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Assuming you have a security panel tied to c4, why not an outdoor sensor tied into your panel?

51 minutes ago, JamesPB said:

When's that arriving? 

I still seem to be on 3.3.0 while 3.3.1 has been released.

Any thoughts on speakers or the costs to set up Chowmain IFTTT and Echos?

Re: 3.3.3 - Its out. Released April sometime I believe. 

And IFTTT is not consistently (read: almost neverly) instant. At least for me. Ymmv. 

I've had success with voicemonkey and the chowmain tcp driver. I use it to trigger Alexa skill-only devices, and I use it for some alerts. (minus the early on startup-type outages).

Yes, I do this today with the Chowmain experience buttons suite.

https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/utility/experience-buttons-suite-for-control4-chowmain/

35 minutes ago, brekfastb said:

Looking for this driver: avswitch_232_ip_zektor_AUD1600.c4i 

I picked this matrix up to replace my own thats on its way out but it doesnt want to use the PulseEight drivers in Control4 and the drivers on PulseEight website seem locked down. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

I have it, PM me. 

35 minutes ago, cybuch said:

Is it just me, or are there a ton of new ads on the site?

LOL, it's only like $10 for an ad free subscription.

12 hours ago, Control4Savant said:

For the record… I can literally hard code a new driver on my own for a Savant project as long as I have the API info. 

I'm sure your clients must love it when those integrations randomly break. 

20 hours ago, msgreenf said:

I have good neeo network experiences - I just find the device lags too much refreshing. Don't think that is network

This for me as well. I am another outcast that actually really likes my Neeos. I don't have the "waiting for network" issues, when I pick one up, it's ready to go.

My only issue has been the lag switching between rooms (2-3 seconds while it sits on the "refreshing settings" screen). My guess would be memory on the device.

I wish they would show all of the proxies that our phones and tablets show (pool, security panel, etc.).

Have you considered adding some ferrite toroid chokes?

I've had positive results around sensitive LV and Amateur Radio gear and lightning strikes (not to mention rf interference prevention). 

I understand it's a testy subject especially around lightning protection, just throwing it out as an option.

2 minutes ago, Cyknight said:

Side note: please do not just randomly attempt to add files there, you are liable to fill up the system's memory, just use it to point to announcements add to the system the 'proper' way via Composer

As someone who doesn't use announcements, what is the proper way?

I think you just SMB to your controller and they are in:

/mnt/mediashare/announcements

2 hours ago, ajd123 said:

Velux makes a bridge that allows for communication with Apple & Google. Since Control4 can talk to Apple/Google would it be safe to say C4 programming can be achieved even without a C4 driver made by Velux?

https://valeblinds.com/buy/velux-internet-gateway-app-control-kig-300_14406.htm

Maybe this?

https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/velux-klf200/

I'd give it a shot (check the release notes first). You should be able to update it from HE (I have to do this with a NAD bluesound device when I update firmware as well). 

1 hour ago, BY96 said:

Got it. Yes, he entered the IP address (which I already had static in the router). 

The only difference now is that the Arcam seems slower in switching inputs. Power and volume are fine. It is fine as is, but I find it weird that the switching is slow. 

Did you check the Arcam site to make sure you're on the latest driver? Sometimes new firmware needs a driver update. 

https://www.control4.com/docs/product/binary-media-over-ip-moip/networking-best-practices/english/latest/binary-media-over-ip-moip-networking-best-practices-rev-b.pdf

25 minutes ago, RAV said:

More things that can go wrong. Power supply, stickers, aiming, WiFi.... and you still need MyQ 2.0 interfaces per door.
Not knocking their product by any means, but hardwired will always be more reliable whenever possible.
And a quarter the cost.

I agree on hardwire being optimal, was just sharing another option. 

Just now, RAV said:

Please, share with the class.

https://www.garadget.com/

24 minutes ago, drmark12pa said:

Yes, I've even rebooted controller, turned zone off and back in, changed the settings while zone is on and while it is off.  I changed the lowest band to 100hz as it was odd all other 7 zones were 100hz and this affected zone had 80 hz as lowest even though I had reset to defaults.  I'm going to check it again tonight to see where the numbers are 

Do you have dsp turned on for the controller? Are you showing the room eq in the navigator for that room?

I'm on Jandy iaqualink 2.0. everything in my Jandy app shows up in c4. Control is instant. My wife likes not having to use the jandy app. Jandy overall has made lots of improvements to the app (and Alexa skill) in the last 24 months. 

We use Alexa (the iaqualink skill) most of the time. I try to use native skills for the rare ones that are actually good. 

One thing I dislike is that the toggle buttons in c4 don't seem to correctly reflect state consistently (but they do always work). I do get some LUA errors on the Jandy driver so I would assume it's due for an update but not sure when that will happen - it's pretty old.

One touch (a Jandy feature) has never worked for me in c4 which is kind of a bummer as we have a few things programmed into one touch but overall I'm happy with the integration. 

I cannot speak for Pentair. We looked at intellicenter when we were on Elan only because iaqualink was so dated before the updates. After all of the updates and modernization of the app (and API's) I haven't taken another look. 

Overall, integrated or not, I would highly recommend some form of pool automation or "smart" control. I honestly would hate my pool and spa without it. 

I mean it's possible I'm completely wrong, I haven't owned Onkyo for years. I just ran into issues converting HDMI in to zone 2 analog out time after time. 

In my experience, this is pretty typical with Onkyo & Integra. I'm assuming your feeding an HDMI in to zone2. If that's the case, I believe even the HDMI in has to be set to 2 channel pcm or it won't pass.

6 hours ago, Darien said:

and harbeths.

Sorry. all I read was "blah blah blah Harbeths". 

1 hour ago, Cyknight said:

The simplest solution may simply be to not have them named 1-6, but assign an LMS a name per person: then each person just uses 'their' LMS.

This is how I used to do it on my old Elan system with Sonos connects because there was no way to do source pooling on Elan (at least not that we could figure out). Worked surprisingly well with 4 of us in the house. 

3 hours ago, LollerAgent said:

In this case, you aren't using C4's native audio services at all?   You need one node per discrete audio stream (eg, if I want Spotify in one room, Pandora in another at the same time, I need two nodes)?

Correct. One node per stream. Or something like the NAD ci-580v2 which is 4 sources (like 4 nodes) in a 1u chassis (which is what I use for Bluesound). 

Be aware that there is no Pandora on bluesound and Spotify is still just connect (not native like on Autonomics MMS). You would need to use the c4 audio stream for Pandora. 

Don't you have 4 serial ports on an ea5? 2 db9, 2 shared with IR out 1 and 2?

I really like the new menu layout on my phone (not a huge fan of the graphics, but the color status is cool).

Would be nice if there was an option to set my tablets to use the old menu layout.