What streaming server do you use if any?, wondering how it controls navigation on android tv devices, this ended up being the deal breaker for the RTI remotes for me...
Only interested in mapping the nav controls to the d pad, not launching an android app to do this...
I have NVIDIA Shields and Ruku. They are IP controlled by Control4 in my case. The Shield has C4 support built in. The Roku has good support for deep linking with Josh and good C4 support.
For the AVA remote you can check compatibility:
I'm not selling you or pushing you on this remote. I don't sell it and have no relationship with the company whatsoever. Just making folks aware it exists.
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Awesome! Thanks so much for posting Mike. Great to have confirmation from someone with so much experience on the subject.
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The X1S is on sale again today for $170. Mine will be here tomorrow.
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Just received mine today. Likely won’t be able to set it up until the weekend…
I purchased an X1 when it was first announced on Kickstarter. I have a Harmony Ultimate but when they announced the end of the Harmony line I figured it would stop working or no longer be viable at some point.
When I finally received the X1, the app was so horrendous and bug ridden that I pretty much wrote it off after a while. Then we moved, and I have yet to install the AV system I brought from our previous house.
Do you have any idea whether your driver will work with the original X1?
It won't, x1s only
I received my X1S and started adding devices to it.
My projector, though, will not turn on or off.
It is a Formovie Theater and is controlled via bluetooth.
The X1s can learn bluetooth, and I taught it the power command with the original remote, but it still will not control it.
Need to try a few other things though.
This was one of the reasons that I got the X1s... oh well.
I saw other posts in reddit that said the same thing, so I might write formovie and see what they say, or sofabaton (stupid name).
Another +1 for Control4. Their AV setup and integrations just work. It's also easy enough to get basic control to/from Hubitat. There are commercial drivers to get from Hubitat and Home Assistant to C4. And HA driver to get from C4 to HA. So with a bit of effort it is pretty straightforward to build Hubitat control of some C4 AV.
Their remotes are also pretty good. I'm one of the people who likes number buttons. The older remotes are among the best laid out keypads. The newer remotes are good for voice control of Apple and Xfinity.
C4 isn't cheap. But there's plenty of used equipment on the market and online programming is reasonably priced. After that it's easy to do your own programming of the system.
I'm always surprised the AV remote market doesn't have great products that sell well. Most of the equipment is IP controllable these days and there are white label remotes available now - see: https://www.sanytron.com
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Those are very good looking /aesthetically pleasing devices...
Regarding the Control4-- My understanding is that it's a closed system, and you will pay ($$$) for any and every modification needed. That includes the service charge in addition to the specific change. Is this the case?
There are online programmers that are reasonably cost effective. Once devices are added to the system you can manage and program them. It's not low cost, but it is not outrageous. They've bumped up the annual fee to $250 for new customers, there is a new version of their OS coming out this year. When people see huge $ costs for C4 installation that's going to be a lot of AV, lighting, and design/installation. If you just have a TV, receiver, and streaming box that's going to be a low complexity, lower cost install.
I shared some of this topic w/my wife. Her response was pretty good:
"If you're having that much trouble controlling the TV I'm going to start looking into which care home to commit you to."
I backed out of the room quietly... 
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Why do you need a system to turn the lights on and off?
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I think we all know the rule. If she doesn't bring it up, you don't bring it up.
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Interesting that @danabw showed in up this thread after causing me to spend $25 a couple of weeks ago for a decoy owl. It seems to be working by the way!
Anyway, I got the remote set up this morning with no issues running all the previous devices that I had on my old U1, and it's working great. This afternoon I got Mike's driver installed and tried to configure an IP device on the X1S but I ran into some issues.
I don't know if this is a version difference between Android and iOS (I'm running Android) but I'm getting an error message "Body data error - body should be in JSON format" trying to save the IP command. I filled in the URL as instructed, used the PUT method and application/json connect type. Nothing in Headers and only the word red (with no quotes) in Body. After getting the error I messed around with quotes and colons and braces but always got the same error. I'm currently reading up on JSON on Wikipedia...
Yay hobbies!
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Interesting, I did develop the driver using the SofaBaton app on and iPhone
Apparently I didn't play with enough combinations before. In the body field I input
{"parse":"red"}
and I'm able to save it. Pressing that button on the remote gives me
unknown body:"{\"parse\":\"red\"}"
in the logs. So I think I should be able to tease the "red" (or whatever I put in that position) out of there and run the switch logic on that.
Does the remote work with the decoy owl? That's what matters.
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That'll be another thread to debate the zigbee owl head from aliexpress vs. the zwave owl head from Zooz.
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