DanITman

CA-10 provides much faster performance when rebooting, updating, backing up, and refreshing navigators. I wouldn't say I've seen a huge jump in the performance of navigators, or other aspects of C4. I tinker a lot and develop drivers so having a controller that can reboot quickly and restore quickly is important.

Samsung doesn't do a good job keeping up with their driver naming in the database. You have a couple options. 1.) Add a similar Samsung driver to the project and manually connect it via IP in the connections tab. 2.) Modify the existing Samsung driver XML and repackage it with the new model name. Then when you add it via SSDP it will find the right driver name. #2 is a bit harder but works in scenarios like this. I would go for option #1.

The way you have this programming setup makes it very difficult to modify if you get the numbers slightly off. You just need to add in an AND statement. I'm thinking about making some modifications to my driver that makes this programming easier. I get that tracking the sun for each shade can be complex. Once you get it dialed in thought, it works very well.

Sure, here you go: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sun-seeker-tracker-surveyor/id330247123

Here is how I use my own sun position driver that I wrote. 1.) Divide your house into sides of the house where you have common shades that you want to change in sunlight. Example: FrontHouse. 2.) Create boolean variables for all the sides of the houses you want to create. 3.) Create macros for the sides of the house and the shade position that you want those shades to move to when the sun is in range. I have wood blinds so this is easy to do. If you have shades and you want them to "follow" the sun, this is a lot harder and I wouldn't recommend this route. 4.) Create programming for the macros above that move the shades to the correct position when sun is in range. 5.) Now its time to determine the range of sun for the shade. I recommend an app like Sun Seeker to help you determine the min and max azmuith and elevation for that side of the house. 6.) Take your values from above and lets create programming that looks for the sun position changes. This is where all the tricky program will exists. You'll want to setup conditional statements that check for the ranges for each side of your house. When the condition is true for Azimuth and Elevation you will want to set the variable to true for that side of the house. Make sure you have an else statement that sets the variable back to false once the condition is no longer true. This will allow you to trigger a shad position once the sun moves out of range. 7.) Now we create the programming that watches the variables for each side of the house. Once those variable changes to true you will want to move the shades via the macro you built earlier. This should be a good method for tracking shades and making actions.

This is an area that I think Control4 could make it way easier to integrate. Josh auto discovers ONVIF and its very easy to just enter username and password and you are done. I know control4 is picky on resolution and frame rate (T4) but it would make fore a much better dealer experience to quickly integrate cameras.

Your 48 port switch is on the older end of Unifi gear. I'd recommend the Pro line switches if you are doing Moip. Unifi seems to be doing a lot of work in this area on their switches and it might be worth going into early access firmware to see if that helps. I've ran the 900 series on my unifi setup and it worked well but I didn't use it for audio, I was mainly focused on video distribution. I put the Moip devices in a VLAN and enabled all the settings you have above. Everything worked well. I eventually ditched it because it wouldn't do 4k60. Like others have stated, it might be best to pick up a netgear switch and keep moip on its own switch. Netgear is an SDVOE partner and has all the settings built in to support Moip.

I have the update and I haven't noticed any differences in my Control4 integration.

He is asking if he can forward it so the owner doesn't have to listen to the call first. I don't believe there is a way to forward a call on a touch panel.

I would ask since they are still in the design phase. No proprietary thermostats. Tell them you want to use your own thermostats.

Standard thermostats work on zone systems. There will be a zone control board installed that helps decode what to do when the thermostats are requesting hvac. Example, the basement calls for heat while the upstairs calls for air conditioning. The zone control board will figure that out. when it comes to thermostats I prefer the control4 branded ones. They allow the most integration and run on zigbee. They also will work without the controller being online. However, people complain they are ugly and the relays click loud. Because if this, I’ve moved the thermostats to my furnace room and I control temp in my house through a series of remote thermostats. I have two thermostats per floor. One mobile and one on the wall. I use nest for my wall thermostats as they look nice and could be converted to working when I move out. They nest so not control the hvac, I have most of it automated and I can control the set temps from voice or t4 wall touch panels. I also have a mobile temp sensor that is a Shelly h&t gen2 and it can be moved based on preference. It mainly stays in my son’s room. Between the mobile thermostats and nest I average the temp on each floor with the temp aggregation driver to get a control temp for each floor. The control4 thermostats get their temp from the aggregation driver for each floor. The wife is happy that those control4 ones live in the furnace room :)

RATGDO is the same as your directly connected I/O module but provides more information. No cloud control. Its a serial connection for your garage door and provides status as well as control of the door. It does not rely on a hacked API connection to work.

Those companies have a history of going out of business or have shitty support. I'm a fan of paid support models. I hate lifetime passes as they always tend to go away. I'm a fan of 4sight to keep c4 in business.

Unifi does provide free and paid support options. https://ui.com/site-support. If you want real support it cost money. Not sure how my statement before should be considered a fact. Its obvious I was stating my opinion. If you would like to argue that opinion and provide a better one, go a head. Are you suggesting that from now on, on the forum, you must preface all statements with "I Believe" to make sure people don't get confused on a very subjective topic? If there is a better one out there, I honestly would like to know. If there isn't a better one out there, I think my subjective opinion is strong. I really like what I see coming out of Homekit/Apple with the support of Scrypted. Other contenders are the cloud base systems like Nest and Ring which offer a decent user experience.

Does Luma do video clip history or just snapshot like the D2? I'm all ears for a better experience than Unifi. Please educate us on a better one. All these Chinese NVRs have shit experiences.