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vstar got a reaction from HomeAutomationNerd in Multiple TV's in one room.
https://drivers.control4.com/solr/drivers/browse?q=Multi+Screen+Wall&fq=certified%3A"true"&fq=manufacturer%3A"Control4"
This driver is designed to control up to 20 screens in a room arranged as minor screens around a major screen. The primary use of the driver is to enable the customer to easily swap the source displayed on a minor screen with that on the major screen. This is most often used when customers wish to follow more than one sports event simultaneously switching the focus between games as they progress.
The driver and method described here provides the customer with the flexibility to control such arrangements using the standard Control4 UI. The control of the major screen will enable them to both control the source currently displayed and easily swap with another screen. It is also possible to control any of the minor screens with a separate control device (Touchpanel, App or Remote) which is great when friends come around.
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vstar reacted to zaphod in Fireplace Integration help
I don't actually have a wireless relay/contact module and they cost much more than the Bond bridge. And the log set is not very close to any controllers, unless I were to drill a hole through the wall or floor. I have a few surplus Global Cache units but the ones that I have are wired. The remote actually controls flame size by holding down the on button but you may be able to simulate that with a relay as well.
It also looks like the Bond Bridge has a well documented API so rather than buying the driver I could just use Alan's TCP driver and hit a URL - or do this through an intermediate step on a Raspberry Pi which I do for a couple of other things today. http://docs-local.appbond.com/#section/Introduction
Since it is a local API, rather than cloud based, security shouldn't be an issue. There is a security token but the docs don't mention anything about the token expiring so presumably you could hard code it into the command.
Here is a command using Curl to set the speed of a fan with the Bond API. You should be able to emulate this command with the Generic TCP driver sending an HTTP PUT command. I presume that fireplace commands should be very similar.
curl -H "BOND-Token: f074b61f628018fd" -i http://192.100.0.61/v2/devices/79135791/actions/SetSpeed -X PUT -d "{\"argument\": 3}"
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vstar reacted to Matt Lowe in Composer Home Training Course.
My office has started a youtube studio for our products. Since we have the equipment I am looking to invest in the time to creating a composer home training course. To start this will be focused completely for the consumer side and we may do some videos that are dealer specific if it is popular. Just wanted to see whom here may be interested and hopefully I can help you better your own automation and home setup. Below are a few of the topics we are looking to cover. Any suggestions on what you may want us to cover or that i missed? Hope to start filming soon!
Composer Home Walk Through
Announcements
Creating Advanced Light Scene
Using Advanced Lighting Scenes in your project
Keypad Lighting and Feedback
Motion Detection
Panic Button!
Security Light Driver
Camera Navigation Agent
Camera Email and Push notifications
Security System and the Mockupancy Driver
The Power of macros
Customizing Room Navigators
Creating a Favorites room for Navigators
Remote Focus buttons for Neo
Custom buttons for SR260
Door Station Custom Buttons
Room based Programming
Source Selection Programming
Room Control Driver
Plex Driver
Favorite Rooms in the room and on the neo and sr260
Alexa and Google Home Voice Scene Drivers
Alexa and Google Home Routines
Add Music Driver
Source Selection Programming
Timers in depth
PDU Programming
Network Switch Programming
Fireplace Programming
Experience buttons
Dimmer Load setup
Shades
Scheduler
Airplay Driver
Spotify Connect
Pandora and other Music service programming
Programming on Room Off
Irrigation
Christmas Lights
Dlna My Music Driver
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vstar reacted to Shivam Paw in Outlook Calendar Integration (View Events on Navs, Program Event Alerts & Event Variables)
It's here! After a lot of requests, we now have a driver for providing Outlook Calendar integration!
You can view any of your calendars right from your Control4 navigator (iOS, Android, T3, OSDs) and view the events for them! You can also filter by categories and make multiple driver instances for different categories you may have! And as of Version 7 you can create events right from your Control4 navigator!
Important Note: This driver is compatible with Exchange Servers that meet the Graph API requirements. If you are trying to connect an account that doesn't meet those requirements, the API requests will fail. You can get around this by creating free a personal outlook.com account and sharing your exchange calendar with it.
You can view events for the week ahead and the events you have today. Your days events are updated every night at midnight and your week ahead is updated every hour on the dot.
The driver also provides variables for your next event and number of events today/in the week ahead which you can use in programming.
You can also use driver properties to setup notifications with C4! Simply enter how many minutes before an event you want the "Event Notification" action to be fired and then use Control4 programming to do anything you want! You can use the NOTIFIED_EVENT_ variables to program based of the title, description, location and time of the event.
All Features
Variables: Number of events today Number of All-Day events today Number of events in next 7 days Next Event details Notified Event details First All-Day event details (for today) Notification system – have a Composer action fired X minutes before each event and program based on the “Notified Event” variables. View your day’s events on any Control4 navigator View all upcoming events for the next week on any Control4 navigator Multiple driver instance support Access any calendar associated to a Google account Check for upcoming events at the start of every hour automatically Check for the day’s events every day at midnight automatically Only fetch events in a specified category (which can be chosen in the driver properties) Create events Use Cases
Announce all events 1 hour before they occur Send email/push notification out with number of events due today Announce number of events today and in the upcoming week along with your first event of the day Program Control4 commands based on event description, title and location Driver Download
You can download the driver from BlackWire Designs now! It makes use of BlackWire's Driver Manager so once you've set it up you will get automatic updates!
https://www.blackwiredesigns.com/store/control4-outlook-calendar/
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vstar reacted to Shivam Paw in Google Calendar Integration (View Events on Navs, Program Event Alerts & Event Variables)
Our latest driver brings Google Calendar integration to Control4!
You can view any of your calendars right from your Control4 navigator (iOS, Android, T3, OSDs) and view the events for them!
You can view events for the week ahead and the events you have today. Your days events are updated every night at midnight and your week ahead is updated every hour on the dot.
The driver also provides variables for your next event and number of events today/in the week ahead which you can use in programming.
You can also use driver properties to setup notifications with C4! Simply enter how many minutes before an event you want the "Event Notification" action to be fired and then use Control4 programming to do anything you want! You can use the NOTIFIED_EVENT_ variables to program based of the title, description, location and time of the event.
All Features
Variables: Number of events today Number of All-Day events today Number of events in next 7 days Next Event details Notified Event details First All-Day event details (for today) Notification system – have a Composer action fired X minutes before each event and program based on the “Notified Event” variables. View your day’s events on any Control4 navigator View all upcoming events for the next week on any Control4 navigator Multiple driver instance support Access any calendar associated to a Google account Check for upcoming events at the start of every hour automatically Check for the day’s events every day at midnight automatically Use Cases
Announce all events 1 hour before they occur Send email/push notification out with number of events due today Announce number of events today and in the upcoming week along with your first event of the day Program Control4 commands based on event description, title and location Driver Download
You can download the driver from BlackWire Designs now! It makes use of BlackWire's Driver Manager so once you've set it up you will get automatic updates!
https://www.blackwiredesigns.com/store/control4-google-calendar/
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vstar reacted to Jack_Ckun in Device appears offline to C4 but isn't
your ip is wrong in the screen shot. 129.168.1.12 and your pinging 192.168.1.12
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vstar got a reaction from South Africa C4 user in SR260 screen burn in
i do not own a sr260 that I can rip apart (i have 8 or so sr250's) to verify but after looking at the specifications of the display and looking at a picture of one with the case off it is possible this may be an inexpensive replacement display?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-77-inch-Full-Color-OLED-Screen-SSD1353-Drive-IC-160-128-Long-FPC/32829053322.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.1.2d9f4fd35D24vW&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10130_10068_318_5727318_10547_319_10548_10696_10084_10083_10618_452_10139_10307_532_204_10059_10884_10887_100031_320_10103_5727218,searchweb201603_1,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=bb444b1b-147c-463e-9fcd-f9709ae9e470-0&algo_pvid=bb444b1b-147c-463e-9fcd-f9709ae9e470&transAbTest=ae803_5&priceBeautifyAB=0
there is another thread with a tutorial on doing this on a sr250 with cracked display so it may be of some help with regards on opening the sr260?
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vstar reacted to neil12011 in Bids on remote programming
Dahua may be a large OEM, but if they have no interest in making the driver, Control4 likely may not make one. 3rd party driver creators fill this void, but at a cost. As far as who is honest/reputable/fair etc, look at the feedback on the "looking for a integrator" section. That'll be a good indicator of who's experienced, and reputable here. The forums tend to police themselves, so there aren't many if any "hacks" on the forums who do shoddy work.
The ones that I know of and have actually dealt with professionally:
Neil12011: Myself of course
Ak1
Matt Lowe
Ari (choppeddog) -Driver creator also
Msgreenf (Greenfield Solutions)- Driver creator also
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vstar reacted to alanchow in TP-Link Chowmain Driver
Yeah we made a driver for yeelight.
https://www.chowmainsoft.com/yeelight-control4
Driver auto discovers bulbs and auto configures itself to hide the modes it doesn't use. Eg white only bulbs hide the color and temperatures, temperature only ones hide color, etc.
Full two way feedback with instantaneous response, self healing, etc.
Made it stupidly cheap as well so it'll be a no brainer to invest in the driver (way cheaper than buying a philips hue bridge + bulbs even with the driver licence!)
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vstar reacted to alanchow in TP-Link Chowmain Driver
Yeelight have an open API which is why we can do so much with it in comparison to other products. It is 240v and 110v so please make sure you purchase the right one.
They have strips, bulbs, lamps and ceiling lights. I personally have a RGB strip, RGBW bulb and mono bulb. All dimmable.
Bulbs prices start at just above $10 USD
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-Original-Xiaomi-Mi-Smart-LED-Bulb-Yeelight-Wifi-Remote-Control-Adjustable-Brightness-Eyecare-Light-Smart/32736219908.html?src=google&albslr=221710193&isdl=y&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&source={ifdyn:dyn}{ifpla:pla}{ifdbm:DBM&albch=DID}&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=494-037-6276&isdl=y&albcp=1001731409&albag=50593269078&slnk=&trgt=304655778945&plac=&crea=en32736219908&netw=g&device=c&mtctp=&aff_platform=google&gclid=CjwKCAjwspHaBRBFEiwA0eM3kQSRTqxKCXCXzIA7UWicyI7IlhQQIyjhmNBFXTuTSH5YapAY1XOM5BoC42kQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
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vstar reacted to alanchow in TP-Link Chowmain Driver
For anybody reading this you can find out more about our TP-Link Suite of drivers below.
Integrated lighting is now stupidly affordable thanks to TP-Link with Wifi LED dimmable bulbs starting from $19.99 USD MSRP, Wifi smart plugs/outlets from $24.99 USD MSRP and in-wall switches from $39.99 USD MSRP.
Chowmain's new TP-Link Smart Home Suite of drivers for Control4 offers solid two way control/feedback over TP-Link's smart home devices with: Automatic Discovery Self Healing on IP Address change Ability to bind outlets to motorised devices Automatically hide color, saturation, and temperature depending on the bulb type Ability to change modes between Color, Temp, and Hue Allows control and feedback over On/Off Brightness Hue Saturation Color Temp Ability to connect driver to keypad buttons (with LED feedback) to allow for quick on/off/toggle programming Preset Level and Click Ramp Rate Support https://www.chowmainsoft.com/tplink-control4
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vstar got a reaction from Zuhair in Testing Advertising to Cover Site Expense
i have seen it mentioned in another thread but why not setup donations? anyone who has used any information from this site for their benefit at least once should be more than willing IMO to pony up $10? if any active user with over 5 posts did that i would think you would be set for covering your expenses for quite some time?
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vstar reacted to Synnetic in Sony Bravia TV - Mini Plex Driver
I've found none, so i modified the bravia_selector with plex icons...
1) Install app on TV if it is not already installed.
2) From Driver Actions in the main TV driver, run the ‘Build App URI Map’ action.
3) Add the Bravia Plex Selector mini driver to the project.
4) Bind the mini driver to an available RF_SONY_TV_APP Channel connection on the TV driver
5) Refresh Navigators
6) Execute the 'Get App List From TV' Action from the Driver Action Tab
7) Select the desired app from the 'Bravia App Selector' Property on the Driver Property Tab.
Once you make this selection the 'Bravia App' property will be populated with the app name and the driver will be renamed in the Project tree.
8) Refresh Navigators
sony_bravia_plex_selector.c4z
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vstar reacted to neil12011 in Testing Advertising to Cover Site Expense
Obviously I'll echo the above sentiments. This site has been immense in value personally and professionally for me. Take my money.
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vstar got a reaction from ecschnei in Testing Advertising to Cover Site Expense
i have seen it mentioned in another thread but why not setup donations? anyone who has used any information from this site for their benefit at least once should be more than willing IMO to pony up $10? if any active user with over 5 posts did that i would think you would be set for covering your expenses for quite some time?
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vstar got a reaction from Luke in Carrier Infinity with control4
ROFL, nice. I don't think their marketing people are doing a very good job
thanks for pointing it out.
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vstar reacted to Cyknight in Carrier Infinity with control4
~rolls eyes~
You're all SO behind in the times
https://homeation.com/category/HVAC
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vstar reacted to Cyknight in Removing Control4
Well for starters the amp model you mention in the first post is NOT the amp you have, you actually have a power (dumb) amp not a matrixed amp.
This actually makes your life easier.
EITHER use the global input for one sonos (and set each zone to use global with the switch)or add sonos to each input or if you want to combine a few zones you can use those outputs to jumper multiple zones together.
NOW the next thing is your sensitivity setting.
It would appear the amp is already jumpered to always be on, BUT the trigger is set to off. Ie that jumper doesn't do anything yet. Set sensitivity to the middle, move the trigger switch and adjust as needed for average volume. Your Sonos will then handle the volume control.
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vstar reacted to annex⁴ in annex⁴ - Voice Genie (TTS)
We are pleased to announce the full release of our text-to-speech driver. This driver offers an astonishing number of voices and languages.
You can inject variables in to the announcements and even have an event to trigger upon announcement end.
As with all of our drivers there is a 21 day trial.
For full details follow the link.
https://annex4.link/drivers/voice-genie
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vstar reacted to eggzlot in Inexpensive shades or blinds?
I believe the somfy/Bali branded blinds from Lowe’s, Home Depot or jc penny’s will work with the proper somfy hub and or driver. I did some research awhile ago and will try to find some old info.
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vstar reacted to VINCELdUB in Testing Advertising to Cover Site Expense
I would love the opportunity to donate. Is there a way to set this up? Perhaps open another thread with a link. This site has both generated income for me, and it's helped me solve problems for myself and my clients.
Happy Automating!!
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vstar reacted to Simplyj303 in Remote Programming etc for you DIY Guys
Hello All,
I also wanted to say thank you to Andrzej and Coolabode.com. I had moved into a house that had a control4 system and struggled to find a local dealer that would give me the time of day. Being new to Control4 I really like what the system can do and wanted to grow my home automation system. I had surfed this site for a couple of months and finally pulled the trigger on purchasing two divers that I needed. Andrezj helped me install the Kodi Full driver and Amazon Fire TV driver, the service was amazing. They contacted me the same day and was able to do the install that night. This was mind blowing as the dealers I had contacted before took over a week to get back to me. Andrezj was able to remote in, install the driver and confirm that everything worked in less than an hour. If you have the FireTV and like Kodi I highly recommend these two drivers, its takes the FTV/Kodi experience to the next level. Especially if you have the 7" tablet, you can watch your show and surf your collection at the same time. This experience has renewed my faith in the Control4 platform, as I was getting nervous after dealing with the local dealers in my area. I highly recommend Andrzej and Coolabode.com and will certainly be using them in my future. I really appreciate the quick turn around time, the communication and the over all service that I received. Thank you so much.
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vstar reacted to Cinegration in New Driver: Battery Agent
Now available: Battery Agent!
Automatically monitor all battery devices in a Control4 project with automatic emails! Installs in a little as 2 minutes!
Features:
Monitors battery levels of Sr250, Sr260, Sr150, Card Access Equipment, Nyce Equipment, Kwikset, Yale, Black&Decker, Control4 thermostat, QMotion Shades, C&S (Dammit) Water Sensors.
Has 'smart-notification' algorithm that will only notify the customer either in the morning, afternoon or evening of any low battery events. No more 'late-night' texts or alerts. Handles all the communication and event monitoring.
Sends separate emails or text messages to a Service department or Customer.
Support for Critical and Low Battery events
Supports Cinegration Trial and Showroom License.
Enjoy! https://www.houselogix.com/shop/battery-agent
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vstar reacted to alanchow in Chowmain - No Control Video Game Pack
Chowmain - Video Game Integration
OS 2.9 introduced experience buttons. This allowed us to add icons to Control4's navigator user interface. It also allowed us to create what is called 'no control devices'. These devices when selected do not display any transport controls on the user interface. Control4 has done a good job in making a few of the more common devices. We have utilised the no control experience buttons to integrate EVERY video game console ever made. Combine it with the Chowmain Belkin WeMo Insight driver and have the system automatically turn on when the video game console powers up and have the whole system turn off when the console turns off.
The following video game consoles have been integrated.
Arcade Games Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Atari Jaguar Colecovision Microsoft Xbox Microsoft Xbox 360 Microsoft Xbox One Microsoft Xbox Series S Microsoft Xbox Series X NEC PC Engine NEC TurboGrafx Nintendo Entertainment System Super Nintendo Nintendo 64 Nintendo Gamecube Nintendo Wii Nintendo Wii U Odyssey Philips CD-i Sega Master System Sega Master System II Sega Mega Drive Sega Genesis Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Sony Playstation Sony PSONE Sony Playstation 2 Sony Playstation 3 Sony Playstation 4 Sony Playstation 5 Sony PS Vita TV SNK Neo Geo FAQ
Can you give us some examples of how we could use this driver?
Make your user interface nicer by adding the correct icons for their video game consoles. The icons when selected will switch to the correct input and will NOT display any controls. Combined with WeMo Insight Switches and our Belkin Wemo driver you can turn on the video game console using your controller and have Control4 automatically turn on the system to the right inputs. Turn off the console using the console's controller or power button and have Control4 automatically turn the room off. All of this is done via power sensing through the outlet. Why do you only support OS 2.9 and above?
This driver is reliant on a new proxy introduced in OS 2.9.0
How do I find out more information about the driver?
Please see the links below for more information about the driver.
Chowmain Website
How do I buy the driver?
This driver is developed by Chowmain software & apps and is distributed and supported by DriverCentral
Download Driver / Purchase Licence
Do you provide trial licences?
All Chowmain drivers for Control4 come with a 90 day trials. This is activated once you add the driver to the project. No additional steps are necessary.