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13 hours ago, chopedogg88 said:

 

Anyone know of a good and reliable way to play music in an office building 24/7 via Control4?

 

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Check out the "customchannels" service. It's on the blue sound pro stuff and pretty sure the regular blue sound stuff too. 

https://www.customchannels.net/

https://www.bluesoundprofessional.com/

3 hours ago, Benoît van Osch said:

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.

Take a look at the documentation. In short, you create a trigger in voicemonkey which appears as a doorbell in Alexa. Create a routine in Alexa for when your voicemonkey routine triggers. Call it via the API (or webhook) they provide using the chowmain generic tcp driver. 

20 minutes ago, Benoît van Osch said:

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. 

Try voicemonkey. You can call it from the tcp driver. 

https://voicemonkey.io/help

4 minutes ago, chopedogg88 said:

It is possible to trigger an announcement out to Josh devices from Control4, using the Generic TCP driver and a Josh scene. For example I set it up for a client who wanted to have his micros play a doorbell announcement when someone pressed the button on his Ring doorbell. This also required the Ring driver for C4 of course.  Not sure if that's what you're referring to or not. 

Thanks Ari. I didn't even think of using the tcp driver. I'll have to give it a shot. Right now I'm doing it with Josh scenes watching some dummy switches but it's quickly becoming unmanageable. 

Just now, dblessing said:

You mention Josh scenes and Josh announcements, but if I understand correctly, the mentioned driver doesn't involved Josh at all?

Also, the driver requires internet access to execute the announcements each time, right? Usually that should be fine but it would be great to have the peace of mind that announcements would execute regardless of internet or cloud services. 

One idea I had, but I haven't tried yet, is to make a recording of Josh saying something, then upload that to C4 as an announcement. This *might* work because you can tell Josh, "Say 'Here is some text'" and Josh will happily repeat that for you. 

Correct, this driver doesn't require Josh at all. It does require Internet access. There are text to speech sites you can download wav files from to use for announcements if You're concerned about Internet access. 

2 minutes ago, dblessing said:

Interesting. I haven't used audio announcements yet but will keep an ear out for that problem. 

Not to get too far off topic, but where do you source your audio files for announcements? Do you record something? One thing I'd love to be able to do is have Josh make a verbal announcement but I don't think it's possible. 

Next best thing to creating josh scenes to trigger josh announcements:

https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/text-to-speech-driver/

Absolutely love this driver and love not having to upload canned announcements. 

One thing to note if you go down this path - Google has multiple voices to choose. The standard voices are free but you will eventually pay usage on the "studio" voices.

I hope that Josh adds a native feature to push announcements from c4 in the future. 

Thanks!

Anyone else having issues with push notifications this morning?

Pretty sure I read somewhere that essential switches only have a blue led (no other colors). 

1 minute ago, BY96 said:

This driver is specific for this purpose:

https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/utility/apple-shortcuts/

You can also use:

https://drivercentral.io/platforms/control4-drivers/utility/generic-tcp-command-control4-driver-chowmain/

@BY96 beat me to it

15 minutes ago, ILoveC4 said:

Doing some programming...thinking about the ability to set a variable in Control4 via Apple Shortcuts. Has anyone done this? I'm just thinking through the best approach. Thinking the web events driver maybe...

I'm not an apple guy so I can't speak to what you can trigger. But I do this from numerous devices inbound to c4 using the generic tcp driver from chowmain..

@avtexan did something similar using the magic buttons driver.

1 hour ago, BY96 said:

I have Kasa plugs and Chowmain driver too, but I don't have any push notifications related to them. 

We use them mostly on washers and dryers and Kohler digital showers. This is one of the only 2 nits I have with the driver - the first being voice announcements 4 hours later after a reboot, and the second being no decimal ability for power monitoring (4 or 5, not 4.2 - whole numbers only). Other than that, the power monitoring is awesome.  

Same thing happens to me after a reboot with Kasa plugs setup for power monitoring.

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They are wifi. 

12 minutes ago, Andrew luecke said:

Honestly, I'd recommend the Shelly RGBW2 over Govee. Whilst it's not wired in, we have a lot of people using it, and in my experience they're fairly reliable (I actually use one at my own place)

 

Andy

I'll second the rgbw2 with the chowmain agent. I have 6 of them in my project setup in 4 channel mode for white strips. They've been rock solid. 

You could put a Shelly on each of the loads (or behind the switches if there's enough room). 

13 minutes ago, rf9000 said:

What is the Shelly driver?

Chowmain Shelly driver (agent). It's excellent.

Use something like the shelly plus2 pm (it has cover control). 

10 minutes ago, bballjn64 said:

Amps are amps. They're not smart or controlled in any way other than taking the low level RCA input and amplifying it. It doesn't need a controller to work. You can literally plug any audio source with RCA outputs into the amp and get audio out to speakers.

True on a standalone amp, not true on a matrix amp.  Something has to tell the ins to connect to specific outs.

29 minutes ago, Topfox said:

Can you remove the rack ears from the CA-10? And do the network ports bridge so you are getting 2gb speed or are they truly fault tolerance only?

 

Thinking about picking one up. 

The ears can be removed if you want, the Ethernet ports are fault tolerant only. 

I believe you can use that timer button with no timers set and "first click is on" to get on / off. There are programming items for on/off as well. 

A couple folks here use it with the same iq2, iq4 driver.  @C4 User 

24 minutes ago, GregCAMS said:

@chopedogg88 surprised you didn't mention the other hardware option for this (lol) that does the ducking as part of this in its build as an add-on

I'm assuming you're talking about Josh, which I believe does ducking if you use the core. Dumb question, but can you have Josh play custom announcements based on events or actions in control4? I tested Josh a while ago (just a micro without a Core before they added all the new features) but have always wondered about this for announcements.