South Africa C4 user Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 I was just thinking now how cool it would be to be able to programmatically change the default room. I would love to create a landing for my maintenance staff while I am not at my holiday house. Essentially, I would have key custom buttons that help the, (all lights off, send a message to them advising what windows / doors are open, open / close garages etc.). I could achieve this by manually changing the default room when I go on holiday and leave to return home but programming it would be so much more cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 This has been asked for since C4 was launched. Guessing if it was possible, it would have been done by now. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted October 20, 2022 Author Share Posted October 20, 2022 Everything is “possible”… I think you mean “easy” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 minute ago, South Africa C4 user said: Everything is “possible”… I think you mean “easy” Well and thirdly how important is the feature? Everything takes time away from delivering something else South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLite Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 10/19/2022 at 9:05 AM, South Africa C4 user said: I was just thinking now how cool it would be to be able to programmatically change the default room. I would love to create a landing for my maintenance staff while I am not at my holiday house. Essentially, I would have key custom buttons that help the, (all lights off, send a message to them advising what windows / doors are open, open / close garages etc.). I could achieve this by manually changing the default room when I go on holiday and leave to return home but programming it would be so much more cool! Totally off-topic, @South Africa C4 user, but how do you send a message with a complete list of all open windows/doors? I am having a hard time seeing how to do that without a ton of code. What is your secret? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 16 hours ago, DLite said: Totally off-topic, @South Africa C4 user, but how do you send a message with a complete list of all open windows/doors? I am having a hard time seeing how to do that without a ton of code. What is your secret? At 6pm every evening and on press of a given button, I send a push notification which gives a summary and an email which gives summary and detail. The summary is: External doors open : True / False Internal doors open : True / False Windows open : True / False Gates open : True / False Garages open : True / False The detail goes something like: External doors: Front door ope : true / false dining room door open : true / false Etc. No code necessary but one has to set up an email and a push notification. With the text and the variables. I use the Domosapiens Security Enhancements driver to create security groups (and thus see if external doors are open etc.). I also count how often each door / window / motion sensor etc. is opened in a day. This takes a couple of lines of code per sensor but is useful for seeing whether the maintenance / domestic staff are actually working when we are not there. DLite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 I think there is a driver now for this, let me search for it South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 10 hours ago, Amr said: I think there is a driver now for this, let me search for it That would be incredible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Got it! Control4 Driver to programmatically change a T3 Touchscreen's currently active room! https://github.com/Leighm0/TouchscreenControl/releases/download/v1/TouchscreenControl.c4z South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 A couple of other rather interesting drivers as well to check out:https://github.com/Leighm0 (PS The touchscreen driver is currently T3 only) South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 Thanks both… a pity the Touchscreen driver is T3 only… hopefully someone will update this to be T4 also at some stage as that is really neat! I like the look of the wallpaper driver! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 11 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: Thanks both… a pity the Touchscreen driver is T3 only… hopefully someone will update this to be T4 also at some stage as that is really neat! I like the look of the wallpaper driver! Yeah that’s cool as well, I also like the refresh navigator’s app, u just do it from any touch screen (as per your programming) very handy driver there is also the new driver that locks specific actions, I don’t like the interface but it’s something that should be released by C4 in the upcoming releases! South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighm0 Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 On 11/5/2022 at 4:22 AM, South Africa C4 user said: Thanks both… a pity the Touchscreen driver is T3 only… hopefully someone will update this to be T4 also at some stage as that is really neat! I like the look of the wallpaper driver! I don't think it will ever support T4, the code behind this is not available on T4's (Control4 removed it I believe, as it doesn't respond to the same code).. I tested out with a few T4 displays and could not get it to do the same action, but I will look into it again. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 7, 2022 Author Share Posted November 7, 2022 12 hours ago, Leighm0 said: I don't think it will ever support T4, the code behind this is not available on T4's (Control4 removed it I believe, as it doesn't respond to the same code).. I tested out with a few T4 displays and could not get it to do the same action, but I will look into it again. What would also be neat is if you could lock it to the room you programatically flip to - in other words when going to the room also set favourites to no rooms and then revert to saved favourite rooms with another command Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighm0 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 6 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: What would also be neat is if you could lock it to the room you programatically flip to - in other words when going to the room also set favourites to no rooms and then revert to saved favourite rooms with another command I don't have any T4's here to test it on, so its going to be slow trying to work it out.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 6 hours ago, Leighm0 said: I don't have any T4's here to test it on, so its going to be slow trying to work it out.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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