Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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I want to get rid of control4 🤬🤬🤬 (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently bought a house where everything is controlled by a Control4 system. I hate this because I cannot customize anything on my own and have to pay someone else to do it. I also have Alexa devices all over the house, but I have to pay $100 per year to use them with Control4 🤬🤬🤬

I know I can change the light switches to compatible ones, but I don't know how to do that with the motorized blackouts and the propane fireplace. Can someone please help me? I don't want to be a hostage to Control4!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hi, With myServer, assuming you get hardware that is supported, this is all very well supported. We do video and audio matrices every day for our commercial sports bar / restaurant business.

The description of the control4 experience is close to a myServer experience, but not quite. It's not as easy as that, but the idea is the same. myServer is MUCH more customizable than Control4 so it's a little more involved.

Each device / channels are associated to a room. When you choose that room, then the system assumes you want to watch video in that room. So, the Outputs are made "active" for that room. You then choose a video source (like "Roku"). This then sets the Active video input. Behind the scenes, myServer tells the HDMI matrix to set that Input to that Output. And then you are watching your Roku (in your equipment rack) in your Living Room (the room you selected).

With the SmartRemote, you can choose that room, indicate it's YOU (not your significant other) and that you want to watch Roku. The rest is done using the programming like described above. An emulator of this experience is available at https://allonis.com

And if this is what you want to implement, your timing is good because we have an active Kickstarter for what you would need at a greatly discounted prices:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1957275162/smartremote-a-customizable-remote-control

Feel free to ask further questions!!!