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The driver should normally restart the timer to its full duration if a new motion is sensed while the timer is already running.

Please open a support ticket on DriverCentral so we can properly investigate this.

Paul

NYCE motion sensors often do not have a CONTACT_SENSOR connection and require you to use programming to trigger the Advanced Lighting Timer ('When Motion Sensor senses motion -> Activate Contact n').  How are you doing this in your specific setup ?

Also, the best place to start is to set EASY CONFIG to 'Motion Sensor...'  this sets the important properties.  Specifically, 'End Function' should be set to 'Full Duration after Contact is Reversed'.

Paul

Announcing a new driver from Domosapiens

** CONTROL BLINDS DIRECTLY FROM ADVANCED LIGHTING SCENES **

This Advanced Lighting Extender driver is used to directly control blinds, relays and simulate contacts from Advanced Lighting Scenes, providing powerful new capabilities to Control4 Advanced Lighting. You may control this driver’s virtual light in Scenes et use it to control a Target Blind, setting it to the same level as the light (several options are provided). This works both ways and a blind movement via its own driver will be captured by this driver and the virtual light level will be modified accordingly.

Relays may also be used to control other types of devices and Contacts may trigger other drivers in the project.

The driver is available on DriverCentral at Advanced Lighting Extender

When a scene is to be activated, its light levels take precedence.

1 hour ago, Mike_S101 said:

Hi Paul, i would like to check if i understand the advanced lighting scenes, if i wanted to activate scenes at the different times would it then look like this? Assuming you had two advanced lighting scenes on A and B 

D+45=0%,N-45=A,N+60=B

 

Yes, exactly.  There is an Action 'Print Simulation Report' which summarizes what will happen at various times during the day.

Actually, with the Advanced Lighting Timer, you can do this with one Light On Level specification: D+45=0%,N-45=50%,N+60=95%

When using D/N ((Daytime and Nighttime) in the specification, view this as a continuous circular specification.  From 45 minutes after sunrise (D+45), the light will not come on (0%).  From 45 minutes before sunset (N-45) to 60 minutes after sunset (N+60), the light will come on at 50% (or whatever you want).  From 60 minutes after sunset, the light will come on at 95% until the next time specified in a circular way, which is D+45 (45 minutes after sunrise).  Using 95% instead of 100% is barely noticeable, but it allows the user to override the timer by turning the light ON manually, which is usually 100%.

Paul

The driver supports this as tested by @BY96

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But just so I am clear, when a button is identified as a Selector in Properties for the driver, it does not respond to single, double, triple, taps, correct? It is limited to events just based on being active? 

When you have a single Selector button, multi taps are not supported, as it would defeat the purpose.  When you have several selector buttons, I believe each supports multiple taps and appropriate events are triggered.  Please verify, just in case.

Paul

@BY96  The Keypad Enhancer driver has events which are triggered when a Selector becomes active (1, 2, 3, ...).  These events are at the very bottom of the list in Programming.

@BY96The Keypad Audio Control driver does have the ability to associate the Up/Down keys to other buttons than the Selector button.  Look in the driver's documentation, in the section KEYPAD TRACKING.  This was introduced in V11.0.0.  The current version is 11.0.4.

Paul

Unfortunately not.  There is no way for the Keypad Enhancer driver to be notified of changes in the physical keypad.

7 hours ago, BY96 said:

Quick question about the Keypad Enhancer driver... Can I use both single/double/triple tapping and "press and hold" on the same button, or are they mutually exclusive? I see both options provided in the events list, but I noticed that in the driver properties, you have to setup each button as "N" or "H", making me think it is tapping or press/hold but not both

If you set the button type to 'N', you may use the Single/Double/Triple taps (based on the 'MultiPress Used' property) as well as Press and Hold (and even Double and Triple Press and Hold).  The appropriate events will be triggered.  The 'H' button type is used when you want a different paradigm: two actions on a button (Single Tap or Press and Hold) to trigger two different events.  Folks coming to Control4 from Vantage are used to these two actions on a same button.

Actually, you could trick this by connecting the driver’s button 5 to another button on the physical keypad…

33 minutes ago, time2jet said:

I wish there was a way to choose which key.

Please explain.

This driver has been designed as a front end to the Control4 Room Control driver.  It is therefore intended to manage a single room, but it may be connected to more than one keypad in that room.

There is also the possibility to 'capture' audio from another room and listen to it in the driver's designated room.

We do have another driver (Keypad Enhancer) which supports pressing both Up/Down buttons with related Events. This driver also has many other functions, such as a selector capability.

You could likely do what you want to do with a combination of the Keypad Enhancer driver, the Control4 Room Control driver and some programming.  

Announcing a new Version (V11) of our very powerful Advanced Lighting Selector driver.

New features: selectable Driver Capabilities with simpler startup point, new NUM and BOOL variables, new Room conditional

The driver is available on DriverCentral at Advanced Lighting Selector

Again, special thanks to @South Africa C4 user for his insightful suggestions and his testing.

Paul

Announcing a new version of our Keypad Pages driver, now even more powerful:

⦁    Ability to have up to 7 ‘virtual’ pages for each keypad, thus significantly expanding the number of buttons available. 
⦁    An optional Menu page is also available for easier navigation
⦁    Pages can be selected by the user (navigation) or via Programming and Actions
⦁    Keypad LEDs are managed automatically based on the Page selected, Color properties and the state of connected devices
⦁    The keypad may automatically revert to the Menu page or to Page A after a selectable timeout
⦁    All keypad button actions and ‘clients’ are supported
⦁    (*NEW*) Slave keypads may be controlled by a master keypad so that they are synchronized 
⦁    Special normally hidden pages may be activated easily, such as Guests, Party or Support. 
⦁    An Up/Down Tracking facility is available to have the Up and Down buttons track to the last button pressed with optional LED feedback
⦁    When Tracking, an optional 8th button is available via simultaneously pressing the Up and Down buttons (Domosapiens exclusive)
⦁    A Special Double Tap facility is available to simplify Single Tap/Double Tap processing
⦁    (*NEW*) A Night Mode (activated by programming) allows the keypad to be dark until a key is pressed.
⦁    (*NEW*) The keypad’s Backlight may be managed by the driver and optionally used to indicate which page is currently active.
⦁    Page names may be specified for easier reference in Connections, Programming and Actions
⦁    An additional passthrough (ALL) Connection is always available, regardless of the Page selected
⦁    Supports the Domosapiens Keypad Load Simulator driver for simpler programming.
 

The driver is available on DriverCentral at: Keypad Pages

With special thanks to @South Africa C4 user for his many suggestions and his thorough testing.

Paul

Pressing the Sessions button on most interfaces will tell you what is being used and where.  Using the Source Pooling driver takes care of selecting 'the next available device'.

This is handled outside of the driver and I am not aware of any programming facility to turn this Off and On.

Paul

The Domosapiens driver to use with the Aprilaire 8840 is: Domosapiens Aprilaire WiFi Driver

You need one driver per thermostat.  If one of your thermostats has some WiFi communications issues, verify that both thermostats are on the same firmware level (shows at power up).  If not, you might contact Aprilaire and ask that they update the firmware to the most recent level.

@RAV Your suggestion makes sense to help dealers better understand  the driver which is indeed complex (because it can do so many things).  However adding a second pared down driver would make things more difficult to synchronize in the future. I have therefore decided to take your example and add a QUICK START section at the very beginning of the documentation.  Can't be missed!

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QUICK START – A SIMPLE EXAMPLE

Ask: the client wants to use one keypad button to activate/deactivate a Lighting Scene during the day and a different Lighting Scene at night.  The keypad button LED must show the state of the Scene.

Solution: 

⦁    Install the driver.  Do not modify any properties other than the ones outlined below.

⦁    In Agents/Advanced Lighting, create the Daytime and the Nighttime Lighting Scenes to turn on the required light(s) at the required level(s).  Also create the Default Toggle Scene for each.  As you have modified the Scenes setup, run the driver’s Action ‘Refresh Advanced Lighting Scenes’.

⦁    Use the properties Select Advanced Lighting Scene A to point to your Daytime Scene and Select Advanced Lighting Scene B to point to your Nighttime Scene.

⦁    Set the Control Logic When Activating/ON property to: d = A ; n = B   This means that the first program will activate Scene A during daytime (lowercase d) and the second program will activate Scene B during nighttime (lowercase n).

⦁    Connect the driver’s Toggle Button Link L to the desired keypad button.  You may modify the properties for Keypad LED Active/ON Color and Keypad LED Inactive/OFF Color if you wish.

You are done!  Now, read on…
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I hope this will be helpful and point dealers in the right direction.

Paul

P.S. to ALL: Do have a look at the driver's Action to '** Print ALS Reports', especially the Cross Reference report which was asked for in these forums just a few weeks ago.

ANNOUNCING THE NEW DOMOSAPIENS ADVANCED LIGHTING SELECTOR DRIVER

This driver is used to dynamically select and activate/deactivate Advanced Lighting Scenes, based on simple or elaborate Control Logic you define in Properties.  When requested (triggered) by the user, Scene selection may be controlled by time of day as well as the state of several conditions: other lights or scenes, blinds, security partitions, contacts, day of week, ambient lighting, and programming variables.  This is intended to be very flexible and powerful, yet easy to specify.

In addition, with its extensive ALS Reports, this driver may be used to document all elements of Advanced Lighting Scenes in a Project (something that Composer does not yet provide), as well as produce a comprehensive Cross Reference list of Scenes, Lights and Rooms.

The driver can be found at Advanced Lighting Selector on Drivercentral

For each such Zone you wish to use in programming, you need to add a standard Control4 Sensor and connect it to the Zone.  Refer to the driver's documentation where this is discussed.

Paul

Pressing a Macro button is currently only available via a programming command in the main HAI driver.  

To circumvent this, you might try assigning an unused HAI unit (which creates a RELAY if its name is prefixed with &) and in the HAI programming itself, press Macro Button x when this special unit is activated.  In fact, if you have an HAI unit activating your garage door, you might not even need the Macro Button.   Simply bind the RELAY corresponding to that HAI unit to the Control4 Relay Garage Door Controller.  This Garage Door Controller driver probably has all the smarts/options required to operate your garage door properly.

Nobody has ever asked to create RELAY units for activating Macro Buttons in the driver.  I'll investigate how this could be done.

Paul 

If these are units in PC Access, yes prefixing their names with '&' will cause the driver to generate RELAY bindings which you can then use within Control4.

In addition, if you operate the garage door within HAI with Buttons, these may also be operated directly from Control4 using the driver's Device Specific Command 'Press Macro Button'.