How to make the most out of home automation during Isolation

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These are difficult times for everyone. With integrators and customers in lockdown the home automation industry is slowing to a standstill. So how can we make the most of this time? We at Chowmain we have decided to assist by providing additional resources to the industry which includes

• Driver trial extension increases (from 7 days to 90 days)
  • Integrator Employees - Employees can learn about, test and enjoy our drivers in their home during these periods.
  • Consumers - Integrators can reach out to customers to add value to their home automation system by installing trial versions of our drivers remotely into customer homes so they can live with the drivers for 3 months without any commitment.
• Staff discounts (from 25% to 50% off)
  • We want to make sure that integrators have the opportunity to get to know our drivers so what better way than providing it at a heavily reduced price for use in their own home.
• Lists of drivers that can be installed remotely without additional hardware.
  • Advanced Announcements - Chowmain’s Advanced Announcements driver expands the announcement agent by providing integration with web based text-to-speech engines.  This gives you futuristic dynamically generated voice notifications over your Control4 system without any additional hardware.  Imagine waking up to your home whilst it tells you the weather orhow many phone calls & doorbell presses have happened since you left.
  • Advanced Custom Buttons - The Advanced Custom Buttons app for Control4 T3 Touchscreens and any HTML5 compatible browser features up to 12 custom buttons.  Each button can be dynamically labelled through the Control4 programming tab and can provide LED feedback for button state.
  • Call to Prayer - Assists Muslim Control4 home owners who want to program their home for adhan (or azan) - the call to prayer which happens 5 times a day.
  • Contact Us - The Contact Us application for Control4 T3 touchscreens provides dealers with a professional looking contact us page on the T3 touchscreen.  You can customise the company logo, company contact details, google map and provide a clickable URL to your company website
  • Event Logging - The simple to use event logging driver stores programmed actions in a file located on the controller.  This can be used to monitor the log access to the home, activities within the home, troubleshoot problematic systems and more.  This data is viewable via an inbuilt web browser or via a network folder location.
  • Experience Button Suite - The Chowmain Experience Buttons Suite adds various programmable pulse/toggle/radio buttons to Control4 for use under the Watch, Listen, Security, Comfort and Services menus. 
  • Find my Remote - This simple driver will add a button to your Control4 touchscreen which when pressed will make your SR-250 or SR-260 remote beep. 
  • Notitication Suite - Chowmain's Notification Suite of drivers offers 3 notification drivers in one package which enhances the way Control4 informs you of events that happen within your home.  Drivers include email SMTP, Push Notifications for Windows 10/iOS/Android/PC/Mac/Linux with camera snapshot uploads.  Use it for doorbell camera photos, alarm system notifications and more.
  • IFTTT Maker - The swiss army knife of drivers adds two-way IFTTT communications to Control4.  Adds Amazon Echo, Push Notifications, SMS's, Phone calls, Tesla, BMW, other connected cars, twitter, emails, facial recognition, geofencing/location and so much more to Control4.
  • Weather Forecast - The Chowmain Forecast.io and OpenWeatherMap drivers brings current weather conditions and 2 day forecasts into Control4 for use in the home automation system via the internet services.  This is useful for automating services within the home based upon the external environment without the need for additional hardware. 
  • Scheduler - The Scheduler application for Control4 T3 touchscreens provides consumers with the ability to schedule anything in the Control4 system straight from the T3 touchscreen.  No expertise is needed!