Control4 underwhelming

[valent]

I saw my first Control4 show room IRL, and it was really underwhelming, even my half-broken LinuxMCE system with only two zwave plugs seams more feature rich than full Control4 system. And prices are also pretty steep. One dimmer switch costs more than 150$ !!! One ZWave switch cost me 50€.

I need to complete my LinuxMCE system asap so that I can demo it to guys who install/sell Control4, just seeing their saws drop will be priceless

Congrats to all devels past and present and also to Pluto guys, only after seeing Control4 I see how LinuxMCE is much better when compared with it

Cheers,
Valent.

[totallymaxed]

I saw my first Control4 show room IRL, and it was really underwhelming, even my half-broken LinuxMCE system with only two zwave plugs seams more feature rich than full Control4 system. And prices are also pretty steep. One dimmer switch costs more than 150$ !!! One ZWave switch cost me 50€.

I need to complete my LinuxMCE system asap so that I can demo it to guys who install/sell Control4, just seeing their saws drop will be priceless

Cheers,
Valent.

We regularly come up against Control4 here and generally their installers are blown away by what we can do... it would take them an enormous amount of custom programming to achieve the same config/features.

All the best


Andrew

[valent]

As you Andrew have lots of installation experience could you share some of specific things that lmce does easier/better than Control4?

[totallymaxed]

As you Andrew have lots of installation experience could you share some of specific things that LinuxMCE does easier/better than Control4?

Put simply its the amazing level of functionality you get automatically just by describing room type, users, lights, TV's, Amplifiers etc and their relationship to each other. All of that is missing from Control-4 (and all other HA Systems too) as everything has to be programmed in using 'dumb' scripts. Then on top of that you have the range of functionality that is built into LinuxMCE that with Control-4 you would need to 'bolt on' a 3rd party product to deliver - media streaming, TV, Audio zones, VOIP Telephony etc etc.

All the best


Andrew

[valent]

Andrew,
got it, you explained it really clearly.

Thanks,
Valent.