Carter Hobson

Well said... My sentiments exactly. 

Carter, I would recommend you program the lighting scenes in Lutron and then use of the phantom (I think this is what they are called in Lutron) buttons to activate them in Control4. The reason is "popcorn" effect if you control more than a few lights. Basically, each light will turn on (or off) one or a few seconds after each other. Not a great user experience. Creating the scene in Lutron then mapping it to a Control4 scene allows the light command to be run from the Lutron processor and be instantaneous. In Control4, you can easily create a "combined" command that would then run a number of actions from a button press. For example, when pressing keypad button, turn down lights, turn on projector, amplifier, pull screen down and start a movie. If you use Lutron keypads, you can actually do the same thing. The only thing you lose (vs a Control4 keypad) is the multipress as these are not recognized in Composer for a Lutron keypad. 
Integration between Lutron RA2 (and de facto RA3 or Homeworks) works very well and is very stable. Reach out directly or on the forum if you have specific question on it or need help. And programming in Lutron is quite easy and software is/can be (depending on version) accessible to anyone. Hope it helps.

Hi Guys. question.
we have a project where the whole house is in lutron homeworks 8 Series. (picture of the controller attached)  we have like 16 keypads and they want to keep the Lutron modules and controller.
we have to integrate the homeworks with control4, but the keypads have to be removed.
can we use the same processor to power a control4 wireless keypad? i don't know if control 4 have a keypad that may be compatible. 
or we can have the electricians run a power 120 line to every keypad location and we just use the regular 120 wireless keypads?
then at the end we do the integration in control4 using the standard drivers.
whats the best practice here?
 
 

Should be fine, but I would still agree that you're better off just buying an $80 Roku because Control4 will be able to work with it flawlessly, whereas controlling the smart TV apps can be hit or miss.

ARC requires CEC to be on.
CEC likes to mess up the operation with smart remotes.

Have all your sources at the receiver, and use the display as a dumb monitor for smoothest operations.

Buy a Roku don't use smart tv to stream. ARC is trouble.

C4 doesnt play well like that. Im sure with the path setter driver and programming you can make it work but most of us stay away from ARC, zone 2, CEC as a standard