RyanE

If just using EA1s for zigbee, then I would recommend just using the (less expensive) CA1 controller.

Just to clarify - 20 EA1's is INSANE in my opinion.
One in a distributed system, MAYBE 2 for 20 TVs, then add one to main viewing area, one in a dedicated guest room, maybe one in the master.....
Know that in my house OSD gets a fair amount of use, and for 10 TVs I'm still only using 3 OSD devices, basically as above - one distributed, then one each for two dedicated areas to watch TV (Family room and Theatre)
 
I DO however want to note one important thing here, and that is ZIGBEE. If your house has 20 TVs I assume it's a good size - in which case there is likely a need to have a few zigbee meshes to make zigbee devices work properly (either because you have full c4 lighting and a lot of them - or you don't have any or very little an you need the coverage).
If THAT is the reason to add more EA1's locally, then there's nothing wrong at all there. Add that it will depend on construction as well - wood build houses with drywall need a lot less than mortar and brick or cement/cementblock .
So there may be MORE to the 20 EA1 story than just OSD (though 20 is still a crazy amount)

this can be done fairly lightly as well. 
I would just create a couple lines of code. 
for the front door
when the front door opens
       if night time
           turn on the light
when it closes
          start a timer
when timer expires
     if after 1030pm
             turn off light.
 
 
as for the back yard
  schedule event happens at 1030
       if the backyard is off
           turn off the light
when back yard turns off
        if after 1030 pm
                 start timer
 
when timer expires
         if back yard is off
               turn off light
 
We also have a training course for composer home edition. In this course, we will be using the same Composer Home software available to you as the end-user. We will go through real-life situations to automate your home, troubleshoot your system, and educate you about the tools you have as a consumer.  We hope this course will help to take full advantage of your investment in Control4. You can see our first video here for free on youtube.com . You can sign up here on our Pateron Site. We will be offering a lot of benefits for our supporters including discounts on all walts.com products, private discord channel, free email support, and much more.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.   

The usual answers to these are:
1) There are a lot of dealers on these forums that will make changes for homeowners who have equipment installed (or will install the equipment themselves).  Most have pretty good reputations for following up within a reasonable time, and charging reasonable rates.
2) You can purchase ComposerHE (Homeowner's Edition) to make many programming changes.  It does nearly everything that ComposerPro will do, with the exceptions of: you can't add new device drivers, you can't make bindings between device drivers, and and a handful of other things that are rarely used.  If an online dealer does those things for you, ComposerHE can do the rest.
RyanE

The usual answers to these are:
1) There are a lot of dealers on these forums that will make changes for homeowners who have equipment installed (or will install the equipment themselves).  Most have pretty good reputations for following up within a reasonable time, and charging reasonable rates.
2) You can purchase ComposerHE (Homeowner's Edition) to make many programming changes.  It does nearly everything that ComposerPro will do, with the exceptions of: you can't add new device drivers, you can't make bindings between device drivers, and and a handful of other things that are rarely used.  If an online dealer does those things for you, ComposerHE can do the rest.
RyanE

We have a training course for composer home edition. In this course, we will be using the same Composer Home software available to you as the end-user. We will go through real-life situations to automate your home, troubleshoot your system, and educate you about the tools you have as a consumer.  We hope this course will help to take full advantage of your investment in Control4. You can see our first video here for free on youtube.com . You can sign up here on our Pateron Site. We will be offering a lot of benefits for our supporters including discounts on all walts.com products, private discord channel, free email support, and much more.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.   

The usual answers to these are:
1) There are a lot of dealers on these forums that will make changes for homeowners who have equipment installed (or will install the equipment themselves).  Most have pretty good reputations for following up within a reasonable time, and charging reasonable rates.
2) You can purchase ComposerHE (Homeowner's Edition) to make many programming changes.  It does nearly everything that ComposerPro will do, with the exceptions of: you can't add new device drivers, you can't make bindings between device drivers, and and a handful of other things that are rarely used.  If an online dealer does those things for you, ComposerHE can do the rest.
RyanE

The usual answers to these are:
1) There are a lot of dealers on these forums that will make changes for homeowners who have equipment installed (or will install the equipment themselves).  Most have pretty good reputations for following up within a reasonable time, and charging reasonable rates.
2) You can purchase ComposerHE (Homeowner's Edition) to make many programming changes.  It does nearly everything that ComposerPro will do, with the exceptions of: you can't add new device drivers, you can't make bindings between device drivers, and and a handful of other things that are rarely used.  If an online dealer does those things for you, ComposerHE can do the rest.
RyanE

We've been hardwiring door openers to either a Z2io or directly to the processor (preferred) for years and never had a problem.  We have tons of sites out there with a very clean solution.  I will try to visit some of these sites next week and show you some very good options.  
 
 

The “hot wire” way has been the official way to do it for a very long time and is as clean as any thing else. This is standard across multiple platforms. Dealers relying on Cloud or plug and play access have been doing it wrong. 

Not only does the install base for C4 of iPhone vs Android likely lean toward Apple, it becomes really damning for general population of smartwatches: 
2021 Market Share:
Apple: 33.5%
Huawei: 8.4%
Samsung: 8%
iMoo: 5.1%
Fitbit: 4.2%
Other: 40.8%
...with the 40.8% being mostly glorified fitness trackers and not true Android watches

Agree for the most part with what you say, but this isn't really v1 as there was a Watch app under OS2 but it was buggy and it wasn't supported under OS3. So this is like a reboot of a C4 Watch app.

Somebody's got to pay for it.
1. just those who use it - 4sight
2. everybody - markup the products and figure 10 years of developement/server costs per user
3. sell everybodys data, the popular choice of many IoT companies
If it's "free", "included" then everybody pays.
(History lesson, there was a time when these and more were all added licenses. Processors were cheaper. Intercom, Phone, 4Sight, Major Upgrades were all add on license fees. For example: $500 for intercom, $100 per phone for the app.)
 

LOL.  I assume you're talking about Control4.
Control4 *proposed* their large network extensions to Zigbee (which are necessary for the large Zigbee networks in Control4 installations to not get bogged down with excessive messaging) to the Zigbee board, to become part of the standard.  It could have been part of the HA standard (which is only one of many Zigbee standards, most of which are not compatible with each other, due to varying security requirements, etc)...
It was sadly not accepted.
RyanE

fair, can we backport that to 260's

You can on the Neeo remote.
RyanE
 

Probably the lowest maintenance setup I could think of if the local network is rock-solid:
-C4 controllers
-C4 zigbee lighting
-C4 touchscreens
-Triad amps and matrix switches
-C4 chime
-IP Cameras with certified or C4-developed driver
 

Youtube app IS NOT YoutubeTV app, maybe that is where some confusion comes from here.
As I said, the three you mentioned are apps that were indeed already supported before, but Samsung TVs have been very limited in what mini-app driver (calls) they supported. Since the 2021 models, there is at least the ability to get more (most/all?) to work, albeit with some extra work and caveats (user not deleting the apps from the homescreen)

OK, it looks like it's 2021 and later Samsung TVs that can start mini apps that have been installed and added to the home screen.
There is a Control4 KB article about it (probably only available to dealers): 
https://tech.control4.com/s/article/Samsung-TV-2021-Universal-Mini-Driver-Support
I don't think there's any difference between the Frame and other Samsung TVs as far as their protocol, so I assume it would work the same for the Frame TV (2021 and later).
RyanE
 

Merry Christmas to all!

This can be set in the programming options for the remote.  
In Composer, System Design->Neeo->Settings Tab->Popup Options->Confirm Room Off.

Sounds like RMA time to me.
RyanE

Indeed great bunch we have here! Happy Holidays all....

Merry Christmas and Ditto!!!!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & Happy New Year to this great bunch of likeminded folks.  I love this forum and am grateful for all of you.