poseidonsystems Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 10 minutes ago, jackstone said: You only need the NWK and the Lutron Power Panel (and maybe a 24v power supply for the NWK). You need to ask the shade installer to set the limit while installing, that's easy to do using the three buttons on the share motor. The rest of the programming will be done using the driver without the need of command line or complicated stuff. No that's no an urban legend, this driver work and once you know how to use it, you will never go back to the dated driver from C4 database. Why there is no support? Because the original driver was made by Houseloginc sponsered by Lutron and supported by Control4. My driver is a modded version of the Houselogix driver, I've done it on my time and I was not paid to do so. I am willing to share it to other and explain how to get it to work but don't expect deep support unless I make the driver paid. That being says, here is the steps needed to make it work: - Make sure ALL your shades are installed and connected to the power panel (important! They need to be all there!) - Install the NWK on the Lutron QS bus and turn it On. Plug it to the network. - Set the NWK IP to something in your current network using the IP Configuration Utility (attached) - Add the Lutron NWK QS (Domaudeo) to the projet. - Do the network binding according to the IP you've set - Go to Action and select "Discover Lutron QS Devices". Wait a few seconds... - Go back to properties and it should have found your NWK: - Select the NWK device and enter nwk as the username (it's the default username set in the NWK, this is well known) - Now add a Lutron Sivolia QS Shade (Domaudeo) driver to the project, your need one per shade, of course, but start with one for testing. - On the SHADE driver, Select Action and Discover Lutron QS Devices... Wait a few seconds. - On back on the Properties of the Shade driver and the Discovered Devices should have populated. - Select the shade you want to control - IMPORTANT! If the shade is brand new and has never "seen" the NWK before, give it a name in the "Device Address" propertie: - Click "Set" then go the the Action tab and select "Set Integration ID" The Shade should now fully work with bidirectionnal feedback and a nice Slider interface in Navigator. There is a nice Shade Group driver also Included, it build a real hardware shade group for perfectly synchroneous control and birectionnal feedback of the average level of the shade in the group. I can explain how to use if requested. Hope this will help. Share this procedure if someone else need it. IP Configuration Utility.zip 36.53 kB · 0 downloads Thank you for sharing this, it's great! However I have lights connected to the system as well. Ia there a way to add the frafik eye lights in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackstone Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 1 minute ago, poseidonsystems said: Thank you for sharing this, it's great! However I have lights connected to the system as well. Ia there a way to add the frafik eye lights in? The Graffik Eye *SHOULD* work as it was with the stock driver, because the core of the driver is exactly the same as the one on C4 DB. I can't help on setting up GraffikEye and light on the NWK because I've never done that. This BTW is a supported case you can submit to C4 tech support (just don't tell them you're using a custom NWK driver) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoreLineJesse Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Wow! Thanks so much for all your help! Honestly above and beyond. I will be using the shade group driver as well so a quick setup guide would be great as I see there is no documentation in the drivers. Also, the project we are working on has a guest house with the same setup. It would be much more than 2000ft for the QS link to run them together. Can I install multiple NWK's in a project? Worst case scenario we will just create 2 separate projects but i'd rather not do that if I don't have to. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackstone Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Pretty sure you can't "link" two NWK together but why doing that? One NWK and control A LOT of devices and Lutron cabling is very reliable even on long runs. If you absolutely need to use 2 NWK, you will have them both in the project and each respective devices will be attached to his own NWK, this will be invisible for the customer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoreLineJesse Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Thanks for this Jackstone. I have got the shades working well. I managed to get the groups working as well but Ibhave one group that just doesn't want to work. Can you please explain how this works with the phantom buttons? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackstone Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Why not use the Shade Group Driver? It will build the group automatically and choose the right phantom button. It need to use one phantom button per group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinavl Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 COULD I GET A COPY OF THIS DRIVER? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackstone Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Here's the latest release of my NWK driver, and it is not distributed and supported by BlackWire: https://www.blackwiredesigns.com/store/better-lutron-qs-standalone-nwk-driver-for-shade-and-shade-group/ It comes will full step by step documention and tech support from Blackwire. The driver has evolved a lot since the first release, and since Lutron wouldn't subsidized my work, I was need to put a price on the driver, but I think it's still affordable for all the added features compared to the driver in the C4 DB This is by far the cheapest and easiest way to integrate Lutron WS wired shades into Control4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poseidonsystems Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 On 3/17/2019 at 11:24 AM, jackstone said: You only need the NWK and the Lutron Power Panel (and maybe a 24v power supply for the NWK). You need to ask the shade installer to set the limit while installing, that's easy to do using the three buttons on the share motor. The rest of the programming will be done using the driver without the need of command line or complicated stuff. No that's no an urban legend, this driver work and once you know how to use it, you will never go back to the dated driver from C4 database. Why there is no support? Because the original driver was made by Houseloginc sponsered by Lutron and supported by Control4. My driver is a modded version of the Houselogix driver, I've done it on my time and I was not paid to do so. I am willing to share it to other and explain how to get it to work but don't expect deep support unless I make the driver paid. That being says, here is the steps needed to make it work: - Make sure ALL your shades are installed and connected to the power panel (important! They need to be all there!) - Install the NWK on the Lutron QS bus and turn it On. Plug it to the network. - Set the NWK IP to something in your current network using the IP Configuration Utility (attached) - Add the Lutron NWK QS (Domaudeo) to the projet. - Do the network binding according to the IP you've set - Go to Action and select "Discover Lutron QS Devices". Wait a few seconds... - Go back to properties and it should have found your NWK: - Select the NWK device and enter nwk as the username (it's the default username set in the NWK, this is well known) - Now add a Lutron Sivolia QS Shade (Domaudeo) driver to the project, your need one per shade, of course, but start with one for testing. - On the SHADE driver, Select Action and Discover Lutron QS Devices... Wait a few seconds. - On back on the Properties of the Shade driver and the Discovered Devices should have populated. - Select the shade you want to control - IMPORTANT! If the shade is brand new and has never "seen" the NWK before, give it a name in the "Device Address" propertie: - Click "Set" then go the the Action tab and select "Set Integration ID" The Shade should now fully work with bidirectionnal feedback and a nice Slider interface in Navigator. There is a nice Shade Group driver also Included, it build a real hardware shade group for perfectly synchroneous control and birectionnal feedback of the average level of the shade in the group. I can explain how to use if requested. Hope this will help. Share this procedure if someone else need it. IP Configuration Utility.zip 36.53 kB · 22 downloads Thanks for setting this up...I got as far as identifying the NWK but then the shades don't populate in the 'Discovered Devices in the Shade driver ;-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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