Apr
17

Shop In-Wall Cable Management Kits

For Cleaner Looking Installs 

With the Sanus In-Wall TV Power and Cable Management Kit you can make every mounted TV look clean and professional. Extend the electrical power from an existing wall outlet to the dual-purpose enclosure that can be discreetly mounted behind the TV. The unit is pre-wired and ETL-listed and allows you to hide power and AV cables inside the wall giving customers a truly floating TV look.  

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Apr
16

Step Outside the Ordinary with Snap One

This spring, explore outstanding outdoor solutions that delight customers and help make your jobs easier. Unite outdoor audio and lighting with easy-to-install Episode Radiance audio solutions  or make entertainment shine in the sun with SunBrite TVs. Regardless of the outdoor space, the extensive lineup of Snap One outdoor solutions can help your clients enjoy the warm weather and assist in growing your business.  

Expand your customers network with Araknis access points allowing them to experience seamless browsing and streaming, regardless of whether they are inside or outside. Enjoying amazing audio doesn't have to be restricted to indoor spaces. Outdoor audio with Episode landscape speakers delivers full, robust sound while blending into the environment. Constructed with all-weather components, Episode landscape speakers deliver remarkable sound in every climate. Round out your outdoor projects and streamline your customers surveillance with Luma and its easy-to-install, high-quality solutions with multiple, attractive end-user features.

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Apr
15

Control4® X4 Early Access is Here

Get firsthand access to Control4's future with X4 early access. Explore our most advanced, intuitive, and powerful platform to date, designed to enhance every aspect of the smart living experience.  

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Apr
10

Deliver Whole Home Comfort

With 4th Gen Nest Thermostats 

With Nest's latest generation smart thermostat, it is easy to save energy and money. The system learns your customers' schedules and preferences to keep the house comfortable. With the ability to add Temperature Sensors, you can help your users find an ideal temperature balance for the entire home. Connect the thermostats and the sensors to the Google Home app for easy end-user control right from their smartphones.

The standard programable Wi-Fi thermostat can be controlled from anywhere with the Google Home app as well as quick scheduling to help users maximize their energy usage and save money when possible.

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Apr
10

Smart and Secure Entry Control

Shop DoorBird IP Video Intercoms

The new DoorBird IP Video Intercoms deliver cutting-edge security, seamless integration, and unmatched convenience for commercial and residential applications. Installation is quick and adaptable with PoE or Wi-Fi support, ensuring effortless synchronization with existing security and automation systems. 

Built for advanced surveillance and access control, all models feature a 180� ultra-wide-angle HDTV camera, infrared night vision, and a 4D motion sensor adjustable up to 6m. Secure app-controlled access, configurable action schedules, and an automatic door buzzer make it ideal for office buildings, medical facilities, and multi-tenant properties. Real-time video and two-way audio calling allow users to interact with visitors via smartphones, tablets, IP, and landline phones (SIP), while Smart Transmission Mode (STM) optimizes performance on mobile devices. A Control4 driver is available, ensuring seamless integration with your Control4 smart home system. With call buttons, free visitor history storage, and optional video recording, the new DoorBird IP Video Intercoms redefine entry management with smart, scalable security solutions.

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Apr
09

Updated Process to Change the Dealer of Record

We are rolling out some changes to streamline and secure the process to change the dealer-of-record to ensure an efficient, informed, and secure procedure for migrating customer accounts to a different integrator. These changes:

  • Establish necessary safeguards and limit unauthorized access
  • Ensure that the Customer always has custody of their own system
  • Improve data security for Customer systems
  • Ensure that we are in compliance with today’s changes privacy laws going into effect around the globe

For information on changing the dealer of record for a Control4 Customer, check out this article in the KnowledgeBase: https://ctrl4.co/change-dealer-of-record

As before, the OvrC Customer Account Migration is done onsite at the customer’s location using the OvrC Pro Hub, but will now enjoy a more comprehensive transfer. The migration will now transfer:

  • The entire Customer Site to your OvrC Account, along with account and user permissions to access it
  • All claimed devices (including those that are disconnected), all system and device notes, activity logs, and all site-wide configurations, including Wi-Fi Management, MolP, and Luma
  • All Users created for OvrC Connect and Luma View

Transparent communication of the completed customer migration will be sent to all parties involved, including the previous dealer-of-record.

The process for Araknis/Binary/Clare/Episode/Luma/OvrC/Sunbrite/Triad/Wattbox account transfers through OvrC is the same process you have been using, but now improved to transfer the entire Customer Site and not just the Device List.

The Customer:

  • Finds a new Integrator, using our Customer Advocacy Team (866.424.4489) as needed

The Integrator executes a Customer Account Migration:

  • Create a new Customer Site in OvrC
  • Click DEVICE LIST and then ADD NEW DEVICE
  • Add the OvrC Pro Hub – already claimed to the dealership – into the network
  • Goes to the Customer’s home or business
  • Connects that OvrC Pro Hub to the network
  • In the PRO TOOLS click BEGIN SYSTEM TAKEOVER
  • Execute a NETWORK SCAN and verify the transfer
  • Update the OvrC Pro Agent in the SITE SETTINGS to be the Customer’s Araknis Router or OvrC Pro Hub
  • Execute one more Execute a NETWORK SCAN
  • Delete the OvrC Pro Hub from the Device List, disconnect it from the network, and take it with you for the next job
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Apr
09

New OvrC Categories Streamline Usability

New OvrC Categories Streamline Usability

This OvrC update will fundamentally change how you use OvrC, making you faster and more efficient device and system configuration, troubleshooting, and device management. These improvements will come about by changing your initial destination within OvrC from the DEVICE LIST to the CATEGORIES PAGE.

Once exclusive to just Control & Automation, Categories is now the consolidated home for the Site Settings, Pro Tools, OvrC Pro Settings, as well as device and sub-system configuration and management. This significant navigational update comes with a toggle button, allowing users to quickly switch between the old and new views. New OvrC Categories will consolidate Partner Tools:

OvrC Categories
  • Control & Automation: Control4 controller registration, customer handoff, project management settings and tools, invite to Connect, and Routine’s configuration
  • Entertainment: site and device configuration options for MoIP, and will also soon house configuration options for Ryff and Episode Business Music Service (both coming soon) ​
  • Networking Configuration: device configuration options for networking devices, plus the new home for Wi-Fi Management that was previously located in Site Settings
  • Power: device configuration options for Wattbox products
  • Remote Management: device configuration options for OvrC Pro devices, plus the new home for the OvrC Pro settings and the Pro Tools
  • Surveillance: site and device configuration options for Luma products, including Luma Insights
  • Discovered:  device configuration options for third-party devices that are discovered by the OvrC Pro agent

New Feature for Control4 Projects

Restore Control4 Project

When the need arises due to a corrupt project, failed controller, or a controller update, OvrC now allows you to load a cloud-backup of the project file onto the primary controller – from anywhere!​

A new REPORTS Page has been added to the Left Navigation Menu in OvrC, and provides a customizable and downloadable dashboard overview of your OvrC-registered Control4 Customer systems and accounts. If are a Control4 Dealer and do not see REPORTS in the OvrC menu, make sure that you have linked your Control4 Account to OvrC.

Subscriptions

provides a dashboard view for your Control4 Customer’s subscription plans, including Control4 Connect, Assist, and Assist Premium. The page includes filters for Plan, Month, and Year at the top of the page, metrics and Month-over-Month (MoM) trends, and upcoming subscription renewals.

Control4 Account Dashboard

helps identify which of your customers are ready for a Control4 OS update, a hardware upgrade, when their service subscriptions are about to expire (4Sight or Connect) or if their controller potentially needs to be restarted, based on the last time it checked in.

  • Click Download CSV to save a copy of the report as currently shown.
  • Click the Customize button to select the most relevant content for your company, or the task at hand.
  • Columns can be dragged, allowing you to customize the order and create the most efficient view for you.
Control4 Account Dashboard

Forge Your Own Personalized Device List

  • Customize a Device List that provides the data you need, presented the way you like it
  • Adjust your view with DENSITY to squeeze in more lines, arranged or provide more content per line
  • CUSTOMIZE your view by selecting which data-columns to include, arranged to the match your priorities, and resized as you see fit
  • STICKY GRID customizations (density, included columns, ordering, sorting) are saved and will track across all clients and logins, even across different devices

New Smart and Sticky Features  

  • Enjoy more viewable results as the INTELLIGENT SCROLLING slides the menu and header up and out of the way  
  • STICKY SCROLLING saves current location in the list, allowing you to resume scrolling from your last location, even after visiting a device page or a different customer    
  • STICKY SEARCH will apply the search filter to all Sites allowing you to continue a specific device or brand search across all customers  

OvrC App update v7.6.1

This update introduces MATTER as a discovery protocol to be used during Network Scansin order to provide more correct and complete device information.    

  • is now supported as a discovery protocol for better device identification

Automatic Removal of Locally Administered Address (LAA) devices:  

  • LAA devices (typically mobile devices and tablets) override their burnt in MAC for a locally assigned MAC that changes once a week to prevent tracking and help protect customer privacy
  • OvrC will keep your Device List free from clutter by automatically removing any LAA devices after 7 days if they have not been renamed or had notes added
  • Network scans will now complete faster, and scrolling through the Device List will be much easier  
  • This feature went live a few weeks ago, scrubbing every LAA device that is 7 days or older, resulting in a reduced device-count
  • Going forward, a 7-day countdown till be added to each LAA-identified device found during a network scan.  
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Apr
09

Perfected Performance for AV Needs

AV integrators seeking reliable, cost-effective distribution solutions will love AVARRO�s newest offerings available on Snap One. Designed to meet industry standards for quality and reliability, AVARRO's cutting-edge products elevate every installation. From pro signage displays, racks, and mounts to HDMI switches, extenders, and more, AVARRO delivers premium AV solutions built for performance and value.

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Apr
08

New Firmware for ClareVision Cameras?

A new firmware update has been released for ClareVision Performance (V100) and Color at Night (V300) Series cameras. This update enables OvrC support, adds vehicle detection capabilities, plus includes important bug fixes, optimizations, and backend security enhancements.? 

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New Features: 

  • OvrC-enabled?to see online/offline status of cameras, or remotely reboot a camera 
  • AI-enabled vehicle detection? 

Bug Fixes and Optimizations:

  • Added a lockout feature after five failed login attempts 
  • Added exposure settings optimization when viewing live and recorded video 
  • Added device optimizations and security improvements 

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Apr
03

Media Distribution Made Easy

Shop the Latest from AVPro

AVPro's latest offerings help integrators create a modern viewing experience for homes and businesses.  

Whether you are setting up a home cinema, conference room, or installing multiple displays, the Long Distance 4K HDMI Extender allows you to send the necessary signals up to 150 meters with exceptional quality. Not only will this future proof your installs, but it also allows you to retrofit existing systems with 4K Downscaling to 1080p, helping save money by keeping existing displays.  

The Multi-viewer allows you to bring the sports bar experience home. With TVs now pushing 100 inches, you can maximize the viewer experience by streaming four sources displayed simultaneously on a single screen. Don't just limit this to entertainment installs, the same quad display would be ideal for security jobs where viewing multiple cameras is a necessity.  

Integrators can count on AVPro Edge for dependable, innovative products, and services to help their customers AV needs. 

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