DarioH

12 minutes ago, RAV said:

Dumb. $60 dual low voltage relay, one to open, another to close.
Does not require power to maintain open/close. Same co has several models depending on relay needs.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XN5TZX7/ref=twister_B06XCYY5RZ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

What would I connect this to to control it? a Z2IO?  Appreciate your link/input!

1 minute ago, RAV said:

Do you want a controlled water valve?
Or a Smart water valve?

Controlled valve can be low or high voltage, relay controlled, and the Control4 system does all the smart stuff.
Smart valves (Moen, Sinope etc), use their own sensors, app shut off water as their app has it programmed, and then you may also be able to integrate with it for status and over rides.

Controlled, under $100
Smart, many hundreds

Hi, looking into both options.  I have a Rachio with some Hunter solenoid valves to water my greenhouse plants.  But I'm being asked to look into a water shut off valve for our main.  If there is one that is smart and cheap, that would be good.  Just putting feelers out there, as I'm certain its one of those situations where cheap and smart don't produce results.  Thanks!

1 minute ago, Ryanjackson said:

Ive put in a handfull of the moen flo's with good results. Have also done an Elk motorized valve that was controlled via a Elk security panel which monitored water sensors. Id recomend the flo as it does flow monitoring as well as well as their leak temperature detectors and has Away/home modes which can be set through the c4 driver.

Ryan

I'm mostly using this in a greenhouse setting.  I have a Rachio with a bunch of Hunter solenoid valves connected to it to water the plants.  So the water detection and features of a lot of these isn't really needed.  I do very much appreciate your answer and input thought.  I'll take a look at Elk.   Thanks!

I'm looking into getting a water shut off valve for a water main.  Has to be 1/2 inch and either IP or Zigbee controlled.  I've already found a couple, but they are pricey and have features I don't really need.  Just need a simple one.

Good contenders: https://support.sinopetech.com/en/1.5.7.3 and https://www.moen.com/search/shutoff

Anyone here used one of these, or another one? 

Hi, I'm a small business dealer, just two techs.  Any recommendation on a decent helpdesk ticketing system that is somewhat helpful?  I know of a bunch of them when I google search, but a lot of them are meant with IT in mind. Thank you.

Hey, I've been looking into this for my greenhouse and there isn't any options for just the light sensor.  BUT the Tempest Weather station does measure light, but its an overkill just for light measuring.  It does measure temp, humidity, wind, rain and its solar powered.  Maybe that might help you, as I plan probably to use this for my greenhouse. 

On 7/6/2022 at 8:13 PM, booch said:

 

Thanks for the info!  I wish there are some like the Ecobee thermostat with their Smart sensors, except without the thermostat part, or at least it doens't need all the thermostat features, just a hub to connect the sensors to.  Having a lot of the zigbee contact sensors doesn't come cheap, most of the time I suppose I can get away with a couple of them.  If Control 4 made just the temp and humidity sensor with batteries or wired, that would be awesome.  So much HVAC gets wasted because the temp only gets reported from the thermostat even if it has the "remote" wired temp sensor, its not enough in my opinion. 

On 6/9/2022 at 5:08 PM, RAV said:

More than you asked for, but Tempest weather stations are awesome (and fully wireless). There's a not cheap driver too on Blackwire.

There is a <$10 board on Amazon with a relay output.

I use Tempest weather stations already, I was trying to see if anyone had anything else without mentioning Tempest so not to steer the suggestions.  What I found out is that Tempest has programming set on the back end where if rain is not forcasted, the rain sensor turns off.  Also if its a light rain, it will wait 3 minutes before setting a notification.  I needed the Tempest to work as just a rain sensor primarily, and other variables secondary. I called them and what they did was get rid of the programming they had on their back end.  The good thing is that, any rain is immediately triggered by the sensor allowing me to close windows.  The bad thing is that a strong wind will pick up as rain as its a haptic rain sensor.  I thought it was collecting rain and somehow figuring out how much rain was collected.  But for me strong wind doesn't matter, the windows still need to close.   Either way, call the Tempest support, not Blackwire and give them your station ID, and they will make the changes.

Hi, for the Lumas cameras, the reason they were not showing up on the T4 touchscreen was that the framerate on them was not set right.  I don't remember what we ended up choosing, maybe 25 fps?  But check those out, i was on the phone with a Control 4 tech, and they mentioned to change the framerate. I had to go into the camera via its own IP address and change it from there. 

Is there a wireless rain sensor that has Control 4 drivers?  I'm looking for a simple detects water sensor type of a thing I can put on a roof and it would be wireless if possible. Solar rechargable maybe?  

Another topic is having indoor wireless temperature sensors.  I would like to place in multiple of them around the room to get a better room reading for the HVAC system. 

Hi, i have a customer that has a couple of cameras missing from showing up in this ios app.  I can see all of them on my android and the touchscreens.  I did all the standard troubleshooting, refresh navigator, reinstall app.  We tried 2 different ios devices, same thing.  But on 2 different Android devices it works, they all show up. Any obvious things I'm missing?

Cameras are all PoE Lumas from C4. They all get IP address, all same settings, high res with medium quality. Some other settings to look at?