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This is to control an IR fan. Do you have a little remote control to change the fan speed?

What kind of dimmer are you using? Adaptive phase or Forward phase? Forward phase dimmer supports up to 1000w (with no tabs broken) compared to the Adaptive phase dimmer that supports up to 650w (with no tabs broken). And you can typically get away with forward phase dimming of LEDs with no noticeable difference compared to the preferred reverse phase. From my experience, a forward phase was typically only ran to a chandelier due to the typical high wattage requirements that come along with them -- that they would typically exceed the wattage of an APD even if it was the only load wired to it.

Mine is the basic, easiest explanation trying to not confuse the DIYer who shouldn't be playing with electricity. Yes to everything you said.

This is wrong or just a poor way to describe it. Power is going into both boxes. It's the load wire that determines where the switch/dimmer goes, and the keypad goes into the opposite box.

The switch should be in the box where the load wire is located. The keypad in the other box. If you're asking questions about standard electrical wiring I highly suggest you hire an electrician.

I mean if you already own it and you have some ideas on how to use it, why not. But if it's going to cost money to get your dealer involved, then I would say don't bother. Don't throw anymore money into their products. Even Blackwire dropped them, so I don't even know who even sells them in the states anymore (let alone where to get those wonderful batteries).

LOL this is too funny!!!!

They start disecting the image and pointing out the "wood grain" background as proof it was a C4 produced image. Here's another! The conspiracy continues!

I'm saying that picture of the Neeo remote that was posted on Instagram (screenshots within this topic) have been seen before the Control4 purchase was announced. You can still bring up those photos on Neeo's website. https://planet.neeo.com/t/m22yqs/neeo-launches-neeo-pro It's not a fake photo. It's not a legitimate leak. It's some dealer upping his marketing game. There is no such thing as a legitimate leak, because if it happened Control4 would revoke that dealership. Control4 doesn't pre-announce or leak anything, ever. Everyone is getting all goo goo ga ga over stuff that is easily searchable off of Google. So back to my key point for this thread, everything stated here is bullshit until Control4 announces something.

Yeah it sucks. IP is definitely more responsive than IR, but Apple is the ones to blame for this fiasco. C4 knew this would be an issue in the future with Apple and their walled garden, and they're still catching heat because of it.

So you missed the part where those images have been available for years before the Control4 purchase was even announced? Like I said, everyone is basing their theories over old pictures. And guesses.

Yeah I was afraid this was going to happen. Craftsman Assurelink is shutting down and migrated the accounts over to MyQ. I'm sure MyQ has implemented some changes to account for the migration within the API and this is the end result. I haven't even tried my Craftsman driver since doing the migration. Highly doubt it works at this point.

If I can throw in my two cents... Avoid having any lighting functions tied to a button that involves, double taps and triple taps. Whenever you add double/triple tap programming to a button, you're inheriently adding a delay to the response of that button as C4 is waiting for a potential second or third tap to read as a different command. This could produce delayed results that often get mis-identifed as a larger issue with the system (Zigbee reception) when simply as @Cyknight said -- you're trying to do too much with one button.

LOL I love all the psychics on this thread that had pre-visions of what the remote will look like and how it will function without a microphone. Let's keep it on the level here, everything in this post is pure conjecture. The images of the new "C4" remote are just old images of the Neeo prototype that any Google search will produce. In short, you'll know more when they publicly announce it. Anything anyone has to say before then is frankly, bullshit.

You can totally expect this to keep happening again at $100 a pop since no one can predict what Apple decides to break every time they release an update (which has been happening since the creation of the AppleTV). It doesn't matter how late to the party you arrive, you could have read everything to catch up. Use the IR driver, that's the recommendation.

Nope that’s a fair point!

Yes we knew he meant he refers the AppleTV interface. He said it. We're curious about the "much better viewing experience" part.

Dealers are fed up with having to eat costs and change implementations across the life of the AppleTV. What you are seeing is the frustrations/scorn . They are laying it on thick but I do not blame them whatsoever. As much as the end-users are annoyed at this situation, dealers are pissed off. The good ones are not making a dime off of this fiasco, and I would even say that they are losing money due to it.

I'd say your dealer's diagnosis is correct as that exclamation mark means the factory restore had a fatal failure that usually requires a swap out. There's not any other suggestions to give, you need a new EA5. Now if you want to go find one yourself and buy it, go for it. However, the original project needs to be re-loaded onto the replacement controller. And if there's Zigbee involved, the mesh will need to be re-created. These are all dealer-only tasks. So buying a replacement is only one part of the solution.

Suggestions? Call a dealer. You're not going to get any help otherwise in this scenario.

Ding dong the witch is dead!

You're right, instead of ripping out the one product that keeps giving you trouble, you should rip everything else out instead and go back old school because you clearly just do not get it. Do us a favor and save us from future non-sensical rants.

There's a lot of variables involved with that question, but the short answer is yes.

The current version of IP control for 4th gen AppleTV's would be the third type of IP control integrators have had to deal with across AppleTV's life span since it's inception: 1. The unsupported EV driver (eventually killed by an AppleTV software update on all hardware) 2. The semi-supported Apple Remote driver created by C4 (eventually killed by a combination of the hardware version of Apple TV and software update) 3. The supported Apple bridge driver -- the current driver only supported by the latest and greatest hardware, which will probably be replaced again with a newer version (software or hardware) that will render all previous ones incompatible to necessitate another IP driver. Just stick with IR for these things.

This is a very misguided, and uninformed take. "Apple is not a closed wall" Stopped reading there. I'm an Apple fanboy as well, but here's the reality of the situation. It's Apple's hardware, it's Apple's API. At any point they could have branched it off and allowed method of control both ways (legacy IP and new IP), thus not breaking integration for thousands of users. They chose the nuclear option as they often do. They are in fact a closed wall. That is their biggest selling point because a closed wall equals better security (in most cases). That's what you are buying in to. That's why it just works. They care about their ecosystem over anything the third party may have been doing up to that point. Just because they let developers in the door, they DO NOT give them the keys. Ask any developer who codes for Android or iOS. There is a HUGE difference. But keep blaming the 40k worth of Control4 equipment that's still working.. Well except for the control of the AppleTV due to an update pushed by Apple. That was warned by Control4 many times throughout the year that it will break because Apple can't get their act together for CI (which also includes Crestron and Savant) I get it, you're upset. But your anger is misguided and uninformed.