Office Closure
January 16, 2018 9:20am – We are planning to close our office at 12:00pm due to the inclement weather. We will be evaluating conditions for tomorrow and will post updates here as the conditions present themselves. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Update – 8:00pm – Due to road conditions and school... Read More
Old Sonos Drivers Stop Working Jan. 23
Control4 has announced that the old UPnP based Sonos driver will cease to work on January 23, 2018. The new, endorsed driver will have to be put into place to work at that point for integration with Control4 systems. Here is a abridged version of that announcement: In late January, Control4 systems that use the... Read More
Increase Your Home Value
How Smart Home Automation Can Increase Your Home’s Property Value This guest post comes to us from Maricel Tabalba, a freelance contributor for Credit.com who writes about personal finance for millennials. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago. From smart thermostats to automated lighting... Read More
Control4 Napster/Rhapsody Driver
On Monday, February 5, 2018, Napster will stop working on Control4 systems unless all of the following have occurred: The system is running OS 2.9.1 or later The latest Napster driver (v79) has been installed The Napster patch has been applied New Napster driver: Since Control4 introduced Rhapsody (now Napster) in 2008, Rhapsody/Napster has continued to... Read More
Harmony Link Discontinued
Logitech’s Harmony Link service is coming to an end on March 16, 2018. This will cause all Harmony Link devices to cease functioning. Understandably, this has upset users of the devices. Harmony Link is a cloud based service and this termination is one of the reasons that Network Solutions Automation believes in local control such... Read More
Wi-Fi Exploit (Updated)
October 16, 2017 – A new vulnerability in the modern Wi-Fi encryption protocol WPA2 has been found. This security vulnerability basically affects ALL Wi-Fi installations and implementations. The issue is with the WPA2 protocol itself. The announcement was just made this morning and some manufacturers have already release firmware updates. However, many routers and access... Read More
Smarthome Certification
The insurance industry has started giving additional discounts to smarthomes. In the past, an alarm certification showing that an alarm system was monitored was all that was needed to get a discount on your home insurance policy. Those discount rates have begun to shrink in the past few years. However, the industry is now beginning... Read More
SiriusXM Driver Now Available
SIRIUSXM IS NOW AVAILABLE We are pleased to announce that SiriusXM is now available as a built-in streaming service for systems running Control4 OS 2.10. The SiriusXM driver can be found within Composer Pro. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS How many streams can I play per SiriusXM account? A: SiriusXM permits only one stream per account. How many... Read More
Control4 OS2.10 Available
Control4 has released their newest major OS release – 2.10. This OS features many “under-the-hood” improvements as well as some new features for Control4 owners. Some of the highlights are outlined below. Please contact us at 256-467-6314 if you would like more information on these features or to schedule an upgrade. Enhanced Camera Views... Read More
4Sight Service Outage
The following is the announcement we received from Control4. Please note that the times are in Mountain Time zone so they are 1 hour earlier than our local time. –BEGIN On June 5, 2017 at 5:06 AM MT (UTC-6) there is an in-progress web services issue that is impacting the following services: Access Anywhere... Read More