Hi Everyone,
I bought a house with Control4 system, I spent a lot of time online trying to learn more about it. This is the setup I have inherited in term of equipments : Packaged router, Key Digital KD-MS4x4G, Audio Matrix 16x16, Amplifier PAMP8-100, EA-3 Controller. It is supposed to control lighting low voltage, sonos in-ceiling speakers (4x main floor + subwoofer I never heard working, 3x second floor, 3x third floor), Ecobees of all 4 floors, camera for alarm system (which is not working currently or I paid CA$175 for the guy to troubleshoot), 5 TVs (they only left 2 and I have 3 of those black box which I guess are converters) and a door bell that is currently not working for some reasons I can't find as it used to work before the guy handed over the system to me. I got the dealer to come and transfer ownership to me.
I like my DIY and can't stomach spending $175 each time I want to change something or even pay a yearly fee to have remote access to anything when I am not in my home. I am looking to get rid of it as I mainly want to be able to control my music (and the rack takes room and the wife definitely want it gone), I also don't like how the ecobee are managed under that system, and I would install a ring doorbell.
I am left with those questions that I hope you guys can help me with:
- I believe I will have to buy 3 sonos amp to control each floor of the house as it can only power 4 in-ceiling speaker. Can I / Should I still use the amplifier PAMP8-100.?
- There is 6 keys wireless switch keypad that control the outdoor light (3 groups of lights) and is linked to some control 4 switch located next to electric box (don't ask me why I have no idea how it has been done). Can I remove that particular wireless keypad and install a Lutron instead ? The timer and pre-progammed scenes do not work for me, if someone can otherwise help troubleshoot it at a reasonable cost I could keep using it for the time being. Or can I modify scenes with HE ?
I think the Control4 is good if you have a bigger house and a lot to control, I believe the people who had installed primary focused on audio / video and did't go full in with all lights managed by C4, nor the blinds that are still controlled by a separate remote... so the use of it is quite limited in my case. I also don't really care about having audio managed by it as I have a media room with a marantz amplifier and KEF system that I love, so not for me and I am not sure I need to pay someone to change each time I want the light to go off at a 8Pm instead of 7PM.
Thanks for your inputs and time!
Maxime