cylon147 Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Why this Driver? Apple's Siri Shortcuts are designed to speed up actions you take in apps and let you add those actions to Siri. There's also a dedicated Shortcuts app, so you can create and manage multiple actions across multiple apps. The Shortcuts app has an Options to fire any URL and using this we can fire any commands to control4 system. This is a simplest and easy way to make Control4 triggers to available on iPhone screen as well through Siri. Lighting Fast Response. Where can we use this driver? You can create a Bunch of shortcut to replicate a Control4 Keypad on iPhone screen. It will act as an Virtual Keypad. Make a Shortcut for Light,Curtain or AC that you use Everyday so it will be available on your figure tip whenever you want. A shortcut to that tells you which Door/Window is open in your House. A shortcut for a Light so when you enter in room you just say "Hey Siri, Lights" and based on Light status it will Turn ON or OFF the light for you. More fun - Go to your iPhone's settings> Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap > Double Tap. Here Select your favorite shortcut and fire it with Double Tap on back of your iPhone. There are Endless Possibilities. https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/utility/apple-shortcuts/ Wayne and South Africa C4 user 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Definitely a driver I intend trying out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4Iona Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Can you make a shortcut to open Netflix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, c4Iona said: Can you make a shortcut to open Netflix? If said room supports mini apps (Ie Roku), sure. If you can program it in Composer, you can activate it from a shortcut. Shortcut is nothing more than a software 'button'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Does it work remotely (e.g. through 4Sight) or only when connected to local network? are there limits on the number of buttons you can set up on the iPhone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 This method sends a text string to the directors URL on the local network. Which then does what ever programming in composer is associated to said string. So local network only. It's useful for Siri triggers, on say an Apple Watch, or a quick set of buttons on your phone, rather than launching the Control4 app. I'm home, goodbye, outsides on, that sort of thing. But you have to setup everything you want it to do. Homekit would allow remote, and would pull in devices from Control4, providing more functionality. There's a different driver, and extra requirements, for setting all that up. (a homekit server and a bridging device) cylon147 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 2 hours ago, RAV said: This method sends a text string to the directors URL on the local network. Which then does what ever programming in composer is associated to said string. So local network only. It's useful for Siri triggers, on say an Apple Watch, or a quick set of buttons on your phone, rather than launching the Control4 app. I'm home, goodbye, outsides on, that sort of thing. But you have to setup everything you want it to do. Homekit would allow remote, and would pull in devices from Control4, providing more functionality. There's a different driver, and extra requirements, for setting all that up. (a homekit server and a bridging device) I would have thought that if you are using dynamic dns you can use this driver remotely? I know I have been using Apple Shortcuts with another driver and I can use them remotely (but only because of dynamic dns). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekohn00 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 1 hour ago, South Africa C4 user said: I would have thought that if you are using dynamic dns you can use this driver remotely? I know I have been using Apple Shortcuts with another driver and I can use them remotely (but only because of dynamic dns). That's not exactly correct. DDNS get you to the "public" IP on your routers. Apple uses icloud to talk to a device on the internal network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekohn00 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 4 hours ago, RAV said: This method sends a text string to the directors URL on the local network. Which then does what ever programming in composer is associated to said string. So local network only. It's useful for Siri triggers, on say an Apple Watch, or a quick set of buttons on your phone, rather than launching the Control4 app. I'm home, goodbye, outsides on, that sort of thing. But you have to setup everything you want it to do. Homekit would allow remote, and would pull in devices from Control4, providing more functionality. There's a different driver, and extra requirements, for setting all that up. (a homekit server and a bridging device) I'd love to see this working in the opposite direction..... So I can create a Netflix Icon in composer, that runs the Apple Shortcut that calls netflix on the ATV..... or other programmed shortcuts. Otherwise I assume this has a lot of features of using Apple Home with homebridge. cylon147 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug M Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 I was able to get this working in the opposite direction with Homebridge, but had to use an Apple TV Remote plugin. (I used one from @kurtwarwick) Just use Homekit automation with a Control4 virtual switch or relay to kick it off. I'm just trying to make it more attractive on the C4 Neeo and app now. tmj4 and cylon147 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmwbball88 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 This seems like just the chowmain tcp driver unless I’m missing something. I have shortcuts and Siri setup to call a url and the. I setup that incoming programming on my c4 via the tcp driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 13 hours ago, Bmwbball88 said: This seems like just the chowmain tcp driver unless I’m missing something. I have shortcuts and Siri setup to call a url and the. I setup that incoming programming on my c4 via the tcp driver. There's another free way too, this one's nicely packaged, and specifically documented. cylon147 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug M Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 I didn't know the TCP Driver could invoke Homekit devices. I thought it was only from Homekit to C4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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