Chowmain - LOOKin Remote

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Overview

The LOOKin Remote is an affordable solution to expand your smart home. With built in wi-fi functionality you can place LOOKin Remote anywhere and utilize it’s built in infra-red blaster, infra-red receiver, temperature / humidity sensor and Bluetooth remote pairing to control multiple devices around your home.

Features

• IP Based communications
• Auto Discovery of Box
• Can be used to control source devices that accept Bluetooth keyboard / remote pairing.
  • Transport Controls
  • Playback Control
  • Audio End-Point assignment for volume funcitonality
  • Video End-Point assignment
  • Driver Icon can be changed to
    • Amazon Fire TV
    • Apple TV
    • Chromecast with Google TV
    • Nvidia Shield
    • Xiaomi MiBox
    • PC
    • Mac
• Can expand Control4’s IR outputs.
  • Bind to any IR driver.
• Can receive IR signals.
  • Program IR remotes to fire programming in Control4
• Has temperature and humidity feedback in variables and bindings.
  • Connect to Control4's Temperature Display driver and more

FAQ

What device can I utilise Bluetooth for?

Bluetooth control is perfect for set top boxes which can pair bluetooth keyboards such as

• Amazon Fire TV
• Apple TV
• Nvidia Shield
• Xiao Mi Mibox
• PCs
• Macs
• and more.

What is the IR input used for?

The device can detect IR codes when a remote it pointed to it. As such you can utilise 3rd party remote controls to execute programming commands within Control4. The driver will update the Last IR Frequency, Last IR Protocol and Last IR Signal properties every time you send an IR signal to the box. Program the ‘IR Code Received’ event and match on the IRSIGNAL, IRFREQUENCY and IR_PROTOCOL variables based on what is in the properties to fire a suitable macro for each button press.

What is the IR output used for?

You can expand Control4’s IR outputs using the built in IR blaster. Bind any IR driver and the Lookin Remote will fire the IR code on demand. Note that it is a blaster and as such needs to be in the line of sight of the device it needs to control. Bundle it with our generic relay, generic fan speed or generic lighting driver to control non AV based devices.

How do I utilise the temperature and humidity sensors?

You can bind the tempeature and humidity sensors to any driver with the correct bindings. For example the temperature display driver for Control4 will allow for bindings to display the values in Navigator.

Can we change the icon of the driver to match my device?

We have implemented the ability to change the icons to several popular devices. Note that due to the way we have implemented this all instances of the driver will have the same icon. If you are utilising multiple instances of the driver only select the one icon.

Where can I purchase the hardware from?

You can find out more information including where to purchase from the Lookin website

http://www.look-in.club

I want to try this driver out before buying it?

All Chowmain drivers for Control4 come with a 90 day trial.

How do I find out more information about the driver?

Please see the links below for more information about the driver.

Driver Link