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I just had Yale assure locks installed on two of my doors. I tend to keep my doors unlocked when we are home, so I disabled the auto lock feature. It has a happened a few times, but sometimes when we open the door, the deadbolt extends without us knowing. Then of course, we shut the door and hear the bang from the deadbolt hitting the door. I am not sure why the deadbolt extends which is another mystery, but might need to contact Yale for that Is there a way to disable the yale lock (except manually turning the deadbolt) while the door is open (door contact is open state)? I saw a driver called Door Auto Lock that Ryan E made a few years ago, but I think this driver will disable the auto lock feature while the door is open. I don't think it would prevent the door from locking if someone were to hit the Yale button button. I imagine throwing a command that will keep sending an Unlock command to the door every second when the door is open will drain the door lock battery. Not sure if there is a way to disable the lock completely while it open, but thought id ask the community

Are there any specs on how many zigbee devices will the Core products be able to support? I believe on my EA-3, it recommends keeping to 70 devices. I am closer to 90-95, and will be over 100 here shortly. Instead of adding on another EA-1 or CA-1 controller and transferring some devices over, would a EA-5 or the new Core controllers be able to support more devices? I figure instead of the labor hours to identify it on the new controller, I could just upgrade the controller instead

Thanks! What do those locks typically run for?

I am going to replace two of my smart door locks and want to make sure that they will be compatible with Control4. I am looking at Yale Assure (YRLD226C42619), but see that they cost $400 each when buying the control4 version. I want to be able to control the Door lock via control4 (add in codes, add programming if a code is entered). I see that I can order Yale Assure through amazon for $270, but it is a Wi-Fi. I assume that this won't connect cleanly to control4. Even if there was a work around, the $130 savings each will go away quickly once programming gets involved and will probably not be as reliable as if I just went with the control4 version. I've tried to go down the cheaper path before which backfired, but figured I would find out from the community if they had any luck and what their experience has been.

Ah, this makes sense. Thank you very much. I can’t think of why I would need to override it to turn on the dog door if gate is open. If hitting the experience button, I’d def want it off. I think this should work and makes sense

Thanks cyknight, I was thinking some sort of variable. I’ll need to think through it more because if turn off the outlet it will set off the variable. And when the gate opens, it then triggers the outlet to turn off which would then trigger the outlet. I’m my head I’m thinking that if the gate opens 1st then outlet turns off then variable is not triggered. and when gate closes , if variable is “true” , then nothing happens , but if variable is “false” then outlet will turn back on

I discovered today a flaw in my programming and am stuck on how to resolve it. I have an electronic dog door that is hooked up to a control4 outlet, so I an control if I want the dog door to be locked OR if the either gate is in the open position, then outlet ("Dog Door") will turn off. Once both gates are in the closed position, the outlet will turn back on. The simple idea is that I don't want the dog to be able to go outside if the gate is open and she can escape. I discovered today that when I had my landscaper over, I hit the outlet off on my control4 app because I knew they were here. When the landscaper closed the gate (but wasn't done with their work yet), the dog door turned on, and the dog could go out. What I really want to happen is if I turn off the dog door from control4, it will remain off until I hit it back on via the app. So if someone opens then closes the gate, the dog door should not turn on. I know in my programming below, I have it say when the gate closes & both are closed, then turn on the dog door. What suggestions does someone have so I prevent the gate closing to turn on the dog door if I have turned off the dog door first via an app.

I am trying to create various programs that will turn on at night and check if other scenes are active, but had a question regarding the scheduler. For instance: If my garage door goes to Open, and time is between 10pm and Sunrise, and any of the 6 various lights in the kitchen are not on, then turn on the Mudroom light. My thought on how to accomplish this is the following: Set up 2 schedulers (Night Time at 10pm , and Sunrise) Set up a variable so if night time is true, then the variable is true, and when sunrise executes, then variable is set to false Set up Kitchen scene with all devices that are tracked to Off Then the program would be: When Garage door opens : If Variable is True & Kitchen Scene is Active, Then Turn on mudroom Lights. In my head, this seems like a path that would work. Does the "If kitchen scene is Active" mean at if any light in the kitchen scene is on, then the scene would be Inactive (if the scene is set up so it is tracked if Off, and set to 0%/Off)? I know that there can be multiple ways to accomplish the same thing, but wanted to hear from others if they had a better suggestion for this Appreciate the guidance

Okay. Thank you

Looks like I am posting a lot all over these forums, but I appreciate the help everyone has provided. I am following another thread which is now closed down. The process they used seems to work well, but had a few questions and some trouble shooting help I need as well. They included a 1500 millisecond delay in the "pressed button" section, why? With that delay, I had to hold the button for about 3 seconds, which felt like an awkward amount of time. When I deleted the 1500, the program seems to execute fine with a slight hold. I have my spotify playlists going through Single Tap / Double Tap / Triple Tap so I can have 3 playlists. I use the arrow keys for volume. When music is playing and I hold it briefly then release, the music stops as it should For the 1st If part, since music takes about 10 seconds to start playing once I hit single/double/triple tap, i'd ideally like the LED's to start flashing so the user knows that the system is thinking and working. Unfortunately, this doesn't work.

Thanks. I decided to open up a bunch of of my device events and was able to find it. Luckily didn't take too long. I am having trouble executing a piece of code. I am wondering what I am doing wrong here. I am trying to make my Keypad button toggle my blinds opening and close. I have it set up so If blinds are selected for Favorite Position, then LED color will turn Off color, and if they are selected to Open position, then LED will turn to On Color What I think & want to happen when I push "Blind Button" in the Family room right door is (but it is not working...): It checks to see if the Kitchen keypad Blind Button is using On or Off Color If the kitchen keypad button is On, then execute the command to move shades to Favorite location. If not, it does the other command What is actually happening... The Family Room Right Door Blinds button is toggling On/Off color whenever I hit it, but blinds aren't moving. The Kitchen LED light is staying at the correct status (On for Open, and Off color for Favorite position).

How are you quickly searching through all your programming to find something? For instance, in my office bathroom, the keypad button 1 LED is going to it's LED on state (but the light isn't turning on). This is telling me that somewhere in all my programming I by accident included Bathroom Keypad Button 1 to be an action. I have to assume that there could be a way to look at all the scripts that are made to help determine where a mistake was made faster.

Gotcha! Thank you. Slowly figuring out how to create the code ,but all practice

Thanks, but I only see "when timer expires" on the left hand side under programming for the Timer section. On the right hand under actions: I see select the timer, start, stop, restart, rest, pause, resume, and change interval. In theory, I can create a timer just for this action, and then move the bottom two If statements to be under this action. To me, it makes more sense to have it nestled in the code I copied above so its easy to find

Here is the code I generated so far. The 1st set of If statements seems to work fine, but my last if (once timer is expired) is not working as I expected The 2nd Set: The 1st part (if timer is running , then turn black ). It does turn black if the timer is running which is working fine The next part doesn't work as I intended. What i want to happen is: Once the timer expires, turn the LED back to the original state (Whether reverse is True or False) After trying to figure it out, I am assuming that the code is really determining if the Timer is expired at the moment which it would not be. I'm not sure how to put in "Once the timer expires, then run this code"

Thank you very much. I have some of what you described already in place, but i like the ideas you provided!

On my keypad, I have a button that reverses my fan. When I click the button, the fan will start to go into reverse and the LED will change colors based on the direction it is going. The issue is that when I click on the button, the LED will happen instantaneous , but it can take 5-10 seconds for the fan to register the reverse command. If I hit the Reverse command during that 5-10 seconds, then no additional Reverse command will be received by the Fan, but the LED will change again. How do I do the following: If keypad button is pressed, then Execute the Reverse command and disable the button for 30 seconds. This will ideally make it so someone won't think that they hit reverse and nothing is working, and then hit it again which will throw the LED colors off. Unfortunately, there isn't 2 way feedback from the fan, so I am having to create a workaround. Appreciate the help on this!

Gotcha thanks! Are you aware of a bond module that has the reverse function? It looks like the smart by bond fans have it but then would need to replace the entire fan

Gotcha thanks! Are you aware of a bond module that has the reverse function? It looks like the smart by bond fans have it but then would need to replace the entire fan

Gotcha thanks! Are you aware of a bond module that has the reverse function? It looks like the smart by bond fans have it but then would need to replace the entire fan

I’m now confused. On my current set up , I have it set up that bond bridge recognizes my fan rf. Through that, I am able to reverse the fan and through the bond driver, I can reverse. Only problem is that control4 won’t recognize what is happening at the fan so I can’t trigger leds to show fan levels or lights. This $42 Home Depot piece doesn’t have a reverse button or are you saying that control4 won’t recognize it? I appreciate the information from you on

Okay thanks! And with this fan module part, I don’t need the bond bridge piece, right? This module has bond built in and I can return the other? right now, I’m able to use control4 to reverse the fan. I assume I can do that still here?

I currently have my fan set up on bond bridge and driver but it doesn’t appear that there is 2 way feedback. Is that what others are finding? with the remote control you posted in the beginning of this thread, do I still need the bond driver , bond bridge ? How do you bring it into control4 atmosphere? And does the remote have a reverse function ?

I was told that esssential switches are not able to get LED colors similar to keypads. Right now, when I have it set up so when a keypad button is active, it shows a LED color, and a different when it is off. In my hallway, I have several keypads that show Green when it is active, blue when it is off. Id like the essential switches to show green so someone walking through knows that that light switch is already on. It gets confusing in the bathroom where I have 3 essential switches next to one another. Guests have told me that they get confused figuring out which light to hit. there are 2 switches that have blue LED (showing it is off), and 1 switch with no led (which shows the light is on). They get confused which one to hit. I might just need to switch the order of operations where if a light is on, the LED is blue, and if it is off, the LED is blank. What solutions have others done for their essential switches in terms of LED's to help make it easy to know if the light is on

I was told from my installer that the Honeywell wireless motion sensors (5800 series) will go into a battery save mode, so it will not detect motion very well unless the system is armed. He said he would strongly recommend wiring it as it will detect motion quickly and won't go into the battery save mode. Have you heard of the motion detector doing that or recommend one that could be brought easily into the honeywell system for motion that is wireless?