BCHutch

Hi all, thank you for the help! A couple answers and updates. 1. Tidal works great in the app if you're simply selecting a room and playing music. If you try and get smart or put it into scenes, it doesn't work. You can't select anything in when then and I'm told its a bug they are working on. Though it is still not working and it has been over a year. I did find that Spotify is much more reliable and now have this in my Alexa routines working great. Tidal never worked in this manner. 2. My Roku is at the rack and run through a receiver 3. I had Cat6 run with the build. We used that initially and it was horribly buggy. We replaced the baluns with upgraded ones and still weren't able to get things working. Now I have a 75ft HDMI cable run (not optimal) and it works much better. The issue is delay - when we start new videos or turn the system on you get sound long before picture. Sometimes the TV doesn't even recognize the input and doesn't switch over at all so you have to completely restart everything and try again. 4. The way we got Alexa voice working was to place an Alexa at the rack and set up voice scenes. It works ok, but yes, you need to be very clear about how you want your commands set up. Check the attachments. Of course, the issue is that I need the dealer to work on this stuff for me. It's nice though that after you turn on a room audio, you can speak to Alexa fairly normally for song selection and/or volume. It can be a little goofy if you don't turn off the room audio audibly before other routines run. Overall, I'm not too happy and think there are probably much easier solutions through Amazon, Google, Apple etc. This is just very expensive and very closed.

So I have a new build and we were directed to a company that installed whole house speaker, theater speaker setup in the living room, and Control4 to run everything. My goal was to be able to essentially control everything in the home with voice and quickly add new smart home features. My issue is that I feel like this is a very limited and confusing system - but maybe it's training? Here are some examples: - The only way I can play music in any room using Tidal is to manually search this out through the Control4 app. I can then pick and choose rooms. - I had a tech come in and finally get Alexa voice control working for music, but now I can't play different music in different rooms. When I try, they all change at the same time. - I have constant issues with Roku and the TV setup. Sometimes the watch setting works and everything comes on, sometimes it doesnt? The HDMI signal is very slow and goes out a lot (we moved away from cat6 because nobody could get that to work consistently). - I'm looking at smart lighting and seem to only have Control4 or Lutron as options. But I don't know why that would be any better through Control4 than setting it up through Alexa and using any lighting I want (think Brilliant). I feel like the list goes on and on but my main question is really, why Control4? I feel like the only thing it's really doing for me is allowing me to control music in different rooms? What is the value in this extremely costly option? Thank you for your help!