Ideal Audio Control for a 6-Button Keypad?

[HomeAutomationNerd]

Hi All,

What's everyone's experience binding audio to keypad buttons? I'm curious what's worked well. 

Here's my current thinking.

1. Button 1:
   1. Pressed: "Rush". Plays the Tidal Rush Playlist across main floor audio zones. 
   2. Double-Tap: "Stop" for all main floor audio zones. 
2. Button [3,4,5] 
   1. Pressed: "<More Playlists>". Plays the Tidal Pop Playlist across main floor audio zones. 
   2. Double-Tap: "Stop" for all main floor audio zones. 
3. UP Button
   1. Pressed: Pulse Audio Up for all main floor audio zones
   2. Pressed: Pulse Audio Down for all main floor audio zones

Each room has a default volume of 30%. 

Questions:

• Volume control seems sketchy. Is there a "Max Volume" per room? Should I use the "Pressed/Released" to ramp volume? 
• Is there an easy way to integrate a "Next Song" / "Play" / Pause functionality? 
• Keypad "Up/Down" buttons have a "Track Last Button" option. Is this useful for anything? 
• This is all "Hand" Programmed. I could clean it up a bit with Macros, but it seems there's a better way to do this. 

//Chris

[alanchow]

Use the room control driver for Control4.  It creates bindings for keypads for all sorts of things like volume control.

[HomeAutomationNerd]

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Use the room control driver for Control4.  

Thanks Alan! I'm playing with it now and reading the docs.

BTW, I have your IFTTT driver (trial still). It's amazing. I love your generous trial policy - thanks for offering that, as it makes the evaluation process so much easier. 

Edited August 7, 2020 by ChrisM
Read more docs. No need to ask stupid questions...

[HomeAutomationNerd]

<Hour Later> 

I've got the Room Control driver bound to the room, the volume buttons on the keypad working well, and a button cycling between 5 Tidal Playlists. Seems to be working well. 

I think I'll add the "Double Click to Stop" back in, but other than that, everything seems to be working well. 

 

[eggzlot]

Single tap turns on a random stream for me - if a stream is already playing another single tap will change it to the next random stream (using room control driver)

Double tap mutes

triple tap turns it off

Up/Down arrows control volume

[zaphod]

13 hours ago, ChrisM said:

Hi All,

What's everyone's experience binding audio to keypad buttons? I'm curious what's worked well. 

Here's my current thinking.

1. Button 1:
   1. Pressed: "Rush". Plays the Tidal Rush Playlist across main floor audio zones. 
   2. Double-Tap: "Stop" for all main floor audio zones. 
2. Button [3,4,5] 
   1. Pressed: "<More Playlists>". Plays the Tidal Pop Playlist across main floor audio zones. 
   2. Double-Tap: "Stop" for all main floor audio zones. 
3. UP Button
   1. Pressed: Pulse Audio Up for all main floor audio zones
   2. Pressed: Pulse Audio Down for all main floor audio zones

 

I am confused as to why you would ever need anything other than Button 1?  Why would anyone ever want to play anything other than the Rush playlist?

[HomeAutomationNerd]

I am confused as to why you would ever need anything other than Button 1?  Why would anyone ever want to play anything other than the Rush playlist?

I wonder the same thing, and have brought my kids up to agree. Somehow, once in a while, some K-Pop sneaks in due to unsavory outside influences.

(And I do like rain / thunderstorms at night, but that’s a different keypad).


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