zzattack

Apologies for the intrusion. Let me say first of all that I am unfortunately not familiar with Control4 as a company or software. I created some software and figured if there's anybody who'd benefit from knowing of its existence, they likely gathered here.

I had a need for a simple component matrix switcher and ended up finding a used Zektor Prowler 8x8 matrix for less money than what a new simple 4:2 would've set me back.

Upon receiving the unit I was amazed by the level of control and customization offered by the device. If as they say, real men don't read instructions, then surely an exception for such a device is warranted. I could foresee myself tirelessly refering to the manual whenever I'd want to change some of the config, and since the device features full control over a serial protocol I set out to put together a 'quick' application that would let me do most of the important configuration stuff from the user interface of a good old computer program.

Three days later the simple application escalated to a full implementation of everything I could think of, and then some:

• Per-zone separate audio/video input selection, delay switching and muting
• Full per-zone audio control including volume attenuator, bass/treble adjustment, 5-band equalizer, stereo mix down mode selection and digital audio routing options
• Allow assigning custom names to zones and inputs
• Lip sync control, both per zone or per input
• Allows global control of power, master volume
• Support communication both over TCP/IP and serial/COM port
• IP address management and other advanced config controls
• Front panel LED brightness management for 3 different modes
• Support for both 'classic' (analog/digital audio separated) and 'auto conversion' modes
• Support for both checksum and checksum-less commands
• Full use of optimal channel bitmaps wherever possible
• Fancy command logger with syntax highlighting and hover-tooltips

Quick overview of the main screens:

Source code is freely available at https://github.com/zzattack/zektor.

Download at https://github.com/zzattack/zektor/releases/tag/release-v1.0

Comments and improvement suggestions are of course welcomed.