Cranky Oldman

for what it's worth, I'll share my experience buying an older Pakedge SX-24P on eBay to expand my network.  The main reason I picked Pakedge was because it has the network ports on the back of the unit, just like the Araknis switches and router that my Control4 dealer sold me, so it fits into an empty slot on the same rack without looking strange.  The Pakedge is working fine but one thing I hadn't anticipated is that the LED's, both front and rear, are blue and very, very bright.  As far as I can tell, there is no way to turn them off from the UI (unlike my much-newer Araknis switches that allow LED's to be turned off).  My rack is in a closet next to a room where I watch TV, and the bright blue pulsing light from the Pakedge switch finds its way under the door, which is super annoying when you're trying to watch something in a dark room.  I could block the light by filling the gap at the bottom of the door but that gap is there to let some ventilation air into the closet.  So I ended up covering the Pakedge LED's with black tape which was time consuming.  Also I wasn't smart enough to think about rack ears when I went shopping for a switch on eBay.  Lots of switches are sold with rack ears, but not the one I bought... doh!  So I had to buy those separately and it probably took me at least an hour to figure out exactly what size and hole spacing was needed and then to find a matching set on Amazon, wait a couple of days for delivery, and install them.  More time was consumed troubleshooting a problem getting a secure https: connection to work with the Pakedge.  Browsers report "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH".  I Googled that and found a couple of suggested workarounds, but bottom line is the switch doesn't correctly support modern SSL standards.  It's not a big issue on a private network, but it's one more thing that sucked up some time and made me start to regret my purchase.  Also you mentioned VLAN's and wondered about mixing and matching brands in that context:  well, I have 5 VLAN's running, and I didn't have any real problems with getting the Pakedge to work with them, but I definitely lost some time -- maybe 1/2 hour -- on the learning curve because the Pakedge method of configuring VLAN's was sufficiently different from the Araknis method that I made a couple of little missteps along the way.  I'm retired so the "time is money" axiom doesn't really apply, but certainly if I was on the clock I would have been further ahead to buy a brand new "expensive" Araknis and have it work immediately, vs. this "cheap" used Pakedge that ate up many hours dealing with the issues described above.  YMMV!

Thanks! I  have the same build version.    I solved when I found the app data file and deleted it…. Plus a whole mess of junk associated with older updates…

I only have one matrix switcher for audio.  There is a separate switcher for video but the three rooms I was trying to link are all audio-only.  I think for now I'll just put this issue aside.  Maybe at some point down the road the root cause of the problem will become apparent.
Meanwhile I'm realizing I need to be really careful about interactions between my various automations -- my programming above unintentionally triggered a separate "entertaining" automation linked to the dining room audio that I created a few weeks ago.  I might have to start documenting some of this stuff!    

Yeah. I have a single hub that’s covers my 7100 sqft house. It is centrally located though. 

Thanks SAC4 user -- I have the Room Control driver installed but haven't played with it yet.  I guess it's time to check it out!

No updates yet.

As far as I know, there is no way to do this.
I was also an Apple Music fan and eventually moved to Tidal in order to get decent integration with C4.  My view is that Tidal and Deezer have the best integration.  Although some people really like the Spotify integration.
If you want real flexibility without programming too much, linking Josh into C4 is said to be a great option.

It should be instant... 

@Cranky Oldman Could you email me your controller snapshot to ~~~? I'll create a bug report for you and get someone to look into this.
Edit: Email redacted to reduce spam from web crawlers.

yeah it should be pretty near instant, sometimes I send a Refresh Navigators but I'm not sure if that really does anything, and it sounds like you've already done that if you're seeing it in the app.

Many thanks Darin & other responders for getting me back in business!

Many thanks Darin & other responders for getting me back in business!

I just heard release day was moved to next week on Tuesday (2/27/2024), but everything is signed off so I would expect it to be live that day and shouldn't be any additional delays.  

@Cranky Oldman I just DM'd you the info to get the beta version, I believe it matches what will be the final release.
 
 

@Darin, PM C4 CX Platform

The beta works fine. Someone here can probably get you a copy. 

Beta version is working fine for me, i had some intial hiccups to get it working had to delete all old versions, and delete all C4 data from C4 appdata folder and it worked fine.
Darin from C4 team was a great help to get it done for me.