South Africa C4 user Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 A float value as well would be useful! There are a number of drivers that do this. While you are at it, a string would be nice too :-) There is also a Chowmain driver that converts numbers to floats and so on... I wish I'd had that years ago as I wrote a macro that does this for numbers between 1 and 100 (200 lines of code... Lots of if statements) and for channels I need to go above 100! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 Thanks for the feedback...we are working on another release which will have a float and possibly a string value for SET_VALUE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 I have created a couple short videos which show how to 1)Setup the Echo driver and create & sync triggers with the Echo and 2)Program the triggers. The videos can be viewed on the Home page of our website (www.epic-systems.com) Feedback welcomed, as always! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 On 1/11/2016 at 7:59 AM, RobbieF said: Cool Video - Now I HAVE to have one!! Cough, cough, I think our video is pretty good too, cough cough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 The Best. Time to make a new one showing off the Set sh*t! If you don't I will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiam Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I have been using the now abandoned Voicepod driver. I want too understand how I might set-up programming if I switch to your driver... I have 3 Echos in the Bedroom, Kitchen and Theater. Currently they are all under the same Amazon account. In the other driver I was able to say "Alexa, tell Voicepod to WATCH TV in the bedroom" or "...WATCH TV in the Theatre." The WATCH command would trigger programming based on the "room variable". With YOUR driver, as I understand it, I would have to create a trigger called "Bedroom TV" and another called "Theater TV" . I would then say "Alexa, turn on the Bedroom TV" or " turn on the Theater TV" Correct? I would have to create a separate trigger for each "thing" I want to control in each room. Fair enough. But would the following work...? If I were to register each of the Echos under separate accounts and install 3 instances of your driver, it seems I would save a lot of trigger words and simplify the words I have to remember. I could just say "Alexa, turn on the TV" or "Alexa, raise the drapes" and whatever room that echo is in would have its driver coded to control the TV or drapes for that room. Aside from having 3 different Amazon shopping lists, is there a downside to this idea that I'm not seeing? I love that with your driver I'll no longer have to say "tell voice pod to..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 Yes, your understanding is absolutely correct. No there is really no major downside to having the Echos on separate Amazon accounts other than what you've already mentioned, and especially if you are really just using the Echo's for voice control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 Version 110 has been released to production - it includes both FLOAT and STRING variables for the Set value (in addition to the NUMBER variable). It can be downloaded from the links here: http://www.epic-systems.com/products/amazon-echo-driver-for-control4 Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 On September 1, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Billiam said: I have been using the now abandoned Voicepod driver. I want too understand how I might set-up programming if I switch to your driver... I have 3 Echos in the Bedroom, Kitchen and Theater. Currently they are all under the same Amazon account. In the other driver I was able to say "Alexa, tell Voicepod to WATCH TV in the bedroom" or "...WATCH TV in the Theatre." The WATCH command would trigger programming based on the "room variable". With YOUR driver, as I understand it, I would have to create a trigger called "Bedroom TV" and another called "Theater TV" . I would then say "Alexa, turn on the Bedroom TV" or " turn on the Theater TV" Correct? I would have to create a separate trigger for each "thing" I want to control in each room. Fair enough. But would the following work...? If I were to register each of the Echos under separate accounts and install 3 instances of your driver, it seems I would save a lot of trigger words and simplify the words I have to remember. I could just say "Alexa, turn on the TV" or "Alexa, raise the drapes" and whatever room that echo is in would have its driver coded to control the TV or drapes for that room. Aside from having 3 different Amazon shopping lists, is there a downside to this idea that I'm not seeing? I love that with your driver I'll no longer have to say "tell voice pod to..." Another option which used is "Turn on Bedroom" and set a variable which tells C4 that all future commands relate to the bedroom be they TV or Blinds or whatever. "turn on Living Room" would change the variable and all future commands would relate to the Livingroom. If we could only have Simon Says type feedback you could also get the sort of responses that came from the VoicePod Beta (like "turning on TV in the bedroom" which would be useful if Alexa happens to think you are in a different room from what you really are... I have my room variable default back to the main bedroom after a period of inactivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prabeau Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Just released. ...?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted September 11, 2016 Author Share Posted September 11, 2016 3 hours ago, prabeau said: Just released. ...?? what are you asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prabeau Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 Posted December 18, 2015 was first post of in Just released ? Now 14 pages later... old news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Yes, but it is still the hottest topic, which is why the c4forums keeps bubbling this thread to the top of the list! Also what is new news is that we released a new version of the driver just recently, which people are really enjoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control4Jarvis Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Is there any way that I can use alexa driver with 2.5.3 ? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzir Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Is the customization in this driver done in Composer HE or is it done by the dealer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheaterExtreme Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Like all drivers, you only need the dealer to install it and the rest is up to you if you have Composer HE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheaterExtreme Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 You have to pay for the license too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browneye253 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I'm trying to program a trigger to set the channel on my DirecTV box. I noticed a few pages back some people discussing this and I'm wondering if anybody was successful? Right now I have the "Satellite Set" command to "Set the DirecTV->CHANNEL_NUM to the value of Amazon Echo -> SET_VALUE_STRING This doesn't seem to do anything for me though. Any pointers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StroTek LLC Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Call your trigger SATELLITE. then use the phrase "Alexa set satellite to 249" That should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browneye253 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Yea, that's what I currently have setup. It doesn't seem to like "Satellite" as it keeps trying to set an alarm with that trigger. I changed it to Living Room just for testing and that seems to work but I'm getting the following error from the DirecTV IP Driver. 10/16/16 23:00:52 : Invalid channel number request - please see manual and Lua tab for more info 10/16/16 23:01:03 : DIRECTV Current Information: () - I tried running test where I set the channel to 206 in the programming for instance and it threw the same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 11 hours ago, StroTek LLC said: Call your trigger SATELLITE. then use the phrase "Alexa set satellite to 249" That should work The problem, as far as I can see (perhaps @chopedogg88 can comment) is that one can not use the set command outside of the range 0 to 100. Our satellite TV is called "Explora" and I have set up all the programming. If I say "Set Explora to 55" it tries to set the channel to 55... if I say "set Explora to 101" it tries to set the channel to 100. Similarly for any other number above 100. I have checked the integer value and the string value and both get stuck at 100. Am I missing something? I'd love to be ale tonuse higher numbers like 249! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 That is correct, echo only sends us a percentage value between 0 and 100 because it thinks it is controlling a dimmer. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StroTek LLC Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 ahh.. well the way I have it that definitely works.. Is U have names for my favorite channels programmed.. like Comedy central, or HGTV, ESPN so my phrases are: "Alexa Set satellite to HGTV" and then I have code to set it to the right channel number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Just now, StroTek LLC said: so my phrases are: "Alexa Set satellite to HGTV" and then I have code to set it to the right channel number Agree that is the best way to do this with both drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 40 minutes ago, StroTek LLC said: ahh.. well the way I have it that definitely works.. Is U have names for my favorite channels programmed.. like Comedy central, or HGTV, ESPN so my phrases are: "Alexa Set satellite to HGTV" and then I have code to set it to the right channel number Will definitely give this a try later. I always assumed the string value was numeric only although I have seen a few posts that this can be done, I have not tried it. Will do now! Would be better than remembering channel numbers. So you can say set Sattelite to ESPN and the trigger is Sattellite and the String value is ESPN? Sounds really cool. I thought I'd have to use ESPN as the trigger and use turn on ESPN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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