ScottGA Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Has anybody created/used fake lights to track and toggle modes? What I am wondering is if I can ask my dealer to setup a room maybe called "Modes" and create on/off lights in that room that would correspond with certain modes we use (ex. Vacation, Guest, Entertainment, etc). Those modes track different binary variables I have setup. I already have custom bottoms created to turn certain modes on or off easily from iDevices, touchscreens etc. But so far I haven't figured out a way to determine if a mode is already on or off. I'd like to use a navigator or iDevice and see that the Vaction "light" in the Mode "room" is on or off. And then I could also turn a light/mode on or off from this screen and have it toggle the variable accordingly. Does anybody have something like this working? If not, I would still be interested in your input...sounds like a _______ (fill in the blank: good/hairbrained/etc) idea. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 The 'traditional' way to track and trigger modes such as this would be with a 2/3/6-button keypad.You certainly could use lights, but you'd need a light device driver that works without a device.There may be one, but I can't think of one off the top of my head. Most Light drivers won't show an 'on' state until the light has actually turned on and returned status that the light is on.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottGA Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 Thanks Ryan. Given that you are a pretty credible resource (understatement of the year!), I'm not too optimistic about being able to do what I want to do. For the record, I do use LED colors on 2/6 keypads to monitor/track all sorts of things. This whole crazy fake light idea is more to manage things when we aren't at home or in a room that has an associated LED.No surprising, but what you said makes complete sense. Of course that is one of the selling points of C4/Zpro is that the system won't show an "on" statement until the light/device reports back that it is on. Duh! I may still be living in my X10 days.I just had an idea for future development...it would be nice if Composer would let you create the custom buttons with a button color that could be managed by event programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 IF you still haven't found a solution to this. You may be able to set up a fake room with fake tv Devices and have each labeled as your lightning scene. You could then access that fake room and see which device is currently active and would substitute for that particular lightning scene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHA Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 There's a free virtual relay driver on here some where, use that along with relay devices to track the status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 bump. Anyone have this driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesin Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 why not just use a variable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Light switch is easier to see in the interface and you get status from light in interface Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdepaola Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 EV has a good third party "modes" driver on their website Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 DMX Artnet Dimmer driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMHarman Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 DMX Artnet Dimmer driverthat's the route I'm going. Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ControllAll Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 There is also a "C4-DEMO-DM" (dimmer) and "C4-DEMO-SW" (switch) driver from Control4 in the driver library that does the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 ^You know more than I do. I have not been able to get the DEMO to work for the ON mode, only OFF command works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineerisaac Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 And jump into an outdated thread But Hi! If you have a spare relay on a controller, just bind a generic relay of choice to that relay and program that to be open/closed. These just show on any interface, and are discreet and tracked.ie use a door open for home, closed for vacation and so on and so forth. Everthing above is over complicated. Get an i/o extender if you have to just to do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineerisaac Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Oh wow - one joke comment (see the wink as well as me commenting myself) and that's the reaction? PS the 'above' part is about ALL the above - not your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I just did exactly this using the Chowmain genetic lighting driver. Does exactly what the OP wanted to do. Set up a "light" for each variable you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I prefer using StartHere for this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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