BrokenNote

12 hours ago, Cyknight said:

Huh? There's been recessed wireless contacts available for decades.

That is true.

However, I deal with majority new construction or major remodels and if wired alarm isn't part of the original plan, what usually happens is that the home owner has ADT or whatever local alarm monitoring company come out and put in the system when the house is pretty much complete. When that happens they slap up the surface mount sensors as fast as possible and bounce...at least in my area.

Your mileage may vary.

Everything Zaphod said is correct, but to answer your original question of "what's the minimum I need?"

Short answer:  EA-1. It will do everything you listed.

If the walls are open, I always go wired for both reliability and better aesthetics since wired contacts are not visible and provide a cleaner look. That being said, DSC wireless contacts are very good and also reliable. Although they have their place, wireless motions are another story though for reasons already stated. 

Roku with mini drivers still the old UI through.

Cool, Apple TV and Fire TV screens now without the clutter!

On 3/31/2022 at 4:54 AM, C4 User said:

@Cyknight I have not seen anything on the NEO Pro line, even on the DSC website. Am I missing something? I have been fighting for years to get my DSC Neo with the TL280LE connected to both C4 and monitoring (not Alarm.com), unsuccessfully. I will gladly upgrade to a PRO line if that is the solution.

As Cyknight stated, you can integrate the Neo system via network with C4 and have it monitored simultaneously as long as it's via landline or cellular. I see this a lot in my area. The gotcha to watch out for is if the monitoring company decides to change the installer code and not tell anyone.

That's assuming you are talking about Tidal streaming directly from the C4 controller vs streaming via shairbridge.

Depending on how the "ignore source volume" in the shairbridge driver is configured, it may be that the volume of the source on your phone or whatever you are airplaying from is down presenting a lower signal to C4.

On 4/20/2022 at 7:57 AM, slip.cougan said:

The controller has been rebooted many times while I've been carrying out Blackout tests.

I noticed the IP driver provided a nicer icon that mimics the ATV. The IR driver just shows that horrible CD icon

For the record the "Apple TV (Gen1-3) [IP]" driver actually has IR also and has the icon you're looking for. Just make the IR connection in composer and ignore the IP part. Works with Gen 4 and 4k models via IR too.

On 4/10/2022 at 2:08 PM, Viperman said:

3.  Need some doorbell cameras.  Doorbird seems expensive and Ring seems cheap.  

Ring doesn't work with C4 or NVR as far as video goes.

Doorbird physically looks nice and can work with both C4 and NVR via ONVIF with some caveats, but the camera leaves a lot to be desired.

The C4 chime has a better camera then Ring, Doorbird, or DS2 Doorstations.

That's great that you have it working again. I've had issues with a similar model in the past also in which on/off reliability would be temperamental. In the end, I had to ditch the IP control and go back to IR. Customer hasn't had any problems since.

Strange thing is that the same house has another Bravia that has rock solid with IP control. Go figure.

It would also be nice if the Neeo screen could be customized independently of the room's navigator in the app/T4 without creating separate rooms in an effort to reduce overall "room clutter".

On 4/20/2022 at 6:51 AM, South Africa C4 user said:

 

Nice and clean. I like it!

Thanks for the responses. After some experimentation today I made some discoveries.

So I was able to get it to work properly now by engaging Passthrough Mode in the driver as long as you ONLY use the MiniDriver shortcuts for Netflix, Hulu, Etc...

The problem remains for all channels/services that there is not a Mini Driver for.

Also, even if you go to "working" service like Netflix WITHOUT using the MiniDriver shortcut by selecting  "Watch>Roku Channels>Netflix" and then hit Neeo Home button you get a "Roku" device icon instead of the service you were watching and still have to go though the whole Watch sequence again to get to the transport controls.

That being said, I'm happy to have it mostly working now since there are MiniDrivers for the most common channels.

For the record, I'm on 3.13 with up to date drivers, but the issue existed on previous versions as well.

Ryan, if you need anymore info from me that would be useful to you just let me know. Thanks.

Generally both the Roku streaming stick+ and Neeo remote work great with C4. There is one possible bug that drives me nuts though. When you're watching Roku and then hit the Home button to access something on the Neeo homescreen for example, hitting the Roku icon doesn't take you back to the onscreen transport/number controls. To get back to the transport controls you have to have to painfully go back through the "front door" by going to "Watch>Roku>Hulu" for example.

All other devices you can go to the Neeo home screen and then just tap the icon of whatever device is playing and it immediately jumps back to the transport controls.

Can anyone else confirm this behavior?

Very interesting, especially side by side. For me a Neeo with Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR and older Araknis 300 router has been problem free.