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    How do I get my Hue bulbs to transition smoothly?

    in Troubleshooting, Workarounds, & Bugs

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    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.

     

    Music Android

    in Mobile

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    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).

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    How do I get my Hue bulbs to transition smoothly?

    in Troubleshooting, Workarounds, & Bugs

    Posted · Edited by Aayush Arya
    Update: Solution below.

    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?

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    Alexa's Speed of completing C4 commands

    in Troubleshooting, Workarounds, & Bugs

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    On 8/28/2019 at 5:30 PM, Don Cohen said:

    What I find bothersome is when she often says something along the lines of "I'm sorry, x-device is not responding." And then the action completes as soon as she says that.  So it works, despite the warning. Kind of embarrassing if I'm trying to demo the system.

    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. 

    Activate light when opening door

    in Programming with Composer

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    Hey everybody 
    Just got composer HE installed yesterday. quite the program and looks like it’ll take some time to learn. 
    What I’m looking for is... when I open my mudroom door, it triggers kitchen/living room lights on.
    Thing is... I don’t want it to trigger the lights every time the door opens lol. Just once, when I get home for example.
    Has anyone had a situation like this? 
     
    thx everyone!!
    Steve 


    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?

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    Spotify vs Deezer

    in General Control4 Discussion

    Posted

    You can recall favorites (playlists, etc) directly from the C4 app.
    You can use the Spotify app alongside Spotify Connect (similar to Airplay, but completely different in that the stream originates from the C4 controller, not your phone) and target individual Spotify drivers in your system.  I have a Spotify driver for each audio zone (Living Room, Kitchen, etc).  Others have Spotify drivers for each person in their household.  You can control volume for the zone directly from Spotify (if configured correctly) or from C4.
    C4 has documentation on this.
    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.

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    Spotify vs Deezer

    in General Control4 Discussion

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    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.

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    Can you feed audio from an Echo into a C4 controller?

    in General Control4 Discussion

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    For another example, if I have six rooms but am happy to be limited to three simultaneous streams, I need six echos, one in each room, and three echos in the rack connected to the matrix. In this case, each echo in the rack could be named but how does it know which room to play on? Can it work in a similar way to lights as described in msgreenf’s post (https://www.c4forums.com/topic/33713-making-voice-control-smarter-both-alexa-and-google/?tab=comments#comment-265456)? Or is it just easier to have an echo in the rack for every room?
     

    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.

     

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