One thing worth mentioning and referred to earlier by Ruud:
It is worthwhile NOT turning Vivaldi off. Two reasons.
Leaving Vivaldi powered ( including sleep mode) maintains operational temperature allowing immediate use without having to await temperature stabilisation. How long this takes will party depend upon the ambient temperature. Vivaldi clock will indicate when the temperature has been reached by displaying a thermometer icon. In my case this will usually be shown at around 20 minutes after switch on from cold.
Unlike other current dCS units and due to it being the earliest design of the range, Vivaldi has a volatile memory which is powered by battery. This memory holds not only your optional preferences but essential other information such as electronic serial numbers ( which enables handshakes between the units and network board via RS232) but things like wordclock calibration. The battery ( batteries in a stack) is consumed whilst the unit is off. Replacing the battery once this is exhausted is not simply a case of slotting in a couple of AAs. It is a specialised unit and requires factory/distributor fitting particularly as a power supply needs rigging so that the memory remains powered during the battery exchange. Of course some with relevant engineering experience may be able to do this but I suspect that most customers will not.
Note though, for kicks I tested the same prompt with two other AI engines, all of them have so far given different results So, youâll like need to fiddle around with the script to get the right one that works.
This is pretty much exactly how Mosaic Control works; thereâs a continuous streaming update from the Upsampler network board to Mosaic to reflect the playback status. WIreShark will show exactly how it works for anyone who wants to write one for UC RC3. That saidâŚ
Sorry to say it doesnât sound too promising. I hope your investment in time and effort into getting UC R3 to work doesnât go to waste (when) if they go belly-up! I suppose this is the very reason why folks who want automation often resort to paid services from the likes of C4 etc.
I know what you mean and, keeping in mind that this is a third generation platform with very little to show for (still running beta software, 20-30 integration, no useable IR database etc), there is not much to get excited about. But Harmony is no more - I donât know if you have seen that Logi has just withdrawn support for all early non-hub remote controls. Which will still work going forward but reprogramming them will no longer be possible. How long until the hub remotes will be dropped as well? And there is nothing else on the market. Sofabaton is a poor excuse for a universal remote. Pronto etc are long gone.
Yes, you do have the choice to pay C4 prices. But, at least on paper, UC looks good. Not only the sleek hardware, aluminium body, OLED screen etc but, more important than their own platform, the integration with HA. In theory this opens endless possibilities. In practice much will depend on software development. And in order to get developers to work on it, you need adoption. I invested not only for what I am getting today, but for supporting this development.
I accept that it will never be as stable or reliable as a commercial solution costing thousands of pounds. But it is an open source alternative to a big tech company and I like open source. I might eventually give up on it and get the C4 gang in (I very nearly did once) and itâs not even about the price. I like the idea of open source, Github developers, I like the idea of Linux as an alternative to the two dominant commercial OS on the market, I would love to see a competitive mobile phone platform which is neither iOS nor Android etc. I donât like the idea of big tech having full control to dictate policy, to monetise my life and charge me extortionate prices. I like the little tech and the little tech people.
So I will do my best to stick with it - my Harmony 2400 Pro still works and, frankly, it still works well for most of my hardware if one does not need IP control. This last Harmony with the PoE hub really was their swan song. The 2400 hub is a lot more powerful, responsive and stable than anything they had released before. Pity about the remote itself which was never upgraded to a decent standard - plastic, a low resolution screen etc.
Interesting, thanks for the info Pete, I did not know any of this. Still, I would like to be able to control the stack with my shiny new remote control regardless of whether I will actually do it or not. I am a man after all!
Is it open source though?? UC just seems to have a set of public APIs, they havenât open sourced anything, have they?
In my, admittedly very very brief look at UC, I think theyâd struggle in the long run. Philipsâ Pronto Division was very successful with a large set of developers, a wide ecosystem, and even OEM Sales to vendors (like dCS), and yet they couldnât make the business case fly.
Granted UC seems to be a very small team, but if I was them, hardware aside, Iâd have built the front-end and API framework on top of Android - which is completely open-source and license-free for manufacturers - rather than building their own OS; for which the development/ maintenance costs is going to be a major drag for them.
So, youâll like need to fiddle around with the script to get the right one that works.
