alanchow Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Chowmain - Experience Buttons Suite The Chowmain Experience Buttons Suite of drivers is designed to add additional functionality into Control4 for various Pulse buttons, On/Off type buttons and Radio Buttons. These buttons can be added to the watch, listen, security, comfort and services menu in Control4's navigator across all user interface devices. Think of them as custom buttons with an icon and feedback as to their current state. On/Off Based buttons Features Ability to be placed in the following menus. Watch Listen Comfort Security Services (only available on T3 touchscreens/EA Controllers) 14 different buttons to choose from On/Off 1 On/Off 2 On/Off 3 On/Off 4 Holiday Mode 1 Holiday Mode 2 Holiday Mode 3 Holiday Mode 4 Nurse Call Party Mode 1 Party Mode 2 Romance Tech Support Checkbox Favorites Events On Off Actions Turn On Turn Off Variables Activated Clicking on a button will toggle the state from On/Off or vice versa and fire an event. Radio Button Features Ability to be placed in the following menus. Watch Listen Comfort Security Services (only available on T3 touchscreens/EA Controllers) Add multiple instances of the driver and group together to create radio buttons in navigator Only one radio button can be selected at any time (just like real radio buttons). Events Selected Not Selected Actions Select Radio Button Variables Checked FAQ Can you give us some examples of how we could use this driver? Favorites buttons can be added to Watch/Listen and programmed to start playback of your favorite TV/Radio Channel, Movie or Playlist eg CNN, BBC, Fox FM, Alan's Playlist. Holiday Mode buttons can be used to trigger holiday mode programming whilst the home owners are away. Use the tech support button to send you, the dealer, an email notifying you that the owner requires assistance. Use the nurse call button for aged care based functionality to call the carer. The On/Off buttons and checkbox buttons can be used for various programming including boolean variable manipulation, turning automated tasks on/off and more. Radio buttons can be used to change the state of a number variable. This is useful for mode selection in the home for modes that have more than 2 options. If a mode has two options only please utilise any of the other On/Off based Experience Buttons. Why do you only support OS 2.9 and above? Experience Buttons requires new functionality only available in OS 2.9 and above. It will not work for older versions of OS. Can you add XYZ button to the Experience Button Suite? If its a good idea and generic enough where other dealers will use it then yes. You will need to provide us with an on and off PNG based image at 300x300. If you have obtained or modified any images sourced from someone else please provide any relevant licencing information that we need to abide by. How do I find out more information about the driver? Please see the links below for more information about the driver. Chowmain Website Download Installation Guide How do I buy the driver? This driver is developed by Chowmain software & apps and is distributed and supported by Houselogix, Inc. Download Driver / Purchase Licence Who do i contact for technical support? This driver is developed by Chowmain software & apps and is distributed and supported by Houselogix, Inc. Support Do you provide trial licences? All Chowmain drivers for Control4 come with a 48 hour trial. This is activated once you add the driver to the project. No additional steps are necessary. Guest Services Example Watch Example Listen Example msgreenf, vstar and South Africa C4 user 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 I must say this looks pretty neat Alan! I will definitely be using the 48 hour trial when I get a free moment. I will most likely buy... What would be really nice (an enhancement request) is if you could have one of your buttons open up another page (like extras in comfort currently does) and put your buttons in that new page also... Then one could also use this driver to create menus in menus etc. much like one can currently do with StartHere! Two other nice add ons would be: 1. To be able to include a text box with a few lines of text in place of a row of buttons... 2. To have the ability to paste your own icon in to the button (I assume one can already change the text on the button and one is not stuck with Check box, Holiday 1 etc.). You will gather from my suggestions that I am seeing ways of making your driver mimic StartHere! but work on all the new hardware and be infinitely more powerful. By way of example (requiring all 3 of my suggested enhancements), one of the very basic things I have in StartHere at present is the ability to choose a keypad backlight colour for each of upstairs and downstairs separately for day and night (4 options, 7 colours). If your driver allowed a page to pop up, the 4 options could be in the comfort page and all of them would call up an identical second page (with 7 buttons each with an appropriate coloured circle in the centre of the button - these would act as a radio button). One could then have a text entry below the buttons that reminds the user what they are currently doing and says "Upstairs daytime backlights are set to blue" and changes dynamically as one changes the selection or enters the page from a different button in the first place. I have currently kept two of my Touchscreens as V2s for two reasons (a lack of book marking ability and the inability to use StartHere! on the new Touchscreens). Your driver as it stands now would go half way to removing my reliance on StartHere! And if the above 3 changes were made, I could come off StartHere! alltogether... one can dream! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted September 15, 2016 Author Share Posted September 15, 2016 Unfortunately the new UIButton proxy isn't as flexible as you think it is. OS 2.9 cannot do any of your feature requests. Trust me if I could I would have already made something like what you're after. you can change the text but images are hard coded into the actual driver itself. If you have any good suggestions that are generic and useful to everyone let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Alan- I'm trying to understand the 'experience buttons' vs the buttons C4 already uses. Is it like having a TV button under watch but shows the TV on vs off (black tv button)? Possibly a window or door button with one being open and another being closed? (such as how the garage door button shows this)? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 15 minutes ago, Gene said: Alan- I'm trying to understand the 'experience buttons' vs the buttons C4 already uses. Is it like having a TV button under watch but shows the TV on vs off (black tv button)? Possibly a window or door button with one being open and another being closed? (such as how the garage door button shows this)? Thanks! The best way to describe it is as such. You know those Custom Button's Control4 has had for years that you can program anything on. Wouldn't it be great if you could get feedback for those buttons? Well now you can with pretty icons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowitall Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I don't supposed they can be added to the main c4 homepage tho ? im in the dark ages with a 250 and old TS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 9 hours ago, knowitall said: I don't supposed they can be added to the main c4 homepage tho ? im in the dark ages with a 250 and old TS. Experience buttons can be added to watch, listen, comfort, security & services sub menus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 @alanchowI want my Garage to by like your Garage. Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted September 20, 2016 Author Share Posted September 20, 2016 2 hours ago, Elvis said: @alanchowI want my Garage to by like your Garage. Awesome. Unfortunately for me I had to renovate and convert my garage into an office when my first daughter was born. But yes it is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 I see you've added some white goods Experience Buttons - very cool! A day / night Button would be a very useful addition. So would a countdown button where it counts down in days rather than hours or minutes. Alternatively, a countdown button where the user controls when the number changes... jb_c4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 6, 2016 Author Share Posted November 6, 2016 15 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: I see you've added some white goods Experience Buttons - very cool! A day / night Button would be a very useful addition. So would a countdown button where it counts down in days rather than hours or minutes. Alternatively, a countdown button where the user controls when the number changes... Yes we are going to announce those buttons today. You will be able to integrate white goods/appliances via IFTTT or relays. IFTTT supports integration of GE, Samsung, LG, Whirlpool, Bosch & Siemens appliances. Some with feedback only others with control and feedback. The experience buttons can be used for both one way feedback or control and feedback. I don't quite understand what the day/night button would do... wouldn't that be automated by the scheduler's astronomical clock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 10 hours ago, alanchow said: Yes we are going to announce those buttons today. You will be able to integrate white goods/appliances via IFTTT or relays. IFTTT supports integration of GE, Samsung, LG, Whirlpool, Bosch & Siemens appliances. Some with feedback only others with control and feedback. The experience buttons can be used for both one way feedback or control and feedback. I don't quite understand what the day/night button would do... wouldn't that be automated by the scheduler's astronomical clock? Sorry! I had not meant to jump in ahead of your announcement! Keep up th egood work... My thoughts on the day / night Button was really just an on/off switch where on shows a daylight picture (sun rising) and off shows a nighttime scene (moon and stars). I was looking for an Experience Button like this when I was setting up some control for irrigation. I have an option for morning or night and rather than using a radio button, I thought an icon swapping between day and night would work... I can see other uses for a button with 3 states, day, night and 24/7. Hope that makes sense? Billiam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 On 11/7/2016 at 0:31 AM, South Africa C4 user said: Sorry! I had not meant to jump in ahead of your announcement! Keep up th egood work... My thoughts on the day / night Button was really just an on/off switch where on shows a daylight picture (sun rising) and off shows a nighttime scene (moon and stars). I was looking for an Experience Button like this when I was setting up some control for irrigation. I have an option for morning or night and rather than using a radio button, I thought an icon swapping between day and night would work... I can see other uses for a button with 3 states, day, night and 24/7. Hope that makes sense? I would like this too and would use it as a "Bedtime" button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Alan, Can you consider adding relay bindings to these buttons? Also noticed the on/off 1 in the documentation tab it calls it on/off 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted May 1, 2017 Author Share Posted May 1, 2017 On 2017-4-28 at 2:39 AM, msgreenf said: Alan, Can you consider adding relay bindings to these buttons? Also noticed the on/off 1 in the documentation tab it calls it on/off 2 Not at this stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreativeTom Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Would be really good to have an experience button with a gate symbol added that can show open and closed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 3 minutes ago, CreativeTom said: Would be really good to have an experience button with a gate symbol added that can show open and closed? Control4 has a free Experience button that does just that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreativeTom Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 1 hour ago, South Africa C4 user said: Control4 has a free Experience button that does just that... Ive never been able to find it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Just now, CreativeTom said: Ive never been able to find it?? search for gate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepritch88 Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 when your searching look in the "type" drop down menu and select experience buttons, that will narrow down your search a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Any plans to add additional buttons to the suite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 42 minutes ago, jfh said: Any plans to add additional buttons to the suite? From time to time we add buttons to the suite but it largely depends on demand. Our last update including all the white good buttons what work nicely with our IFTTT driver and also with our smart plug/outlet drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 @alanchow - love this suite of drivers and use it daily. But, some of these are not working properly in OS3.1. In particular some (e.g. the check box) does not update its status if it is favorited to the main room page. It still works in (for instance) the Comfort menu. The problem appears on T3s but it works fine on an iPad. I have the same issue at my main home and my holiday home and am 99.9% sure that this problem was not there in OS3.0. Other button types (e.g. holiday) work fine. msgreenf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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