Time2Jet

Hell No, the M series laptops are the best laptops I’ve ever owned. I’ve owned an MBP m1 and m2. It’s the best battery life of any laptop. From a developer perspective they blow away a windows laptop. 
 
I run compose on parallels with my m2 without issue. 

I can program off pico buttons. I’m using the leap driver on the non pro hub. 
 
make sure you look at the events side of programming. You can program off press and release on any button push. 

Stay tuned. I’ve got a driver that will soon be listed on Driver Central that solves these issues. It works with Multi Display too

I don't see the Josh/c4 integration stopping.
I think greg was asking about Josh using the halo remote voice button. And that was a hot topic up until the lawsuit
That would be a game changer for many!

I don’t believe either side will make any further announcements until this SNAP/AVA/Josh lawsuit is sorted.  Josh is reassuring the dealer network that the integration will remain, but those are just words.  
 
I’m hopeful things get sorted out sooner rather than later.  It’s too good of a synergy to not continue to build from.  I don’t disagree with SNAP killing the AVA integration.  The current future of Control4 is the Halo Remote platform and they spent a bunch of cash getting that rolled out.  

“Director” - in the simplest of terms is the program that runs your system, executes the commands given via interfaces and programming, runs the drivers scripts etc.  in other words, your CA-10 is the brain.  Some other tasks are handled by your secondary controllers (EA or Core), like your zigbee mesh, Ryff audio if you are using native audio and OSD (in the case of the Core1,3&5 - 4K) also on the case of the Core3 & 5 relay(s) and contact(s) and  Zwave.  Head to head, the Core controllers are more powerful than their EA counterparts, but that’s simply the new electronics.  
 
Aside from the above differences, there is much more in store for the Core series once further OS versions are released.  
 
All of that said, unless you need to integrate all of the 3rd party zigbee devices and zwave devices (remember that even though Control4 is migrating to zigbee 3.0 and a current zwave protocol, specific device drivers for certain devices may or may not be offered natively -I assume a bunch of 3rd party drivers will come as well to cover devices Control4 doesn’t include natively), there is not a good enough reason to upgrade “today”.  A lot of our Control4 audio clients are interested in the new DACs (allegedly better), but on a typical distributed audio system the sound improvement won’t be that noticeable if at all.  Clients that run a (or an few) audiophile quality zones, may benefit.  
 
Don’t waste the money at this point unless something specific calls you.  Wait until the new Core magic powers are released.  And at some point (I don’t see it anytime soon), the EA’s will no longer be supported.  But for now, we know they are good up to OS3.3.  To be fair, not everyone jumps on new OS releases.  We have very happy clients still running OS2 systems.  

So far the driver has been flawless @DanITman  
I would think that for anyone with blinds it would be a must have.  I have some privacy programming against my tilts and shades, but now there’s this smart add-on for comfort and to save money on heating and cooling. 

So far the driver has been flawless @DanITman  
I would think that for anyone with blinds it would be a must have.  I have some privacy programming against my tilts and shades, but now there’s this smart add-on for comfort and to save money on heating and cooling. 

I wrote a sun positioning driver that I need help testing.
Driver allows you to trigger events in Control4 based on the suns location.  This is great for shades and allows you to mimic control like Lutron's Natural Light Optimization. Driver calculates the sun position based on your project location and timezone.  This driver does not require an outside API and all calculations are done on the driver itself.
Below are the variables that you can use for conditionals.  Driver fires an event on every calculation of the sun position.

Sun Interval: How often the sun position should be calculated. 
Azimuth: Direction of the sun as compass coordinates.
Altitude: Angle of the sun in degrees.  (Positive - Sun is above horizon | Negative - Sun is below horizon)
Season: Current Season based on Location
Trending: If the Sun is going UP or DOWN
Last Event: Day, Night, Civil Twilight, Nautical Twilight, Astronomical Twilight, Solar Noon, Solar Midnight
If interested in testing, please DM me your email and I'll send you a beta trial. 
Thanks

that's the nice part about the platforms.  Different use cases for different households.  We had 4 T3's in the house from approx 2017 - early 2020 and maybe used them 1-2 per week.  When we switched to using Josh in place of the T3's we use them 40-50 times per day for anything from morning routines (that vary on time of day so not scheduled in) to discrete commands when my hands are full.  My wife uses it a lot to open close shades, turn on music and the such for her in-home daycare without having to find a remote or get to a wall with a touchscreen.  For us, Josh is a discretionary spend but also has allowed us to get more value out of not only the Control4 devices we already had (i.e. lights, A/V, etc.) but saved on programming like Lutron shades where they just worked from the jump without having the integrator program them in.  For the most part we use it as a 'layered' device in the same approach that Crestron has chosen to use it with their integration options with and making their OS Home app available on  the AVA remote. 
Having used the system at this volume for 4 years provides enough of a sample size for our use case to recommend it to those that have a similar interest.  If not sold on it and haven't used it before, that's all good too.  And as far as price it fits our budget as we prioritize items like this discretionary spend over other items (cars, clothing, etc.) that others may value as good use of discretionary.  We were considering Alexa and Google originally and I went to the Origin Acoustics HQ here in Vegas to play around with it in 2018.  It was super clunky at the time and slow so it was a non-starter at the time.  Voice is viewed as a complimentary element on our end and today the Josh platform provides a much enhanced home user experience for us for the reasons stated above and the very easy custom scene creation, editing and the like in the portal.  That part alone has saved us thousands of dollars in creating custom scenes, triggers, etc and far superior to the When>Then C4 functionality.  So I see these, in present state, as complimentary products if you have this or a related use case that fits your lifestyle.  For us it's been fantastic as a paying customer for nearly 4 years of use.
If we were to move/build a new home, it would be a strong potential to go to just Josh given the ease of use, deployment, hardware costs, and amount of daily use we get from the system.  The reliability has also been quite good on the items we've compared on a case by case function such as using it to raise/lower shades versus the raise and lower on a C4 keypad, the 2N/DS Mini notifications, door locking and relays, etc.  I am not sure it's quite there for a large installation (not an integrator so this is conjecture), but from what I have used and seen at other smaller installations (i.e. condos, townhomes) it works very well and reliably in my friends' and colleagues' properties as a standalone.

Josh can totally be a standalone automation system with direct integration with many partners. But this is a control4 forum.

Agree, just won’t see any movement until the suit is resolved.  We hear that current integration is and will be supported …and short of the Halo voice feature, it’s still crazy powerful.  I don’t think most understand what we mean when we say there’s a synergy that makes each better than on their own.  Anything you can program in Control4, you can create a voice scene to fire.  And Josh’s room/area awareness is a huge game changer.  Trigger:  Who is in the backyard?  Response:  Camera pops in local, some or all navigators.  So much you can do.  

Agree, just won’t see any movement until the suit is resolved.  We hear that current integration is and will be supported …and short of the Halo voice feature, it’s still crazy powerful.  I don’t think most understand what we mean when we say there’s a synergy that makes each better than on their own.  Anything you can program in Control4, you can create a voice scene to fire.  And Josh’s room/area awareness is a huge game changer.  Trigger:  Who is in the backyard?  Response:  Camera pops in local, some or all navigators.  So much you can do.  

Josh works great here in my home. I have several Nano's and its integrated with Control4. He does everything I tell him to do.
And now with the new licensing, its much less expensive getting started
 
 

What makes it a scam? It's a real product and very powerful 

Im a Savant, Control4 and Josh dealer… they do not integrate. C4 and Crestron only. 

Believe @Time2Jet may have an Axion for sale. 

It's pronounced Samsquanch, Ricky!

The kwikser deadbolts work directly with control4 as long as you have a control4 zigbee card in them... Or a zwave card in them (if you have a core 5 or core 3 controller)

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You can buy this version and just swap out the card to a control4 one. It works fine. I have cards for sale if you need one. 

Brand new triad ts-ams8-v2 
8 zone audio matrix new in box. 
$1000 
Was purchased last year for a project that cancelled. 

Honestly, I agree there still aren't any real-world applications for home users released yet for Wifi 7.
 
But, I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see technologies like better wireless MOIP baluns a few months after the standard is finalised (and can think of a few that used their own rf standard).  Wifi 7 has a worst case latency of only 10ms (best case 1ms, which is less than 1 frame), and 30gb performance. But, that will only mainly benefit specialized applications, or hardware designed for it (maybe also gaming if you're relying on wifi).
I'm still using Wifi 5 too (which is enough for me at the moment), but will upgrade to 7 when proper AP's get released

It's a bit early for proper brands like Ruckus to have Wifi7 still. The big advantage of Wifi 7 will realistically be guaranteed low latency (which may also open up new classes of devices), or possibly full-quality streaming of high res footage over wifi without quality loss (but for that kind of bandwidth, you'll need Fibre+SFP or 10gbps Link Aggregation). So, many installs will likely only benefit from the latency improvements for now (but really depends on the usecase. It won't help if your usecase is netflix)
 
If you're building and want WiFi 7, make sure you install conduit to your AP at a minimum, but you probably want fiber and ethernet running to your AP's to be able to use them at full capacity

Anyone interested in Ruckus gear, message me. There is a very nice sale on their APs and Switches. Fantastic opportunity to finally crossover to enterprise grade APs at prices similar to mainstream home APs. I’m a huge fan of Ruckus and its Unleashed platform. Very simple to setup and manage.

The sale runs through the end of the year.

Message me if you are interested.

TIA

I was referring to a couple of dimensions, 1) Cloud Access / GUI for those that find this important and 2) the quality and details of the GUI while accessing within the local network.   As a contrast, I love Mikrotik gear but their routerOS GUI is much more complicated to navigate for an average user....