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Thanks! And you're both correct. The false positives are high right now if it sits for awhile, I assume mostly from the weather (in the 90s). Sprinklers, critters, etc., would also likely be triggers. But, as Matt says, this is just to confirm another sensor. So even if it's firing ~10% of the time, it's still providing dual confirmation the other 90%, which was the goal.

Figured I'd share a simple hack I did tonight that came out well (I think): Use Case: Our front door DS2 has occasional false positives for our motion annoucement (which we love), so I wanted to add a second sensor to QA that via confirmation logic Solution: Dissasembled a NYCE 3041 and integrated it into a 1" PVC pipe/cap, sealed it at the bottom and sensor for the outdoor environment, painted and cut it to be a landscape 'stake' Given these sensors are known to be durable outdoors pre-mod., thinking it will hold up. Also upped to a CR123 for 2x battery life (despite easy cap removal to change).

As far as desktop virtualization goes, it's pretty seemeless -- one question though since I know you're using too: Have you figured out a way to fully scale down the size? Played with some of the developer settings but, especially on my Surface (see screenshot), it's a bit large for my taste. I think it's aggravated by how the Surface upscales for DPI (as my ultrawide is way better).

Weird. Can confirm this doesn't happen with Windows Subsystem emulation, at least for me. In fact, the cameras load much faster than on my iPhone (with T3s not even in the race, ha).

Of note for folks, if you have Windows 11, you can use a free, near-native solution now. Details in this and this article. (The second part, WSA Pacman, is required for the C4 app.)

Check the link below out. This Z2C is just the first that came up when searching eBay, but for $59, it does temp. and humidity via battery power. It's also compatible with external temp. probes beyond the internal sensor. Control4 Z2C

Hey all — sorry to add another topic within 24h, but I’m stumped again, this time with triggering an event when my doors are unlocked via programming but not manually. I’m looking to use the event as one of several triggers for ‘welcome home’ functionality, including disabling my alarm. Therefore, I don’t want a ‘break window and turn’ to count, rather only a valid command. I’m using August locks. Oddly, their driver lists events for ‘opened, opened manually and opened via proxy’ separately, but they all fire when the lock is manually turned. The actual C4 proxy driver does the same as well. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Hey all -- I hope (for my sake at least) that this is a stupid question and I'm just missing it, but did C4 remove the 'ramp to preset' command (for an individual dimmable control) in version/Composer 3.3? I really hope not, as my time-of-day lighting programming relies on that functionality. (If curious, first each control's preset is set to a variable from a matrix based on bulb type and/or preference, then if the light is already on, it's ramped slowly for a nice transition -- works great!) As a workaround, I'm able to copy>edit XML>paste from my old commands, but that's super clunky. I did see some 'preset' fields added at the control level, but that's a bunch of rework (and inferior to my approach, at least in my opinion). Thanks in advance for any help!

It's definitely more attractive. And I don't use the learning functionality or need the sensors (have others) but appreciate the heads up. I'm a little proud though I've let go of my OCD somewhat and am not freaking out about my current on-wall thermostats, multi-gang controls, etc., ha.

Very cool -- appreciate the tip! Will have to add this to the end of my project list -- cleaning up all the devices I've accumulated, ha. Off thread topic but related to the clean install -- any go-tos for 'recessing' NYCE ceiling and standard motion sensors? Figured I could experiment with can light trim for the former, but don't have ideas on the latter yet.

You just gave me an idea, Ari — move my C4 THERMs to their respective engineering spaces and just rely on my T3s — really no need to display them at this point :-).

For water -- 3m reaction time would be hard to beat, but you could drop a zigbee water sensor or two in your gutters for super cheap (e.g., Shelly) and see if that works. For temp -- Shelly and many other third parties have devices but for ease you could use the native wireless contact sensor, which runs on batteries and is the size of a Z2IO.

This is a little far out, but you could create a recurring timer that adds to a variable every minute, then a macro that reads that variable and inserts it into another variable for your current time. There's got to be an easier way though!

Covered in another thread but worth kudos to the C4 team cause it is a huge improvement in user experience!

Final idea -- if you had a distrubuted access point system (like I do) you could use the AP association to do exactly this, or at least know when the parent is in the room, provided they have their phone .

Since you're open to entering a user code either way, I'd suggest having an 'unlock' code for you and your wife for each room/zone (since it sounds like you want this in multiple/unpredictable rooms/zones). For example, in your den, you could create a timer that ends any TV session after a cumulative hour each day unless a variable is flipped. The variable could be flipped by entering a keypad sequence in that room/zone, certian combination of buttons through the UI, access agent, etc. You could automatically flip the variables after bedtime or when other conditions are met to save yourself the trouble of having to enter the sequence. You could also add a shortcut/webhook command on your phones only that flips the variables and/or use the access agent to put that on a room/experience button that can't be accessed without authentication. Lastly, as other have said, warnings could be programmed when the functionality is active in case you forget to do it. If you have interest, happy to explain in more detail.

Makes sense. FYIW in my research for this, I noted folks do adapt them to very humid environments by dramatically increasing system pressure. However, this adds significant cost/complexity beyond my mid-pressure system. (Think steel lines and a much more powerful pump.)

It works great, with the exception of the rare occasion when humidity is literally 100%, in which case it looses effectiveness so I don't bother. Basically, the water atomizes and via physics drops the temperature of the air (evaporative/adiabatic cooling). The effect is pretty profound -- feels like 10+ degrees -- especially when it's dryer. No water hits the ground in my setup (with a ~10ft ceiling and the nozzles at the perimeter). I recently added a pressurizing pump to the setup (Arizona Mist 92100 Booster Pump) which made it even better/more powerful.

It's funny, because of all the tech in my house, the misters get the most love/wants from my neighbors, ha.

Posting this for cathartic purposes a bit -- really simple request but think it would be great -- the ability to create custom (or templated) folders/nesting in Navigator. I've invested a fair amount of time in building custom icons, experiences, etc., and I'd love to ability to organize as I see fit. Current solution is to use extra 'rooms,' but it requires extra clicks which is meaningful given we're in the app/Navigators all day, every day.

One other thought FWIW: I appreciate wanting to take advantage of your existing sensor, but any solution you implement is going to have more steps and therefore more potential points of failure. Given alternative devices that natively integrate are inexpensive, and any inferiority in product would be offset by my prior point, you may just want to swap it.

I’ve never done it, but I recall reading that Synology Mail/Chat could natively be configured to send webhooks. In my case, I was looking to use webhooks to relay tornado alerts from NWS but ended up using Node-Red.

Hey all, feel like I’ve seen this topic come up before but couldn’t find it via search: What’s the consensus on the easiest way to get data on outdoor lighting levels into C4 (for the purpose of adjusting/sensitizing my lighting time clock)? Doesn’t need to be super sophisticated, but some gradation and the ability to have more than one measurement ‘zone’ might be a plus. TIA!

You could use a Gmail webhook script or service icw. the Generic TCP Command driver (my fav.). If you have a NAS/server, you could also host a mail client that has that capability, keeping it local.