South Africa C4 user

While you wait for Alan’s development (which I know will be top notch), you may want to try the Yatun Temperature Display Driver. It allows you to do what you are after. I have 12 of these in a separate variable room (to view and control 12 variables) and three experience buttons, one of which cycles through which variable I want to change and two of which increase / decrease the variable in question...

It was touch and go both ways! Fortunately time heals!

Most likely

The easiest way is to create a toggle scene in advanced lighting and then use the toggle command. I think from your post that you have done the second half of this but not the first?

It certainly works well and the Amazon Polly TTS engine is great! @Gary Leeds UK: a couple of hints on programming: 1. Create a separate announcement (polly1, polly2 etc.) for every different set of rooms you want audio to play in. E.g. I am looking at PollyWholeHouse, PollyOutside, PollyBedrooms, PollyUpstairs, PollyDownstairs and PollyMainBedroom 2. I find it useful to put the Polly execution in a macro and use a string variable for what Polly says. E.g. a simple set of commands for me would be: -> PollyString = ‘Good night sir” (after all, no one else calls me sir) -> execute PollyMainBedroom macro where PollyString is a string variable I created and my PollyMainBedroom macro includes the following two commands: -> PollyAnnouncement (PollyString,,,,,) using the PollyMainBedroom driver -> Execute PollyMainBedroom announcement Excuse the syntax which is all wrong as I am not in front of my PC but you get the idea. What I have described above is way more complex than necessary but makes it very versatile for future programming. Injecting variables into the string is easy and you can do something funky things as Eddy has pointed out. I’ve even tried emailing my personal Gmail account with a message titled “C4 Polly” and have it speak the body of the email... Using Alan’s IFTTT driver to get the email into a string via Pushover. This freaked my wife out... probably because I sat at the office and emailed “I’m watching you” which then was played through our bedroom speakers . That almost spelled the end of my relationship with C4!

Good question... I believe intellicenter has now been launched (November) although I can't find it on Pentairs site but can find YouTube' videos of it...

Fair point although I had 2 installed and setup like this in my first house (must be more than 10 years back) and they are still working (or, at least, were 2 months ago). I also have 2 or 3 setup like this in my current house but they are only 4 years old.

If they work now, the 'dimmer' is unlikely to stop working for these bulbs... Be careful when you replace them as that is when issues may arise.

If it works now, there should be no real issue awaiting you unless you change the bulb to something non-dimmable that also does not work with the hack to make a dimmer behave as a switch.

So for someone on 2.9.1, the following applies: Right arrow should be nesting... Yes, you can have multiple ifs. They can be nested or not. If not nested, then they will happen one after the other unless you use a stop statement in which case if the execution gets to the stop statement (due to the relevant condition being true) then no further lines of code will be executed.

On 2.9.1 you can use the stop statement nested under an if then whatever you code after the if will essentially be an else...

Right arrow should be nesting... Yes, you can have multiple ifs. They can be nested or not. If not nested, then they will happen one after the other unless you use a stop statement or else (os2.10 only).

Dealer should be figuring out why it is crashing rather than simply rebooting to solve the problem. There are various ways to reboot including a couple of drivers that will let you do this from the navigator. However, the real key here is have the dealer solve the (very) frustrating root problem.

@alanchow - it appears that every optima one reboots the director, one needs to re-enter ones Pushover detail (username and password). Is there a way to avoid this?

Ha! Never thought of that!

Thanks Alan... I will double check with my dealer (although I’d be surprised if he was running a driver with my login details I’ll also monitor and fiddle for the next few weeks and see if I can figure out what is happening.

Definitely a great companion to C4rather than a competition... Hopefully all this development will make them a better companion to C4 (e.g. by allowing C4 to identify which Echo sends it input).

This has been one of my favorite drivers for the last year! However, since updating to OS2.10 and the driver central version of the driver (admittedly I did both within 24 hours of each other so I am not sure which change caused the issue), I have found that this driver stops working every couple of days. It seems to be the Pushover connection that breaks. It is an easy (but irritating) fix. All that we do to fix it is re-enter my Pushover details and hey presto everything works again. Is anyone else ( @alanchow ) experiencing the same problem? I am wondering if this is some sort of timeout due to lack of use; however, if so, it must be quite a short time out as we use the driver to open our blinds every morning and close them every night (I.e. twice a day every day). We also use it for triggering playlists etc. but that is not quite as regular / frequent. I did find that I had a similar problem previously (when the driver was first launched) with the driver losing connections if not used for 1 or 2 weeks. Thus every time we went away on holiday, we came back and had to re-enter our Pushover details. We fixed this by having the driver send out a message to IFTTT twice a week when the system is in holiday mode and IFTTT return a message to C4 on receipt of this. I am wondering if I should try doing this once every 6 hours... not sure if it will fix the problem and also not a clean fix if it does!

Thanks Alan! It is working perfectly.

I see that my drivers (DriverCentral) have all updated today but could not see anything different. I assume that means that a dealer is needed to add a new driver?

Sounds great... will this appear as a separate driver (like chunk.io was) or as part of your email driver?

That sounds really great! Will there be more functionality on this than with the current drivers? Any idea when the IntelliCenter will be available?

Have you tried dropping the advanced audio setting by one level?

Rats... this is rather frustrating. So I second the support for you developing a service to replace chunk.io My dealer updated all my Chowmain drivers and a couple of others to DriverCentral... took him a good couple of hours. The IFTTT Maker driver stalled after he did the updates and is currently not working. Is there a known issue? My dealer will be back tomorrow and I am missing some of my Alexa control (Alexa, trigger fix this driver please).

Every now and then I get really confused and feel like I must be missing something obvious!