South Africa C4 user Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 1 hour ago, RyanE said: With the Control4 "Voice Scenes" driver, your voice scenes themselves can only be on/off, but I don't think there's anything that would keep you from using a dummy light that gets set to a value in an Alexa routine, and then checking that light's value. That said, I've never used the Epic driver, and haven't setup any Alexa routines. If the Epic driver is working for you, I'd say the best thing is of course to keep using it. RyanE I have used both the native driver and the Epic driver extensively and this is correct, you can get round the “set” limitation in the native driver by using a dummy light. However, this does get a bit messy and it would be so much nicer if the Voice Scenes allowed a set command also. The other big advantage of the Epic driver is the reaction speed. The native driver is virtually as fast once connected. So if one executes 2 voice commands (using the native driver) within a short period of time, the first is frustratingly slow while the second is pretty much instantaneous. I moved to the native driver a couple of years ago expecting that there would be significant development on this and that both of these frustrations would disappear, but I was wrong (not the first time, nor the last!). I do feel that a persistent connection or the ability to programmatically force the connection (combined with some clever programming to “guess” when someone is likely to speak soon) would help significantly with the speed issue. RyanE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Well @RyanE, I will have to take another look at the C4 driver then. If it now supports passing and being able to query the light level it could do what I need. But when it first came out there were only events for on/off/up/down - there was no way to query level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusSafadi Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 With V200 working OK, any reboot of controller causes license to become Not activated. Deleting the license key and pasting it again activates the driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ee999 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 I noticed I can no longer discover new devices with the epic Alexa driver. Is it still required to have a generation 1 Alexa device in order to have new devices discovered? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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