composer pro non-SSL connection

[ziocan]

Hello,

do you know whether it's possible to configure composer pro (2.x) not to use an SSL connection when connecting to controller?

I remember that earlier releases (2.5) tried SSL first then falled back to non SSL if the first failed.

Is there a configuration option to tell composer to directly use the non SSL port (5020)? This is for a troubleshooting of course.

 

Thanks in advance

Rick

[Cyknight]

Of course it's just troubleshooting.

And no.

[alanchow]

You should reach out to your local Control4 technical support team member for assistance with your troubleshooting.

[ziocan]

Hey guys don't need your lecture, I'm using Control4 since 4 years now, write drivers for it, etc

I would like to understand why I can't open my 3.1 project with Composer 2.9 and I believe the openssl version installed on the

controller has disabled weak SSL ciphers that are used by pre-3.0 composers. 

I already have enabled port 5020 on controller to be accessed from network but only 2.5.3 connects, not later versions...

So perfectly legit question isn't it.

 

Thanks for your time

Rick

 

[msgreenf]

Not really. Control4 has increased security and there are major changes in how is 3 and os 2 work. So it's never gonna happen.

You are basically asking why I can't run win 10 programs on XP.

[ziocan]

I do know it is not supported but the upgrade to 3.1 had left my cover art behind so I was trying to open the project with a previous version of composer.

From controller log I see that when I connect with 2.9 to the 3.1 controller  there is an SSL cipher mismatch error and I think that's the only issue we have when trying  to use a pre-3.0 composer (as you said it's due to the new openssl library that refuses weak ciphers).  So I wanted to try and avoid SSL  but it seems all recent releases of composer do not try to use the non-secure port anymore.

I recovered the cover art in the meanitime by unpacking the project file manually, extracting the images and uploading them to the controller.

But still the curiosity remained.

Thanks

Rick

[Cyknight]

So in 4 years you haven't figured out that you can simply export the media library in composer from a back-up and load it in again?

Or you don't have a back-up?

Or to simply ask how to recover what you need and you would have gotten the above answers?

 

Curiosity killed the cat/

[ziocan]

In 4 years I have seen countless bugs in various versions of composer pro, that's what I have seen , my dear. Including the latest: cover art gone MIA while upgrading.

 

I first tried to open the project in virtual director on 3.1.0 and got this:

 

 

So: I tried Composer pro 2.9.1 (the OS  I was running before upgrading to 3.1.0) but when I try to  launch the virtual director it crashes:

 

Then I tried 2.10.1 and the virtual director did not crash, but when loading the project still:

 

 

So, I could not open the pre-upgrade version of the project because no version of composer pro virtual director would open it.

I do have a spare HC-800 and probably I could have installed that with 2.9.1 and then could have exported from there, but unpacking the project file was faster and easier than the "official" process.

 

FYI I  have backups of after every minor change I did to the project.  Oldest is from mid 2018.

Rick