Benoît van Osch

Thanks Rav for the overview, very much appreciate the effort. Shelly sounds like a good alternative for people that dont want to share account information with third parties so I will look into that. Separate question I have is around the possibility of knowing what Alexa device is spoken to in a multi-Alexa household. Do you know if there is a way to get this information to Control4 so that e.g. when I say 'good-night' in a certain bedroom, some logic can trigger different routines / logic dependent on the Alexa device spoken to n order to switch of lights, TV, etc in that room?

Thanks, I’ve been reading through the documentation but wasn’t sure if I had to use HA or IFTTT as a bridge between VM and C4. Are you saying that the TCP driver can communicate directly with VM and get its full capability?

Thank you for the recommendation. What do you mean with calling it from the TCP driver? Please could you explain a bit more on how to set this up with Alexa and Control4 for it to show as trigger events in Alexa.

The Kasa plug is still fully controllable by Alexa but Alexa does not allow its dimming value to be used as a routine trigger event. I am looking for a way to trigger Alexa speech by using an input from Control4. It would take home automation to the next level.

Hi Rick, does this still work and if so would you mind sharing the details? I bought 2 Kasa modules recently to achieve this functionality but that doesn’t seem to be supported by Amazon anymore.

Are you also using the Kasa plug and if so what did you install on the Alexa side for it to show up under events? How is your plug configured in Alexa, as a plug or as a light? Maybe changing it to a light in the device settings in Alexa will enable the dimming settings. Also, do you know if I need to use the Kasa plug device that is discovered from control4 or the one that is discovered from Alexa directly itself? I have two showing in Alexa. Any help on how I can get this to show in Alexa events will be hugely appreciated as I purchased two of these module from the US specifically for this functionality and don’t seem to be able to get it configured to show as events…

I can’t get the Kasa plug to show in there, it only shows my echo devices. Is there anything else required to set up for it to show there?

Yes can control it in the Alexa app, it has been discovered and is added as a device in the Alexa app. I am just not able to create a routine event for the Kasa plug, it is not showing in the smart home section for events. Is this where you do see the Kasa Plug?

Hi Rav, any idea why I am not seeing the Kasa plug as a programmable smart home event in Alexa?

I have now installed and configured the TP-Link Kasa module and have it working from Control4 to Alexa but dont seem to be able to use the Kasa Plug as a When event in Alexa. I was expecting the Kasa Plug to show in the Smart Home section of the when events but can only see my echo devices in here and not the smart plug. Any ideas what is missing here?

Curious to know if development has moved on in regards to C4 being able to trigger Alexa commands and if not if someone can help me with the button workaround that seems to have worked.

Control4 driver is up-to-date and just checked DoorBird as well and also seems to be on the latest version. It’s really weird because snapshots work in the pop-up of the driver but it looks like they are not stored properly. When door bell is pressed and snapshot emailed then the URL copied in my earlier post takes me to a very old snapshot from years ago.

To add to this, when I press the 'Get Snapshat URL' button then I get the status message: 'URL obscured by the driver developer/manufacturer. Contact them for further support'. When I copy the URL in the Lua log (http://192.168.xx.xx/bha-api/history.cgi?index=1&event=doorbell&http-user=ghfpba0002&http-password=XXXXXXXXXX) then I see a very old picture. Any ideas are more then welcome.

I have the same problem with no Doorbird message included in the push notification. All other functionality of the doorbirdv2 driver seems to work well, I can watch the video stream in C4 app, etc but snapshots are not send. When I test the snapshot and video in the C4 system design of the Doorbirdv2 driver then also reported successful. I have been trying to get this working in the last 4 hours but no success. Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.

What is the native driver called? I couldn’t find one.