos Extras trial @DanITman It’s been flawless and definitely makes the Sonos integration much better. I particularly like the Soundbar Modes considering I had bars in every bedroom. So nice to be able to have night & dialog enhance modes favorited to the room on the remotes. Having to reach for my phone at night to open the Sonos app every time was a pain. The Clear Queue feature you added is also huge. Thanks. One favor if you could… My trial expired, do you mind shooting me a new trial until it’s live on DC?
  15. As @LollerAgentmentioned earlier, Bluesound really sounds superior to native and a lot else. Mirage also sounds fantastic, but I notice some issues regarding volume stabilization from track to track. Funny when I really noticed was when a Beyoncé track played it sounded louder than other artists on a Tidal playlist. I can’t be just imagining that.
  16. Spotify strikes again. God I hate Spotify in every way. But I think only integrators and audiophiles hate it. My wife and kids are Spotify all day people. I think the audio is horrid, the entire Spotify Connect thing is absurd (Sonos/Heos) and… I just hate it. Oh, and the app is nice. So that’s my issue. Imagine if it was a native full integration. Even with the horrid audio (who cares in 80% of distributed audio scenarios) it would be so killer.
  17. Fellas - I have an AC-MX-88 HDBT Matrix and a Mix of 40m & 70m Baluns (4+4). The equipment is demo, warranted and all current versions. MSRP for this setup is close to $16K and as you know AVPro gear doesn't typically get discounted. If anyone needs, I will do $6k Firm shipped to the US. PM's Only Please. TIA!
  18. The OSD needs bound at the room level for the C4 Red Button to Pop OSD. Make sure that’s the case in the room you’re in. It also can be bound to multiple rooms. Even when it is bound, even though it will display, the cursor will work, but until you focus on the room you are in, it will control the only room selected in the OSD. (Which can be changed each time or likely a few lines of programming). OSD on a matrix has been traditionally for camera pops and media (what’s playing).
  19. This ^ Modem>Router>Core (Main) switch>secondary switches. APs connected to one of the several switches. I prefer a star topology (where each of your secondary switches connect to your core switch versus each other). This is a very simple to manage/troubleshoot setup. Again, be careful that you don’t have secondary switches then connecting to each other or connecting back to the core switch (to avoid loops). Normally with SFP available, Fiber between the Core and each secondary switch (if you have enough SFP ports on the core, otherwise copper is fine with your Araknis). And since I don’t believe your switches do more than 1g via SFP, SFP won’t really increase handling of traffic vs copper, but fiber will protect a lighting strike from traveling to another switch. The one glaring thing (other than the loop that sounds very likely they way it’s currently wired), it that it’s not a great idea to put a WAP in your control/rack/comms/server room if you are running a zigbee mesh and have a zigbee server there, as the 2.4 ghz WiFi and Zigbee overlap at parts of the 2.4ghz spectrum. (May want to check your Zigbee channel(s) regardless -but not sure what exact network problems you are seeing). The “loop” - (in the most basic form) @msgreenf refers to a situation where -ie: SW1 connects to SW2 and then via another cable somewhere SW2 is feeding back to SW1. You want to be flat. Never 2 connections between switches. There are other loop scenarios, but this is most common. Eeros - I don’t use it, so can’t really specifically comment. But like @msgreenf said, typically you want your all of your APs connected to a single switch. (You can have obviously have other devices connected to that same switch). I am thinking the Eeros controller FW/SW resides on an Eeros AP? (This way you’d log into 1 Eeros AP via some sort of web or app interface to set up all of the APs). But again, I don’t know Eeros, but try to stick to best practices. Lastly, I don’t like using the up and downlinks on WAPs. It’s basically creating another small switch in the wild. It can be done, but you’ll want to know your network setup well (record the topology on paper and take a pic of it and upload it to whatever cloud you use). Label cables anytime possible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. This is where they belong. Top panel near the top, oriented correctly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  21. It's strange that you say that (and I have heard this before), because my Nyce tilt sensors have been stellar.
  22. I feel like there was a way I was able to use it on the manner you’re attempting. I still say grab a used mirage (even an MMS-5a (I might have one very cheap for you since we’re friends). This way you can use it for Spotify only and have that more robust integration versus having to open the Spotify app every time. Sell the node for more than you’ll pay me for the mirage. And get 5 steams.
  23. On a side note, I know Spotify crushes everyone in terms of users, the app is very nice, but the actual sound is the worst out I believe. Someone here can shed light.
  24. I think we may have discussed this but o do believe you can expose the Bluesound Spotify driver everywhere, but since you only have the one node, you just cannot steam 2 simultaneous instances. This is true for any streamer. The native (Ryff) and Autonomics (Mirage MMS) steamers have multiple streams (ie Core5, Core3, Core1, MMS-5e, MMS-3e, MMS-1e) …where the numeric portion of the product name is the simultaneous streams. Bluesound sounds fantastic, but look at Mirage MMS-3e and get 3 simultaneous streams. (Or 5 with the 5e) if you want a more robust Spotify integration. I don’t have one in hand right now (2 on demo), but when I get one back I’ll send you one to try. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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