Andrew luecke

You can take a look at one of the kits from: https://www.blustream.co.uk/hdbaset-extension It does more than sufficient distance and has a variety of features for 4K and such. If you want something more powerful, use a matrix switch. https://www.blustream.co.uk/hdbaset-matrix

In addition to this, all of Chowmain's drivers which need licencing have already been updated and should be live already. We also revamped the communications handling a bit in some of them too like on echonet lite and they actually are more responsive than before

If you get interior cameras, you might also want to consider getting ones with no microphone or a hard switch to turn it off In a lot of places, using a mic on a camera is highly illegal, especially in more private places.

Its possible its an old version, or there could be other reasons.. Maybe best to lodge a support ticket, or get your dealer to take a look. It could also be that it's using HVAC integration instead of the standard way

You should be able to use the Home assistant Fan driver and bind it to the entity ID instead (then program against that) Andy

For the lower end of the market, the CA1 is the cheapest controller and actually has no subscription cost (from my understanding, its free for CA1 users). For the higher end, Control4 hardware has fairly competitive pricing imho for the market segment they are in, and the subscription fees are only a small cost. The Core hardware and CA10 is also fairly powerful (there are some massive jobs using CA10) Offering hardware refreshes as a subscription wouldn't really work unfortunately. Different users have different requirements. We had jobs for instance with 20 or so controllers, and you'd still need an installer to upgrade the hardware, so it seems more like a service your installer would have to offer. Future updated hardware might not also work with old hardware either (like the old HC-X controllers can't be used in OS3/4, and the Core series needs OS3/4) That being said, many installers already offer maintenance plans to their customers to allow for software upgrades and basic maintenance. Composer HE also receives free updates. From our side of things (Chowmain), on all of our supported platform's we offer free updates too over the life of the driver. There is also no shortage of our drivers from as far back as 2014 (or longer) which are getting some fairly hefty updates too, such as our Generic Lighting driver which had a new OS3.3+ driver added 2 or 3 years ago with completely different capabilities.

At the very least, I'd probably recommend moving when X4 is released

We've done a lot of benchmarking at Chowmain, and I seem to recall from the benchmarks I ran that the core series was 3x faster provided the drivers are correctly written

C4 has a code learner built in

Or EA1. But at this point, you'd probably want to do it properly and use a Core 1 or better. The EA1 V1 was released 7 years ago and doesn't support things like H.265 or Apple music.

Just be careful what you're blocking. I wouldn't recommend blocking anything on your C4 controller. Problem is, if you start blocking random things on your C4 controller, you can: 1. Make troubleshooting a lot more difficult by causing issues with logging. 2. Potentially block security updates 3. Cause subtle issues with drivers (there might be services they need only intermittently). 4. Interfere with licencing 5. It may cause issues with upcoming functionality where the implications may not be immediately obvious 6. Sometimes there are mechanisms which are implemented for long term compatibility. This might begin months or years before these changes happen.

A new version has now been pushed too.. It also improves licencing and backwards compatibility.

This has been handled via our support system

It could be interference, but also could be a specific driver too if it still happens from the mobile app too

As Mitch said, this has been blocked, and it also should be avoided regardless because it stalls all drivers from doing anything whilst the command is running. We came across a lot of systems with intermittent high latency because of the ping driver in particular which used it (in fact, I came across so many at one point of time that we have a way to test for it now) Ie, if the command takes 5s to run, IR commands will be delayed for 5s