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Two things occur with this time of year. Very cold weather and visiting family for the holidays. What if your HVAC breaks down while you are traveling? You don’t want your pipes to burst do you. Well you can setup an alert telling you if your room temperature has dropped below a level and tell you exactly what level it’s at. This alert can be sent via email or text. Then you can call your hvac company to go to your house and see what is wrong. If you have a control4 compatible lock and alarm you can make it real easy to let them in while you are away, but that’s another thread.

Click the read more button below to find out how.

Well Christmas is right around the corner! So while decorating and getting ready for the big day try this bit of holiday programming.

Much like other hardware announcements made recently, this is a replacement for the v1 Media Player. However, it does not include Blu-ray .iso file support, DVD menu structure support, or….  well, what does it do differently?

Ever get confused by the number of software updates Control4 has put out over the years? Wondering if that SR-250 you’re eyeing will work with your system? Wondering what you’ll lose support for by upgrading? With help from the Control4 New Zealand distributor (Thanks SAM!), we are proud to offer the Control4 Product Support Matrix PDF file. It covers the “milestone” releases, and major equipment (controllers, remotes, etc) that would be affected as such. The two-page PDF download is available after the break.

Not content with the other hardware announcements today, and leaving us wondering what’s left to see at CEDIA this year, Control4 has rolled out the announcment for the HC200B. It’s the successor to the HC-200, but with the key improvement being processor power. Click the read link for more details.

Depending on the size of your project, you may have heard from the forums that you need all the processing power you can get. Dedicated controllers for director or navigator are often recommended, and so is the powerful HC-1000. But what if you haven’t bought into Control4 yet and are concerned about performance in your small project with 2.0? Or what if you have one controller already and you’re looking to expand, yet dreading the upgrade to 2.0 when you buy the new controller? Don’t worry, your hardware upgrade has arrived.