

That might make you queasy-letting some dude across town/state/country muck around in your system as he sits in his underwear and works on his third 5-hour Energy drink of the day. With a 4Sight subscription, you can give your installer remote access to your system. Installers use a program called Composer Pro to set up, configure, and do just about everything else to get a Control4 system running-and keep it running if there are any problems that crop up or changes that need to be made. Control4 says this is a known Apple issue, which essentially means it’s probably not going to be fixed soon. At other times, the Control4 app needs to be restarted, and occasionally the iPod/iPad will ask to be re-authenticated before the system will accept commands from it. This causes me to press the volume-up button too many times until it suddenly catches up and blasts me out of the room. A more frustrating issue is that the iPod touch and iPad (in my system, at least) are sometimes a little sluggish to respond. That’s not a big deal, but it’s something to be aware of. As a result, they have a similar but not quite identical look. First, since Apple doesn’t let you use Flash within the iOS, Control4 had to build these GUIs from scratch. There are a couple of important issues I’ve noticed using the Apple devices versus Control4’s remotes and touchscreens.
