Restricting communications via IP without license

MLaletas

Sooo I hear Cr$ptron will be instituting a new rule sometime soon that they will the sever an IP connection to particular third party Lighting manufacturer without a license. Man thats going to cause a roar, thoughts? Personally I think thats just messed up, you are no longer a control system platform youve transformed yourself to an all in one solution. Being experience by far and large in AMX I am kind of hoping it blows up it their face...

[Deleted User]

That is an interesting move: http://bit.do/dfXvt

pdabrowski

What lighting systems are they referring to exactly?

C-bus?
Hue?
Lutron?
Dynalite?

MLaletas

They did not specify, I gotta assume lutron has got to be the biggest one, maybe vantage, hue, etc...

shr00m-dew

Trying to pay off the Lutron Settlement?

vining

Wow $500 for a key just for any non Crestron lighting system. I guess they're trying to force future installs to use their own products?

zack.boyd

I happened to be at their office when this went out. The engineers I was with pretty much said 'Yeah... we didn't exactly agree but it was way above our pay grades'. I enjoyed being a smug AMX fan-boy. (they love me there!)*dripping with sarcasm*

pdabrowski

vining wrote: »

Wow $500 for a key just for any non ******** lighting system. I guess they're trying to force future installs to use their own products?

But the question is how are they going to enforce this? Sniffing TCP/IP packets and blocking ones that match pre-defined patterns or not allowing certain modules to work?

zack.boyd

pdabrowski wrote: »

But the question is how are they going to enforce this? Sniffing TCP/IP packets and blocking ones that match pre-defined patterns or not allowing certain modules to work?

I was told they're dissallowing connections to a range of MAC addresses. They acknowledged there were many work-arounds;)