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Glad it helped! Thanks for watching brother!

So there is a polling period between the radio ra processor and the control4 processor. By default it’s set to maybe 6 seconds or something. You can change it however, it’s not recommended. When you turn on a light from the control4 app are you getting feedback at your Lutron devices? Or from within the Lutron app? There are a number of things that could be causing delays between the two processors, if the physical Lutron devices are giving instant feedback then you could be nearing capacity on the c4 processor, have super heavy network traffic going back to the c4 processor or it could simply require refreshing navigators. Start here, determine if the c4 app is providing instant feedback to your Lutron devices and the Lutron app, if so I’d be curious what c4 controller your running and what other ip integrations are also going on. Hope this helps

@@QVisionGarage The feedback between the app and touchscreen is instant so that's no issue but when I press the dimmer physically it wouldn't change or update at all, only when using the touchscreen or app I would be certain that I am controlling the light so I would have to turn on and off and on again from the app to be sure that the light is on or vice versa for off. Just the physical feedback isn't there I am using a CORE 3 running composer 3.4.2.

On the regular.

I appreciate you watching and your detailed take on things brother. What part of the world are you from? I can’t remember if I said this in the video but I’ve since moved on from field work and come into an engineers role. My day to day now consists of design lighting control systems, which it’s always great to progress on a career path but sometimes I do miss the challenges of field work. Just not the travels. What I find interesting is when I was a field tech and as I see the field techs I work with, there is no convenient to have everything, like you said there always a need for another load out. Purpose built for rough in or finish. The load out I presented I feel served me right for what I’ll call light all purpose. Little bit of finish, little bit of service. As I progressed so much of what I did was on a laptop, and I don’t say that to shit on anyone grinding out field work. I have a ton of respect for hardworking mechanics. The industry needs more of them and I wouldn’t be where I am without the year of field experience I had. It just seems like the blanket of low voltage av requires mechanics to have sooooo much to have to be prepared for everything. That one time you don’t have a specific tool tends to warrant the purchase and before you know it you’ve got an entire van of stuff that is “just in case”. My last 2 years of field work consisted of New York City and the far east end of Long Island, now if you know nothing about New York City, know that you never want to drive there. Like ever, at all because hours in traffic. When I moved into a lighting controls technicians role I was able to pair down to a multimeter, set of wire strippers, a toner and a laptop which meant I could take the train. I’d watch the AV side of the company I was working for constantly drive in an entire shop worth of tools “just in case”. I’d love to know where you hail from brother. What your story is, and what’s your trajectory? This channel started as a way to pass time during the shutdown of Covid and I’ve met so many really cool people from all over the world because of it. I’ve been able to help people with various control system problems and made some lifelong friends from all corners of the earth. Feel free to email me at qvisionentertainment at gmail dot com. Thanks again for watching man. I hope you’re doing great things and continuing to aspire to achieve more everyday!

@@QVisionGarage I am in the UK and have been with the same large telecoms company in various roles for over 40 years..For part of that time i was also in our version of the Army Reserve, again party in a coms role. These days I am office based doing remote diagnostics and configurations on broadband services, and support our engineers in the field as they install and maintain both copper and fibre based broadband. Sadly my main tool is a laptop although I try to keep hand in at home and helping family with various projects. You are right about how diverse the low voltage industry is even within the same sectors, never mind across sectors. When I was on the tools my patch covered small towns and rural countryside, so very much a backwater compared to NYC! I remember attending a course with some gents who had a similar role to me but based in London..I was surprised to find out they only covered three or four office blocks with in the city and either walked or took the Underground between them... Theoretically we all did the same job but in reality it was worlds apart so I can relate to what you said about working in NYC!

UK! Nice, thank you for the reply man. I’ve never been over. NY between NYC and the hamptons is like London and the rural countryside. I was covering both depending on the day. At first with broad scope av and then later with just Lutron lighting control systems. 40 years is a long time brother. You’ve seen the evolution. Which I find quite cool. I came into the industry on the end of crt TVs so I’ve seen a lot but not 40 years worth. In any case, I’ll extend to you the invite of all my worldly friends of the channel, should you ever find yourself coming out to NY please reach out and the first pint (or sparkling water) is on me. A couple years back someone I become very friendly with came over from Kenya and it was really cool to share a few pints and talk shop. Stay safe brother!

Yes 2 way

I have no idea if you’re trolling me or not but thanks for watching dude. I hope my videos help you. There’s a lot to unpack in your response, flashing lights would require some sort of trigger, a motion sensor ideally. As far as changing colors, the lighting you have must be capable of color changing. I’m not aware of a native control4 RGBW light so that will also likely require a third party driver. Let’s say you have KASA bulbs and access to the Chowmain KASA driver, as well as a control4 motion sensor. You could implement a set of programming that based on the time of day, when the motion sensor senses motion to flashing your KASA lights between white and red. If your system is crashing I’d ask what controller you’re running? If you want to send me your project file, I’ll look at it when I have some time and assess what could be possibly causing your issue. This is all of course assuming you’re not just trolling me. Again either way thanks for watching brother!

Appreciate you brother!

I believe you can definitely do this. I’ll need to experiment. Are you using home edition or composer pro?

@@QVisionGarage I am using the home edition.

@@tennisfreak312 that is likely why. I don’t believe home edition will allow you to write conditionals.

Your dealer can likely do this for you, I’m sure there will be a fee, which honestly they deserve if they do what’s desired correctly but the home edition will limit what can and can’t be done by the end user.

If the system is already controlling the doors, you could make a custom buttons menu for just doors, sure.

You need to be an authorized dealer. There are people that have used nefarious manners to obtain software but I don’t know anything about that. I also don’t recommend tooling with a system you are not properly trained in. My videos are meant to help professional programmers with complex issue and best practices.

I’ll be honest I’m not familiar with Oyaide but I don’t see why not. Alternatively if you want to be safe and keep the TT in its original config, you can get female barrels for the male RCAs

Thanks for watching brother! It’s still kind of amazes me just how many people have seen these videos and found them helpful.

Hey Rick, thanks for watching. So yes, you can set the led status light next to the engraving to change to whatever color you want when it’s on. The actual backlight of the engraving (light behind the words on the button) I don’t believe we have any control over. I’m not 100% sure but if you’re a home gamer with composer home edition I’m not sure you can do this and you might have to have your dealer do it but it is possible to change the led status light for on and off.

@@QVisionGarage Thanks for replying! I do networking for a dealer, so I'm learning using Composer Pro...I can only seem to change ALL of the backgrounds not just one button....Follow up Q: Where would I look to schedule the background color to change at sunset and sunrise (let's say white at sunrise, and green at sunset)....

@@rickj8245 no problem Rick. I’ll say this, from a lighting programmers perspective, you likely don’t want to have all different colors for buttons, and you are correct you can only set global color preferences for the keypad on and off all buttons, however if you went into the programming tab you could get creative with the led options on individual buttons. I’ve never done this and I imagine it would be clunky. As for scheduling the colors to change, again I’ve never done this but this is the route I’d probably take. With the scheduler agent make a time clock for sunrise and sunset. In programming when each time clock hits their respective solar points trigger a variable, then write a conditional piece of programming set to trigger with that variable to apply the led color changes. This would I’m sure require some trial and error but I think it could work.

@@AerialAdvantageDrone Thanks so much for your thoughts....I'll see if the backgrounds change at sunset tonight :) Re: a button's background, I hear you re: consistent colors, I was just tying to play around and see where the limits are, so I guess I found one!

@@rickj8245 sorry Rick Aerial Advantage is my drone business. I must’ve replied under that handle. The above still stands tho.

Email me. Qvisionentertainment@gmail.com Where are you based out of? What product lines do you use? What type of third party integration is necessary? Always open to talk…

I’m not 100% sure. I would honestly consider it to be light duty due to nature of the rotating head though. I still use this ratchet all the time on small engine tune ups, anything that’s gonna require serious torque I’m reaching for a gun or larger drive fixed ratchet. Hope this helps. When I have some time I’ll look at it see if I can determine a better answer to your question.

Right. I was just curious because I bought a similar style ratchet that the handle wasnt all the way through the ratchet & when you need that little bit it folds on itself

Right on brother. Don’t be afraid, it’s already broken so odds are you can’t make it worse.

Thanks for watching brother hope it helped

Anytime brother. Thanks for watching. C4 is actually really easy and if you use good products it works really well. Like anything else, a poorly programmed system will cause word to spread that the control platform is crap, I’ve seen it with all the majors, crestron, savant, even URC. I would suggest if you start to venture into it, get the product for your own home and push it to its absolute limits and then dial it back so you know what it’s capable of, then run it for a bit and make sure your wife/partner/roommates can use it no problem. After that start installing it! Good luck.

@@QVisionGarage do you see this system on its way out in terms of use in the industry? I have an interview for a company today and am just wondering the severity of not understanding this fully yet. Thanks

Not at all. Control4 was bought by snap one a few years back. Snap one is one of the biggest suppliers of low voltage gear, they are here to stay. I wouldn’t be too worried about not being familiar, to be trained you have to be a dealer or employed by one and again it’s really easy. If I could offer any advice it would be have strong fundamentals in low voltage work, terminations, wire pulling, knowing how to efficiently layout and assemble a rack, understanding signal is huge, being able to read blueprints and system block wire diagrams. All those things are super important, programming is likely secondary to what most employers are looking for. Being super solid in the core elements separates a lead tech from a helper.

That was a dewalt made bag, I believe CLC make it for them, you can probably find the non branded CLC bag for less and truth be told it’s very old now

Appreciate you brother. Glad I could help. There are some other videos I’d love to make and will hopefully coming sooner than later. Just had a baby girl so everything takes a back seat to my daughter. Time is tight ya know. Another issue I have is I’m not very active in the c4 world any longer. My 9-5 is exclusively lutron programming. With the new stuff changing in c4 the way it has been it’s hard to keep up, let alone get my hands on it. In any case I appreciate you watching and commenting.

I don’t think you’d be able to do that because it’s not tied to a tuner. This uses some sorts of broadcast tuner metadata to import the channels

@@QVisionGarage Thanks for the quick reply. I really hope C4 works on something like this soon. It’s much needed with so many people switching to streaming services.

@@billprice6255 I’m not quite sure how they would develop it honestly. But…… and I must confess I’m not really that active in c4 programming as much anymore, if there is a specific RUclips tv mini driver that has use of the numeric keypad, I imagine in custom programming you could figure out a way to make it work like a macro. I’m not familiar with youtubetv. The reason why is can work with traditional cable and satellite service is the tuner is still using a numerical value based on your geographic location. If RUclipstv is just a bunch of channels without any type of traditional number I’m not sure there’s a way to make that work.

Appreciate you watching. I no longer do field work in my 9-5 but I still manage my own system. That bag and setup definitely served me well for a long time. Are you in the trades? What do you do? What brought you to my video?

@@QVisionGarage yes i do cableling and installations mostly access control and security systems

@@prbones2127 very cool. I think I mentioned it in the video at the time it was made I was specializing in low voltage lighting systems, lutron homeworks. Now I do all the backend database building and programming from a desk. All in all I think the field work helped me better understand what our field team needs in a comprehensive database for easier deployment at install.

@@QVisionGarage it's a great professional choice for me it's fun challenging and Innovative

As far as the backend of thing I believe it’s all Linux based but for programming the systems to work it’s just drag and drop connections. Beyond that I’m not 100 percent sure what you mean. The backend programming you’ll never do anything with.

@@QVisionGarage so u dont really use programaming language for control4 u just attaching things kind of?

@@roeanidjar2411 correct, there is logic based programming, variables, conditionals and such but you’re not writing code.

I believe you could all you would need to do is create it as a load and tie the integration ID to the driver.

@@QVisionGarage sorry actually meant to ask if the connection could be done with configurable keypads

@@craigmack7992you’ll have to forgive me as I actually mainly only work with lutron programming now, my c4 days are few and far between, I think what you’d have to do is create an advanced lighting scene and make the connection to the keypad with it. When you do it you would also hit the create default button in advance lighting scenes and that will make a toggle off.

@@QVisionGarage thank you for your kind response

@@craigmack7992 anytime brother, I appreciate you watching my videos. The last time I integrated lutron to c4 I believe that was the way I made the connections, by using advanced lighting scenes. If that didn’t work I can take a look at my files and see how I did it but I believe that’s how it works.

Depends on what side of the trade you get into. When I was doing low voltage field work, one company we did everything from hanging tvs, security cameras, building racks…. Another company I worked just in lutron lighting systems. Bottom line the tools likely won’t go to waste. Thanks for watching brother! Good luck!

You should also note that while I don’t know the circumstances of why your apprenticeship didn’t work out, it’s pretty standard for the old vets to shit on the apprentice, you’ll be digging, sweating and doing all the shit work for a while but the career does pay off. Don’t give up brother.

@@QVisionGarage The new place does mostly data, voice, fiber, splicing, structured cabling. Old place lied and said I'd be in the commercial hv field and then just stuck me in the back of the house doing inventory for their led biz. When I started asking if it would count toward my license or when I would start doing electrical (6 months in) they told me that I would likely never start training to be an apprentice and that the warehouse organizational roles is why they hired me...

@@christophermccartney7150 yea that’s fucked man. There will likely be some specialized tool you don’t have but like I said the other stuff won’t go to waste. Email me a few picture of your bag and I’ll shout you out in the channel. Qvisionentertainment@gmail.com

Thanks for watching, I currently don’t. The closest thing would be a video about setting up favorite channel icons, the process is very similar. I’ll see if I can put something together in the next few days tho.

Thanks for watching Joe! I’m glad you found it helpful and you’ve gained the confidence to try it yourself. I have a general mindset of if something’s already broken, can’t really break it more unless you really try. With what sound like a good foundation of soldering on the trains I’m sure you’ll be fine. If you’d like to send me an email with some progress photos I’ll throw them on the community section with a shoutout. Qvisionentertainment@gmail.com Good luck brother!

I believe it’s from a company called labor saving devices, but Jonard makes the same thing. If you search low voltage wall box template you’ll find it.

thank you

DeWalt compounding side cutters. I think there’s a new model. Overall they weren’t bad, I actually like my gearwrench ones better.

@@QVisionGarage I’m gonna look into them. I’m new to the trade. But our focus is security and fire. I’m doing some research on most common tools and some fundamental tips if i can find any. I appreciate your video.

@@cali_misfit1387 any time brother appreciate you watching. You wanna set yourself apart, learn how to troubleshoot thoroughly, become familiar with a multimeter, the products you install, normal voltage and resistance ranges. The trades aren’t about the tools in your belt, a good tech can do their work with cheap shit. It’s your knowledge and how you apply it that makes a tradesman. I’ve seen a lot of guys come through the low volt trades that just don’t care enough or take pride in their work. I hope you do well brother. Never stop learning.

@@cali_misfit1387 I’d honestly say before you dump your freedom eagles on top notch gear, get your basics, so many times I see guys carting nearly an entire shop of tools. I get being addicted to buying them and owning them, but big bucks aren’t always the answer. I’ve had high dollar gear that was complete shit and low dollar gear that I absolutely love. If memory serves correctly, security and fire focuses on mostly super high gauge thin wire, a good multi tool like the gerber gear mp600 or a sog or leatherman will be clutch. I never leave home without my gerber and it’s saved my ass more times than I can count.

@@QVisionGarage Yes sir thank you for the advice. Right now it’s a lil slow since i’m shadowing the tech. But so far i’ve learned some basics. But i look forward to learning more. Coming from a construction trade, i always ale sure my work is neat and clean. My customer service and interaction is always top notch. And i make sure i’m working efficiently.

That’s cause I am him. When I’m not acting, or writing for newsday I make RUclips videos on niche automation systems. Appreciate the watchtime brother. What else would you like to see on control4?

@@QVisionGarage Very Nice, I am new to Control4 very informational videos keep it up, knowledge is power Ray Romano you got the power LOL

Thank you brother! Glad you found them helpful.

Overall very good. It tends to be a specific use case that I reach for these but when I need them, they are handy. They definitely aren’t abused as much as my Milwaukee metric wrenches that aren’t ratcheting or flex head, but for the price even if I had to buy them twice it would have been worth the money.

Thanks for watching. The wire I used is only available to low voltage installation companies however any rca will do. If you wanted to get something of decent quality I would look into like an audioquest type rca cable.

Actually you need a cable with adequate (low) capacitance otherwise you'll screw high frequency response with mm cartridges. Usually turntable rca's have less than 100 pico farads per meter

At the time of recording this I was a tech for a large NY integrator, I’ve since moved to a desk position in design. How about you brother? What part of the world are you from?

Thanks for watching brother! And I appreciate the tip.