HomeKit for Control4

UPDATE: Commercial alternative available When I wrote this guide there was no other way of using Siri or HomeKit with Control 4. However Varietas Software have built a plug and play offering that you can use to quickly add the features to your setup. It saves you from having to do it yourself as detailed […]

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Something Useful

SMS Driver for Twilio Now you have created a basic driver lets move onto creating something of use. There are a few of ways of sending notifications outside the system, mainly using email which relies on having the 4Sight subscription. So using the email system you can send SMS text messages using an email to SMS […]

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Using Properties

Configure your Driver If you want to give your driver some information then the best way to do it is by adding a property. A property is a way of letting you give some information to the driver. Most of the drivers that you use already have properties, you can see them when you click […]

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Hello World

Your first program Like all programming books teach, we’ll do the same – start with a basic hello world program. The majority of the stuff in here is how to create a program in Driver Editor, upload it with composer and then run it to see the output. Once you can do this, then it […]

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Introduction

So you want to write a driver? So did I and I didn’t have a clue. I opened the Driver Works Getting Started PDF, looked at the contents and decided I didn’t want to read it. I just wanted to do something quickly and having to learn first wasn’t appealing. Wanting to take a shortcut […]

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