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Thank you for your response. I wasn't trying to double post as I originally responded to the A.6 post and not the one for the A.6x. I figured it was appropriate to ask a question about the driver since a post was made about it.

I've spent several hours trying to troubleshoot before posting this and I could use some help from one of you geniuses. To start, I can't get the driver to auto locate the amps for the life of me. I entered the MAC for each amp into the driver but couldn't ever get it to connect. I then manually assigned static IPs at the router level to each zone, but even those connections drop in Composer. I have a Control4 audio matrix in the mix (not the Triad one). How should the connections be mapped in Composer? Something like this: C4 Matrix Output --> Generic Local Driver Input Generic Local Driver Output --> VSSL Zone Input I don't have the generic driver in place right now, and I've already found that I can't listen to certain inputs from the C4 matrix. The C4 app shows that it's playing but nothing comes out of the speakers and I assume it's trying to send it over a different input. I've also found that the default audio level for a room in Composer wants to take over when a stream is sent straight to the VSSL amp. I try to bump up the volume in the Google Home app, and it'll go up a little, but I have to go into the C4 app to get it where I want it to be. I have the inputs for the VSSL set to a fixed level. Is that correct? Any help is appreciated!

I've spent several hours trying to troubleshoot before posting this and I could use some help from one of you geniuses. To start, I can't get the driver to auto locate the amps for the life of me. I entered the MAC for each amp into the driver but couldn't ever get it to connect. I then manually assigned static IPs at the router level to each zone, but even those connections drop in Composer. I have a Control4 audio matrix in the mix (not the Triad one). How should the connections be mapped in Composer? Something like this: C4 Matrix Output --> Generic Local Driver Input Generic Local Driver Output --> VSSL Zone Input I don't have the generic driver in place right now, and I've already found that I can't listen to certain inputs from the C4 matrix. The C4 app shows that it's playing but nothing comes out of the speakers and I assume it's trying to send it over a different input. I've also found that the default audio level for a room in Composer wants to take over when a stream is sent straight to the VSSL amp. I try to bump up the volume in the Google Home app, and it'll go up a little, but I have to go into the C4 app to get it where I want it to be. I have the inputs for the VSSL set to a fixed level. Is that correct? Any help is appreciated!

If anyone has any thoughts on this, they would be greatly appreciated! I'd love to have a Christmas sound of some type play through the house when the doorbell is pressed. I just wish I knew more about this stuff.

I just want to follow up on this as I'm wanting to do this again. Is it possible to wire one of the relays on my HC-800 to the Nest Hello chime adapter to get this to work? As of today, I don't have my doorbell chime working with the Nest Hello because we have plenty of Google devices in the house to announce the doorbell event. However, I know an adapter comes with the Nest Hello so an existing doorbell chime can ding when the button is pressed as well. I don't know if this is a big no-no or why it would/wouldn't work. I'd love to get some fun sounds to play over the whole home audio system for the holidays. Any help is appreciated!

I have a damper system in my home, which allows me to use one AC and furnace for three separate zones. When one zone needs air and the others don't, the dampers close for the other two and the one zone gets the air it needs. The dampers are connected to a controller that is connected to three separate Nest thermostats, with one for each zone. The bonus room is above the garage and is its own zone. It gets really warm up there during the summer months, and I choose not to turn on the AC because it cycles on and off so much throughout the day because it cools so quickly. Is there a way to have Control4 turn on the AC in the bonus room only when the AC turns on for one of the other levels? That way, both dampers will open and the bonus room will ride out an existing cycle rather than starting and stopping its own. I'm trying to reduce unnecessary wear and tear if possible while also keeping the room at a decent temperature. I've looked at the variables available for the Nest thermostats but am not familiar with what information they give me and what I can do with them. Any help is appreciated!

Thank you! I'll give this a shot and see how it goes. Any concerns with me using one contact and relay to feed more than one amp? Awesome. Thank you!

Thanks, @mujtaba.khokhar. Bear with me as I'm not too familiar with IFTTT, but I don't see anything related to the Nest Hello doorbell. I've also searched in Composer for any kind of driver but haven't been able to find anything. If you have any ideas, please let me know. I'd prefer to trigger the announcement via IP if possible because I might be losing all of my contacts to another project I'm working on. Thanks again!

I've been wanting to get the triggers on my amps working for a few reasons. I'm still unclear of a few things and any help that can be provided is appreciated. I have an HC-800 as my controller, two Control4 audio matrices, and four 12-channel amps with triggers. If it helps, the amps are the TruAudio A75 amps. I have only used the audio sensing on the amps in the past, so as of today, the amps don't exist in the Control4 programming but everything works fine. Can I use a single relay on the controller for more than one amp if I need to? I understand that I'll turn on both amps when the trigger fires but I just want to make sure the circuitry won't get anything. I'm already using two of the relays for garage door sensors and I only have two others available. I've only used audio sensing in the past and didn't necessarily associate specific zones with specific amps but I'll try to clean it up and group things as much as possible. Is there a generic amp driver that I can use to bind the connections in Composer? I need a contact and relay for each trigger, correct? @kylejdavies, can you walk me through the wiring? Thanks again!

Can you point me to how this would need to be wired to trigger an announcement through Control4? That's the only functionality I'm after right now. Thank you!

I've been trying to figure out how to use Google Assistant devices with my whole home audio system that is managed by Control4. I've tried to research how others are dealing with this lack of functionality and haven't come up with much other than replacing amplifiers or trying to find some EOL'd Google Chromecast Audios. Having already invested in very nice hardware that only seems to lack this functionality, my goal is to add to my existing system rather than replace components. All that I'm after is, "Hey Google...play (this song)" and have it play on the much larger speakers in the room using the default music service configured in the Google Assistant. After doing some testing, I found something that can work. I took a Chromecast with an HDMI output, connected it to an HDMI audio extractor, and then took the stereo output into the input on my Control4 audio matrix. In Composer, I configured the audio matrix port to switch the audio source for the room when audio is sensed. I then configured the Google device to use the Chromecast as the default music speaker, and when using Google Assistant to play a specific song, everything works beautifully. I am now trying to figure out the best way to deal with the volume levels. Control4 has its own levels for the room, but the Chromecast also has its own controls. When using the Google Assistant to change the volume level, it changes the volume of the default music speaker, ultimately being the Chromecast in this example. To address this problem, one thought was to have Control4 set the volume of the room to something like 80 when the Chromecast is the source. This way, the volume level doesn't have to change through Control4 and the Chromecast can ultimately set the volume level. Is there a downside to this approach? By all means, please feel free to poke holes in this setup and educate me if there are other options available. It's amazing to me that more hardware solutions aren't available for what I'm after, but maybe people aren't chasing it as much as I'd think. Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you!

Any thoughts on this?

Any chance that you can post some screenshots? Also, are you using a specific driver for this, or just the standard voice scenes? Thank you!

Is it possible to have Control4 play an announcement when the Nest Hello button is pressed? I thought I could do this with IFTTT, but I don't know what's possible anymore as I haven't been following the latest with IFTTT and Google integrations. Thank you!

I can try to help here. Are you wanting both zones to play the same source from the start, or are you trying to add a zone after the first zone starts to play? If the latter, it can be done through the Control4 app just by adding the room to the existing audio stream.