Aayush Arya

Are you sure that it can block access to entire rooms? It seems from the description and screenshots that it can only block access to specific devices and buttons.

Solved it. For the benefit of others, what we were doing wrong was trying to use Control4’s built in lighting scenes to change colours on the Hue bulbs. It worked but the transition was usually abrupt, no matter how you configured the ramp numbers. The solution is to use the built-in presets feature of the Hue colour lamp group driver (available as actions in the Programming tab). You first set the lamp to the colour you want by manually dialling in the red, green and blue channels and then save it as a numbered preset by going to the driver’s Actions tab (in System Design), and then you recall that preset through programming whenever needed. There is a ramp setting there, which works perfectly. Furthermore, if you want to set up a party mode where it randomly cycles through different colours, the driver already has an option specifically for that, so you don’t have to mess about with presets either. All in all, the whole thing works extremely smoothly, and I would be happy to recommend Philips Hue bulbs and downlighters to my clients in lieu of using standard fixtures hooked up to Control4 dimmers, particularly if they want colour or temperature control. Of course, it would be more expensive to go that route in a lot of situations, so it is not always the best choice.

Bump. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Get rid of the "device not responding" error with voice commands. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

I don't think there's any answer to this. You're right about the yellow and there's no orange at all (it's the same as the yellow). Ideally, the interface should only show the colours the indicator is capable of showing when picking them. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

It's ridiculous that Control4 does not come with inbuilt support for fundamental features like Google Cast and built-in Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri integration (i.e. without having to rely on Echo devices). Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Hello. I have three Philips Hue bulbs added to my Control4 installation and I have them grouped as one using the free Control4 drivers. I've set five seconds fades when turning them on and off and they work just fine. I also have a bunch of colour scenes (blue, green, red, etc.), all of them with five-second ramp settings, but the bulbs don't ramp gracefully when changing from one scene to another. When the lights are green and I select the red scene, they instantly change to magenta first and then gradually shift to red over five seconds. My understanding is that when I change the scene, it instantly turns off the green channel and turns both blue and red to 100% brightness, producing magenta—and then it gradually ramps down blue from 100 to 0. Is there any way for me to have them always gracefully move from one colour to another over the defined ramp period? Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

It's been one year since this post and despite there having been several updates to Control4, we're still at status quo. Is there never going to be a fix for this? Thousands of cheap home automation systems have gotten the Alexa integration down pat—it's the one feature every client is looking for, after all—and Control4 doesn't seem to be able to get it right. How come dealers don't raise a stink about this? This is truly bizarre.

It's a reference to the playlist. It always streams the latest version of it. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

What's your specific requirement? Are you having trouble adding a Spotify preset to Control4 or having a keypad button start playing back a saved preset? Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Hey, this is a great tip! Thank you. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

It's the difference between custom installed hardware and handheld gadgets. When something is hardwired into the home, the cost, disruption and hassle involved with upgrading it is greater, assuming it's even possible. I don't blame the user for not expecting to have to do so for at least a decade once installed. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Which specific model? Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Which alarm system do you have? Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

My point exactly. We've been over this multiple times over just the last month, so I didn't want to elucidate. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Can you explain what you're trying to do? I have no sense of context when reading your questions. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

1. Make a Boolean variable called "KITCHEN_LIGHT_TRIGGERED" and set up a scheduler that resets it to false every morning. 2. When the door contact sensor triggers, check to see if it's evening, if the variable is false and whether the lights in both rooms are off—if yes, turn on the lights and set the variable to true. This will have the effect of only triggering the lights once per day when the door opens, but only if it's after the sun has set and the lights were turned off before. I assume that that's what you want to do? Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

OP, what you're asking isn't possible to do. Please search the forum and you'll find existing topics where this is discussed at length. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

It can be selected directly when configuring the wake up routine. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

You can also set up physical buttons on Control4 keypads that will favourite the currently playing Spotify preset if you press and hold the button while the preset is playing. You can then recall that preset any time you want with a single click of that button. If the user wants a dedicated keypad for playlists, you can set it up with buttons labelled for specific genres and the user can change the playlists saved to those buttons by themselves without having to get the dealer involved. This is a useful feature. Furthermore, you can save up to five Spotify presets to the Room Control driver's preset cycler and set up any keypad button to recall the cycler. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

You can save a bunch of Spotify playlists to Control4 through the Spotify Connect driver and then play them from Control4 directly, without having to use the Spotify app. It's less powerful than the Deezer integration but much more seamless than AirPlay. I wouldn't characterise it as worthless. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

Can I have the four inputs on a 4-zone matrix amplifier playing to its four outputs (zones) with an EA-1? Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

The simplest (though most expensive) way is to have an Echo in the rack for each room, configured as the default speaker for the Echo in their corresponding rooms. Then if you tell the Echo in the master bedroom to "play some soft rock", the master bedroom Echo in the rack will start playing the music, and you can use audio sensing to route the music to your master bedroom speakers. It would be the most seamless solution for the end user. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

You wire both subwoofers to the same subwoofer output on the AVR. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk

I see. I'll have to give it a shot then. Sent from my SM-G970F using Tapatalk