ajd123 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Is there any way to manually reboot a controller (specifically EA5) without physically power cycling it? A computer has a "power down" or "restart" feature. Is there a similar feature for Control4 controllers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Not natively for end user use. There have been some reboot drivers (no clue if they still work) around. Control4 does have a 'director reboot' option, which is essentially a software reboot. Most accessible way for the end user to do that would be via OVRC with a reboot setup by the associated dealer. Assuming you have an EA, CA or CORE controller, OVRC can be done as they have the hub software built in (so no hard need to have a full Araknis network) - even if you're on legacy 4Sight/registration (of course new systems -at least in the US- by default will have OVRC as the registration goes through there regardless) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 There is a driver that lets you reboot the controller from Composer. Back in the day you could also ssh into the controller and reboot in the same way that you would with any Linux device - enter a reboot or halt command at the CLI. But you can't do that anymore unless you know the password. The root password used to be the same for all users, but that changed with OS3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajd123 Posted August 21 Author Share Posted August 21 17 minutes ago, zaphod said: There is a driver that lets you reboot the controller from Composer. Back in the day you could also ssh into the controller and reboot in the same way that you would with any Linux device - enter a reboot or halt command at the CLI. But you can't do that anymore unless you know the password. The root password used to be the same for all users, but that changed with OS3. Do you have a link to this driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Reboot drivers are no longer supported RyanE and Andrew luecke 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew luecke Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 As per @msgreenf the reboot driver simply ran a reboot command on the controller. This is now blocked on the new OSs (same as the old ping command). That's not a bad thing either as commands often are slow to run and stall every driver. So particularly with the ping driver, it might lead to a few second of delays every time the command ran (so if you tried to turn on the TV during that period, or change a channel, it might take 4s). Also, it should improve security. RyanE and alanchow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 3 minutes ago, Andrew luecke said: As per @msgreenf the reboot driver simply ran a reboot command on the controller. This is now blocked on the new OSs (same as the old ping command). That's not a bad thing either as commands often are slow to run and stall every driver. So particularly with the ping driver, it might lead to a few second of delays every time the command ran (so if you tried to turn on the TV during that period, or change a channel, it might take 4s). Also, it should improve security. There is a new ping command though (as far as I know) and a couple of drivers that use this without the “old” issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 3 hours ago, msgreenf said: Reboot drivers are no longer supported I find this very interesting as I know that the theory is that these don’t work at all anymore. I have 4 or 5 reboot drivers (as part of other drivers in most cases - and all from reputable driver developers) and 2 of them still work - I have no idea why! But I do still use them from time to time… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew luecke Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 10 minutes ago, South Africa C4 user said: There is a new ping command though (as far as I know) and a couple of drivers that use this without the “old” issues. Yep. That's correct. We also have the Internet rebooter driver which runs a test using normal network. An official way to do ping was only added in late os3. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 6 hours ago, ajd123 said: Do you have a link to this driver? Use at your own risk and this may not work anymore, but here is one that was posted on these forums four years ago, not sure if this is the HouseLogix one or a different one The HouseLogix one still works on my system but I am running OS3.1.3. Control4Savant 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew luecke Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Actually.. Actually it does still seem to work.. they probably use a processor command instead of io.popen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TundraSonic Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Our EA-5 has rebooted every Sunday morning at 3a for the past 3+ years. For better or worse this fixed a number of anomalies we were experiencing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 2 minutes ago, TundraSonic said: Our EA-5 has rebooted every Sunday morning at 3a for the past 3+ years. For better or worse this fixed a number of anomalies we were experiencing. for worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 3 hours ago, TundraSonic said: Our EA-5 has rebooted every Sunday morning at 3a for the past 3+ years. For better or worse this fixed a number of anomalies we were experiencing. In the computer world I heard these called "therapeutic reboots" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TundraSonic Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 17 hours ago, msgreenf said: for worse Agree, but such is life when you have to depend on integrators because stuff is walled off from owners. 14 hours ago, zaphod said: In the computer world I heard these called "therapeutic reboots" And sadly beneficial sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olichops Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 https://bnet4solutions.com/ free driver for reboot on C4 works great. Also has Pentair intergation that is better than OEM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 20 hours ago, Olichops said: https://bnet4solutions.com/ free driver for reboot on C4 works great. Also has Pentair intergation that is better than OEM BNet solutions has a lot of really good drivers. Plus 1 for their Pentair driver (IntelliTouch and EasyTouch not currently IntelliCentre). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLite Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 On 8/27/2024 at 4:14 PM, Olichops said: https://bnet4solutions.com/ free driver for reboot on C4 works great. Also has Pentair intergation that is better than OEM I saw that and was intrigued. Does their reboot driver still work on the newer C4 OS versions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olichops Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Yes it still work on the latest C4 OS DLite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake0508 Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 I set up a stand alone smart plug to power it down and cycle it. I know you don’t want to power it down completely but I had it do it at 3am once a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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