Joshua Pressnell Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Have any of you found yourself wanting to integrate Control4 with other home automation systems or custom code, but don't know how to start with driver development? I have expanded on my HomeKit driver to provide a basic HTTP API for controlling Control4 systems from anywhere, via any system. With a little software knowledge, you can control an ever expanding list of devices from anywhere you can call a web URL! For a preview of the driver API, check out this Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15csLkkoWDTZ691vxScvGrPdofYB7fSuYdBK6G6m34RM/edit?usp=sharing The driver is going through some final testing now and I need to finish off the documentation and clean things up a little bit, but it's nearly ready for prime time. Anybody out there interested? Amr, msgreenf and cnicholson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaas Mayer Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 very nice! i did the same today aswell, but for multimedia inputs. i used the chowmain tcp driver and set a lot input commands for every key on the remote. now i can trigger the remote keys from an different app. i can change the video and audio sources aswell with that. but its a lot of work to do this with every single input command Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 56 minutes ago, Joshua Pressnell said: Have any of you found yourself wanting to integrate Control4 with other home automation systems or custom code, but don't know how to start with driver development? I have expanded on my HomeKit driver to provide a basic HTTP API for controlling Control4 systems from anywhere, via any system. With a little software knowledge, you can control an ever expanding list of devices from anywhere you can call a web URL! For a preview of the driver API, check out this Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15csLkkoWDTZ691vxScvGrPdofYB7fSuYdBK6G6m34RM/edit?usp=sharing The driver is going through some final testing now and I need to finish off the documentation and clean things up a little bit, but it's nearly ready for prime time. Anybody out there interested? I’m for sure interested, so this would allows me to control any C4 property from outside, so it’s outwards Control with 2- way feedback, Right? For example I can’t use it to control devices that is unique to the other HA system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaas Mayer Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 btw. i used that driver aswell : https://github.com/itsfrosty/control4-2way-web-driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Pressnell Posted June 19, 2023 Author Share Posted June 19, 2023 Kaas, I'll be expanding features as I roll along. One of the key advantages of my driver vs. the one you listed is that I also support a feedback URL, so that you don't have to poll to get devices status updates (very inefficient). Kaas Mayer and msgreenf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Pressnell Posted June 19, 2023 Author Share Posted June 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Amr said: I’m for sure interested, so this would allows me to control any C4 property from outside, so it’s outwards Control with 2- way feedback, Right? For example I can’t use it to control devices that is unique to the other HA system? You'd need to poke a port forward through to your driver port to allow outside control, but since I am including security as part of this interface, it's reasonably safe to do so. You're correct, it won't be able to control the other HA system, but you will get full control of C4 and can get direct feedback via callback URL. Amr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eon Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 I'm also interested at the moment i'm using Chowmain tcp driver and control4-2way-web-driver, and its working ok for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaas Mayer Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 is it possible that you also integrate room controls? room on/off, room remote commands and so on? set volume etc would be awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Pressnell Posted July 20, 2023 Author Share Posted July 20, 2023 It's very much on my list of "want to do" items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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