chopedogg88 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 It can control anything that is under the control of your control4 system...basically anything that can be programmed in control4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Here's a quick and crude vid of the Amazon Echo driver from Epic-systems.com I'll be uploading a proper and polished video soon. Shows some of the A/V aspects of the driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Thanks Neil for sharing that video! Nice Ride! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I use the following triggers: blinds curtains lights panic TV various names (each of us in the family have a playlist and we use the name to call the playlist - e.g. Turn Adam on or Turn Eve on) The triggers work great as does on and off. However, I find Alexa is no good at interpreting up and down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil12011 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Here's preview on the Echo driver in an modern home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drro Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Hi, @chopedogg88. After I buy the driver and have my dealer install it in my project, can I configure the events myself in ComposerHE? Thanks, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 19 minutes ago, drro said: Hi, @chopedogg88. After I buy the driver and have my dealer install it in my project, can I configure the events myself in ComposerHE? Thanks, David im not chopedogg88 but yes, once your dealer puts in the driver you can do as you please. My dealer installed the driver and did one test one to show me how to do it. Since then I've created 6-7 on my own. very simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drro Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 You can also add/delete devices with HE (or do the same in the Amazon ap) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2hand@aol.com Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Does my programmer need to be at my house to do this programming to get the echo driver working? Does composure home edition allow me to set up the triggers once the drivers installed by my programmer? Thank you Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 The driver can be installed remotely by your dealer. From there you can use home edition to define and program the trigger words/phrases. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopedogg88 Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 I'm not sure if its just me or if I'm just having a brain lapse, but I'm no longer seeing the option in the echo.amazon.com interface or the alexa app for forgetting an existing wifi network? I just walked a customer through it yesterday on how to forget the network and then used advanced settings to set a static IP...I was going to record a video today on how to do the whole setup, but now I'm not seeing the ability to forget an existing network...as soon as I click on the network, it immediately connects me. Can others take a look and let me know if you see a change? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I thought the forget option was under advanced setup in setup. I think I tried the same thing as you a few weeks ago and just go connected right away to the existing network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schrady Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I'm giving this a C. For $300, I expect more. Alexa can't tell up or down most of the time, although she recognizes Dim. I get on and off to work 85% of the time. Alexa is NOWHERE as good as siri at voice recognition. It also sucks we're using a light driver to control our events. That the real cause. I beg for SIriProxy again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Spend some time doing voice training with the Echo. The recognition rate will go up. just curious - for $279 - ($179 for the Echo, which can be used outside C4 + $100 for the driver), what other integrated voice control option do you have now? The only other option I know of is VoicePod and that is a significantly more expensive solution (granted, with more flexibility) with recurring costs. What exactly do you expect for $300 in the Control4 universe? That's the cost of a keypad dimmer and install for most people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SY3 Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 While I don't have the Echo driver (yet), it should be understood that Control4 voice control is limited. You only have a few choices. SiriProxy was amazing for those that had it. Complain to Apple for that. Complain to Control4 for not developing a driver of their own. It's a free market. If someone has the skills to take something and provide a solution that works for 80% of the requirements, then they should be given a little more credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schrady Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 36 minutes ago, jfh said: Spend some time doing voice training with the Echo. The recognition rate will go up. just curious - for $279 - ($179 for the Echo, which can be used outside C4 + $100 for the driver), what other integrated voice control option do you have now? The only other option I know of is VoicePod and that is a significantly more expensive solution (granted, with more flexibility) with recurring costs. What exactly do you expect for $300 in the Control4 universe? That's the cost of a keypad dimmer and install for most people. Ya ya. I get your point. For those of us DIYers who had Siri proxy, this is a let down for 5x the money. Siri proxy was nil $$ and its not portable. I used to take my iphone or ipad all over the house. My echo is pretty much stationary given its plugged in. If Alexa undertstood up and off more than 10% of the time, I wouldnt be so critical. My 'up' and 'off' sound nothing alike. My wife, my kid. No one could get them to work And DIM works in place of 'DOWN' but no one tells you that. Down never works. Dim always does. I'm working on a siri proxy through a rasp pii and homekit right now.Hoping to have a working demo in spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOutsider Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, schrady said: Ya ya. I get your point. For those of us DIYers who had Siri proxy, this is a let down for 5x the money. Siri proxy was nil $$ and its not portable. I used to take my iphone or ipad all over the house. My echo is pretty much stationary given its plugged in. If Alexa undertstood up and off more than 10% of the time, I wouldnt be so critical. My 'up' and 'off' sound nothing alike. My wife, my kid. No one could get them to work And DIM works in place of 'DOWN' but no one tells you that. Down never works. Dim always does. I'm working on a siri proxy through a rasp pii and homekit right now.Hoping to have a working demo in spring. ...OK, but this ISN'T siriproxy, so stop judging it as if it were. This is a driver for Amazon Echo. Judge it based on how it integrates the Amazon Echo, not how the Amazon Echo compares to siri. Good luck on your project, but as it isn't relevant to this product, please promote it in another thread. Your threadcrapping isn't constructive, it's rude and unfair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 9 minutes ago, schrady said: If Alexa undertstood up and off more than 10% of the time, I wouldnt be so critical. My 'up' and 'off' sound nothing alike. My wife, my kid. No one could get them to work If if the recognization rate is really that low, something else is wrong. 9 minutes ago, schrady said: And DIM works in place of 'DOWN' but no one tells you that. Down never works. Dim always does. Actually, a simple search would have told you that "DIM" works. Given that it's actually a light driver that makes sense. It's not in the driver because for the Hue light driver dim == down. Again, you may have something else going on. I use UP and DOWN in about 20 of my triggers and they work fine. I don't know what my recognition rate is but I know (a) it has improved with use and (b) it's more like 90-something percent - no where near 10% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schrady Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 20 minutes ago, AnOutsider said: ...OK, but this ISN'T siriproxy, so stop judging it as if it were. This is a driver for Amazon Echo. Judge it based on how it integrates the Amazon Echo, not how the Amazon Echo compares to siri. Good luck on your project, but as it isn't relevant to this product, please promote it in another thread. Your threadcrapping isn't constructive, it's rude and unfair. Was careful not use use any words but on or off or Dim. Its UP that Alexa has a major issue with, thinking it means off. Overall a decent replica of what one can expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 Very interesting... I would love to understand what some of us are getting wrong on up and down. I doubt that I even get a 10% success rate on up or down. But on / off works perfectly as do mall my trigger words (except TV which stopped working a week ago). Dim works perfectly for me although it is not intuitive for me to say "Dim xxx" where xxx is a playlist. Even "Turn xxx down" is not perfect but I trained myself in this :-) Is there a corresponding Alexa synonym for up? "Brighten" does not seem to work for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schrady Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 9 minutes ago, jfh said: If if the recognization rate is really that low, something else is wrong. Actually, a simple search would have told you that "DIM" works. Given that it's actually a light driver that makes sense. It's not in the driver because for the Hue light driver dim == down. Again, you may have something else going on. I use UP and DOWN in about 20 of my triggers and they work fine. I don't know what my recognition rate is but I know (a) it has improved with use and (b) it's more like 90-something percent - no where near 10% I was reading the release instructions from the driver manufacturer, not the phillips hue manual you dolt. They dont mention Dim = down for triggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 3 minutes ago, schrady said: I was reading the release instructions from the driver manufacturer, not the phillips hue manual you dolt. They dont mention Dim = down for triggers. The C4 driver events that are supported for each device are ON, OFF, UP and DOWN. Why would you expect the driver documentation to mention DIM? You want to know what the Echo can understand? Read the Echo documentation. Google "Amazon Echo dim". Look at the entire first page of results. Pretty damn obvious "dim" is supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfh Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 What devices names give you trouble with UP and DOWN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I've been playing a little this evening (while following the entertainment on this forum) and found that the triggers "lights" and "room" work fairly well with up and down (above 50% with the problem being that Alexa mishears up as on or off some of the time). Other triggers like people's names (which is what I have for all my playlists - either family member names or artists names) never work... I need to think of a generic word for volume and use that as a separate device with up and down only... Will give this some thought! Maybe I will use "speakers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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