samrwalker

53 minutes ago, South Africa C4 user said:

You could do something like this with Domosapiens Enhanced Countdown driver or, for that matter, if your setup is quite basic, you could sue the free countdown timer driver instead of the Wake / Sleep agent.

Yeah just looking for something that will display the time remaining on a SR260, Halo, or Neeo

Will it show how much time is left on the timer on the remotes now? I thought in the past when I had it enabled it still didnt show. 

I currently have sleep timers built via programming that activate when I press the yellow button on my remote. After the timer expires, it pauses everything in the room, then starts another timer. If you don't do anything before  that timer expires, it turns the room off.

What I haven't figured out yet, is how to display the time left on the timer anywhere. Is this possible? I would love to be able to show the current time remaining on the remotes. Any luck?

3 hours ago, msgreenf said:

Reboot tvs yet? 

Yup. And checked service menus. Didn’t lose anything. Gonna reboot EVERYTHING once I get everyone out of the house.

All of a sudden, it appears I’ve lost control of 2 TVs over serial, using two different controllers. Everyone seems to be stumped. Project is still running 3.2.1 because I haven’t been convinced to replace my HC800 in this house yet, but maybe it’ll have to hapen. 
 

Any idea of what to tell the guys to look for?

On 5/12/2023 at 6:20 PM, jillmark99 said:

What are you using to send push notifications of your cameras? 

Sorry for the long response on this. guess I missed it. I have unifi protect cameras, and have them setup to send me push notifications if they detect people in areas like the back yard, while we're gone. 

Thanks for the great turnaround on the one I bought. Showed up packed great and identified right in!

2 minutes ago, msgreenf said:

The challenge w geo fencing IMHO are kids, dog walkers service people... Everyone you can't track... 

in our two person household it’s certainly easier. 
 

I keep track of people entering the house when we’re not there by enabling “home” mode when the front door opens and neither of our phones are there. It then keeps track of all motion in the house and after a set amount of time will set the house back to “away.”

I also have a guest mode that ignores the geofencing, and adjusts motion rules in our guest spaces as to not disturb people too much with short timers in rooms turning lights off. 

I love my geofencing setup. I keep track of my phone and my wife's phone. Last one out of the house, everything shuts off, all the lights go out. Enables push notifications from cameras while we're gone. 

When we arrive at home, when you open the front door the lights come on different levels depending on the time of day. I love it!

Would you send one my way at $375

I use an experience button to trigger a variable called “entertain”

Anything they could be a problem while entertaining checks to see if that variable is true before executing. 

11 hours ago, Dueport said:

That's an interesting approach - I initially tried that figuring native iOS geofence would be most reliable and was frustrated to find out the only geofence event routine I could do was an alert offering me to manually execute the action  Didn't know that those two events can trigger hooks into IFTTT (then chowmain into C4) - I'll have to explore that for those cases - I hope they expand that option to all routines so you could make actions specific for individuals.  

Like anything else I guess it is a tool that some could find essential and others may not care at all.  Assuming it works properly (and it can), we find it incredibly helpful - house knows when it is empty and shuts off lights, media, arms system, responds differently to outside motion events etc - all without having to think about it.  Coming home, it knows which of us is arriving so it opens the corresponding garage door and announces arrival, turns on outside lights if dark outside, etc.  It makes the house feel more effortless for us and eliminates things to have to think about.  Once old enough, our child will have a phone with geofence trigger too but at this point we haven't had to think about that.  Babysitter, housekeeper, etc don't get any benefit from geofence.  We have a "babysitter mode" that we turn on before leaving when the babysitter is here and that mode stops the geofence from triggering shutdown when we leave.  The housekeeper isn't programmed in at all in terms of the geofence - but eventually when we add a gate I'll have her code trigger events in the house to prepare it for her - not geofence but a cool automation anyway.....so your geofence use case may vary but it is a great tool to have.

I also run a "Guest" mode that prevents the house from totally shutting down if we have someone there when my wife and I leave. It also changes up some of the motion triggers for the guest bathrooms so the lights have longer timers. 

To initiate the web hook, you have to have HomeKit run a shortcut, and that shortcut get a URL

8 hours ago, Dueport said:

There really needs to be native support in the C4 app for geofencing....still waiting for that.  In the meantime, we're stuck with workarounds - I use a combination that works nearly all of the time.  I have a TP-Link plugin plug assigned to each family member representing their presence.  Then I use IFTTT to geofence and trigger that on for when they enter the geofence and off when they leave.  For added reliability I have the Alexa app geofence do the exact same thing.  We use iOS and you need to make sure the privacy settings for IFTTT and Alexa apps have location tracking set to precise and always on.  This approach has worked well for us if that's helpful.  

If you are an apple ecosystem household, I've found my solution to be rock solid. 

I use HomeKit to trigger "When the last person leaves" and when the "first person arrives" events. Those events web hook into IFTTT and then chowmain into C4. Works like a champ. 

Need to buy 4 switches

2 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said:

There are a few websites that may be able to help...

crooks.com is one option

HowToStealACar.RemoteSignalCopying.edu is probably the best

Several threads on this. Driver sucks. Apple breaks it. 

9 hours ago, cdepaola said:

Yup, its now working for a few days then stops working again. Rinse and repeat 

Outbound to IFTTT seems to never break, it’s just the inbound via pushover for me. 

thanks!

Anybodyfind a fix for this? @alanchow any insight? 

Price?

I’ll buy your cloud key 2. Pm me 

I thought I was the only one. I’m out of town and the house is not doing what it’s supposed to be!

Just got mine this morning 

17 hours ago, brucecampbell said:

I have a 6 button keypad-dimmer with 'Goodnight' light scene bound to the bottom button.

During parties the young kids like to play with the buttons, turning off all the lights.

Is there a way to prevent a bound action from happening?

or is my only alternative to remove the binding and run the scene from programming on button click?
I prefer the binding due to it automatically setting the LED colour from the scene...

Cheers.

Pretty sure you’re going to need to remove the binding and go to programming. create a variable called “party” and if it’s active, dont allow the goodnight scene to happen

I came to a Neeo from a harmony touch remote, so it was just relearning muscle memory. I love the screen for all of my experience buttons I have for different variables in the house. I only use the Neo in the living room. In the bedrooms I’m sticking with the 260 for the time being so I can easily roll over and hit buttons while I’m falling asleep.