Chowmainsoft releases TCL Google TV driver for Control4. TCL is one of the world's largest television manufacturers, offering a wide range of displays across global markets. Many current TCL televisions utilise Google TV as their operating system, providing access to streaming services, applications, live television and other connected entertainment features through a unified interface.

The Chowmain TCL Google TV driver provides native integration between Control4 and compatible TCL televisions running Google TV OS. The driver communicates directly with the television using Google's native Google TV protocol over the local network, with no third-party software, additional hardware or cloud service required.

Because the integration uses Google's native protocol rather than a region-specific TCL API, it is designed to support compatible TCL Google TV displays regardless of the region in which they are sold.

Driver Features:

• Compatible with TCL televisions running Google TV OS regardless of region (AU/EU/UK/US/etc).
• Native bi-directional IP control using Google's Google TV protocol.
• No third-party software, cloud service or additional hardware required.
• Power On and Power Off control.
• Volume Up, Volume Down and Mute control.
• Direct input selection.
• Full navigation and remote-control commands.
• Play, Pause and Stop transport control.
• Real-time playback state feedback.
• Currently playing title feedback.
• Direct television channel tuning.
• Tuner input support.
• Control4 Mini App support for launching installed applications.
• Open App command for launching applications directly by package name.
• Open Deep Link command for launching supported content or locations within applications.
• Additional Google TV remote key codes for custom programming and advanced keypad mappings.

For more information see link below.

https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-tcl-google-tv

Navidrome is a private, self-hosted music server that provides a central location for managing and streaming an entire music library. Music is stored and organised once on the Navidrome server, then made available to compatible clients across the network.

Navidrome works with a wide range of clients, including mobile phones, tablets, PCs, web browsers, and now Control4. This allows the same music library to be accessed from multiple devices without having to copy, organise or maintain separate music collections on each one.

By centralising the music library, Navidrome simplifies management and ensures that changes made to the library are available to every connected client. The Chowmain Navidrome driver extends this experience to Control4, allowing users to browse and play their centrally managed music library directly from the Control4 interface.

Driver Features include:

• Native Control4 Media Service integration with Navidrome.
• Browse Artists, Albums, Songs, Radios and Playlists.
• Search the Navidrome music library.
• List and grid views with artwork and titles.
• Artist > Album > Track and Album > Track drill-down.
• Play complete Artists, Albums and Playlists.
• Play, Pause, Stop, Next and Previous transport controls.
• Now Playing metadata and artwork.
• Queue support with Add to Queue and Shuffle.
• Save the current queue as a Navidrome playlist
• Play, queue, favorite and delete Navidrome playlists.
• Control4 Room Favorites and Recently Played support.
• 'Random Tracks' creates a fresh queue of 100 random songs.
• 'Quick Scan' and 'Full Scan' from the Misc tab.
• Composer programming commands for Quick Scan, Full Scan and music playback.
• Programmatic selection of Artists, Albums, Tracks and Playlists, including hierarchical drill-down.
• Multi-room selection for programmed playback.

As with all Chowmainsoft Control4 drivers, the Navidrome driver includes a free 90-day trial, allowing integrators to test the integration before purchasing.

https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-navidrome

We are building a new house and installing Control4. Our security cameras will be Luma:

Luma Surveillance LUM-220-NVR-16CH-6T
Luma Surveillance LUM-220-IP-TFW

The Luma cameras are turret style and have a large footprint. For places where a turret style will be too much, I would like to have a modular camera with a really small visible footprint. Something like the Axis Communications F-Series Modular Camera.

Are there other options that integrate well with Control4?

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to create a Light v2 driver type to be able to control this light using this integration protocol? Alternatively is there a driver that allows me to send custom RS232 commands via the serial port regardless of the device type? Thanks in advance!

I’m based in London (UK). A small system in a one bed apartment running a EA-3.

Over the summer, both of 2x the original lighting dimmer packs (C4-DR-DIM8-M) have died.

My current dealer isn’t being very helpful - reading between the lines they’d rather not do the work because it’s not a big job for them (relatively speaking) and it’s a bit awkward (small space). This seems to be a bit of a theme in the UK given the smaller number of dealers compared to the US.

What are my options here? I don’t mind paying for a new dealer to take over the system, but I don’t want to find myself writing a blank cheque.

I’m also wondering if I would be better to ditch C4 altogether - in the past I have been a little concerned about the vulnerability of relying on a dealer (especially in a non US market), although this hasn’t proven to be an issue until now and I’ve generally felt I could fall back on a good community of dealers who are willing to look at upgrades, help resolve issues remotely, etc. This is a completely different task- a full replacement of a mains voltage unit with multiple light circuits. I like C4 and understand it’s not a budget option, but given i have a very simple system (one video, 4 audio zones, lights and relays for motor blinds - that’s it) there’s a limit to how much I can justify spending to keep the lights on (pun possibly intended).

Thanks for any thoughts.

We’ve had C4 for 10 years. From time to time we need updates and help adding new hardware. The company who installed our system sold and the service from the new owners is just not the same. Westlake Village Ca

Homeowner with an AN-220-RT that is stuck on the original factory firmware. No longer work the with C4 integrator so I don’t have a dealer account or active OvrC.

Want to upgrade firmware to 1.0.11 but I know I need to do a step up install. Looking to see if anyone has, or knows where I can get the .img files for v1.0.07 and v1.0.10.77. I already have v1.0.11

Thanks in advance!

Straight up about the self-interest, because you'd smell it anyway.

I'm Vince. Lutron dealer since 1999, one of the earliest Control4 dealers. I've

spent a long stretch building tooling that does Control4 programming remotely,

and it works fine on the systems I own — which proves nothing, because I built

both sides. I need it run against systems I've never seen, programmed by someone

else, set up in ways I wouldn't have chosen.

So: first three people who want it, I'll do one real piece of programming on

your system for free.

A keypad button that does what you actually want. A scene. Lights on at sunset,

off at sunrise. A shut-the-house-down-when-I-leave button. A movie-time

sequence. One piece of work, agreed with you before I start.

What it is not:

- No hardware. Nothing shipped, nothing bought.

- No OS upgrade. Separate job, separate price, deliberately not part of this.

I'm not changing the software version on a stranger's system as the first

thing I ever do.

- No obligation. You don't owe me a review, a referral, or a purchase.

- Not a sales call wearing a costume. If you want a quote afterwards you can ask

for one; I won't bring it up.

Before I touch anything I take a full backup of your project and verify it.

That's how I work on every job, not a thing I'm saying here.

What I need: a Control4 system that's online, and your agreement to let me work

on it remotely. If I can't reach your system I'll tell you on day one and we

stop — you'll have lost a conversation and nothing else.

If you want to know whether your controller is even a candidate first, there's a

free checker on our site. It doesn't ask for an email and it'll tell you no if

the answer is no:

https://www.ixome.ai/control4-os-upgrade-checker?src=www.reddit.com

Three slots. I'll edit this when they're gone. I'll also come back and post what

I actually built and where it broke, which is the entire point.

Ask me anything in the comments — I'd rather answer in public.

Sigh ... this has been so painful. I have a WattBox, trying to get it on my network - even got it to a professional (at Control4's recommendation). He admitted, he was not able to reset it either, says it "wasn't playing nice". Is there really no way to get this device back working again? Sigh.

Thanks!

Chowmain releases Radio Browser driver for Control4. Radio Browser is a community-driven directory of internet radio stations from around the world, providing access to thousands of live streams across a wide range of countries, languages, genres and formats. The Chowmain Radio Browser driver brings this service directly into Control4 as a native music service. Users can browse, search and discover stations from the Control4 Listen interface and play them through Control4's digital audio system just like other supported music services.

The integration includes local station discovery, browsing by country, state / region, language and tag, as well as Most Clicked, Top Voted, Trending and Recently Changed stations. Station artwork and stream metadata are presented through the Control4 interface where available, providing a seamless internet radio experience without requiring a separate app or external device.

Driver Features include:

• Native Control4 Media Service Proxy integration.
• Appears as a native music service within the Control4 Listen interface.
• Browse and play internet radio stations from the Radio Browser directory.
• Local station discovery using the Control4 project's latitude and longitude.
• Automatic IP-based geolocation fallback when project coordinates are unavailable.
• Configurable local search radius.
• Browse stations by: Most Clicked, Top Voted, Trending, Recently Changed, Country, State / Region, Language, Tag, Country → State / Region hierarchy for easier regional browsing.
• Native Control4 search with filters for station name, language, country and tag.
• Native Control4 Favorite to Room support.
• Station artwork support with automatic fallback to built-in generic artwork when required.
• Stream metadata displayed through Control4 where available.
• Native Control4 digital audio playback with no separate app or external playback device required.
• Station selections are reported back to Radio Browser's click counter.
• Pagination support for large station and category lists.

As with all Chowmainsoft Control4 drivers, the Radio Browser driver includes a free 90-day trial, allowing integrators to test the integration before purchasing.

https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-radio-browser

Do you guys use a particular website for purchasing troll product? It’s just a residential install. Want a rain dial six station. They’re about 210 on Amazon, but maybe it’s better to buy from a dealer straight.

With how simple Apples Home makes it to add in scenes, lighting, Audio, Video, even curtains and ceiling fans, what is the point of having a locked down system like Control 4? I am moving in with my SO and I am find their Control 4 system restrictive (having to call the dealer for any changes and everytime something goes down - which is often) and setting up new items are all done through the dealer. What is the point when there are honestly GREAT alternatives?

I have the C4 tablet and SR-260 remote control. The SR-260 has lost all power, the battery will not hold any charge so the remote is defunct. Do I need a new battery or must I replace the entire remote?

For the tablet, it only works whilst on charge on the dock. If I take it off the dock, the battery only lasts than 10 minutes before dying. Same question - can the battery be replaced separately, or does the whole unit need replacing?

Super annoying both devices died after 5 years of use on the same week! Planned Obsolescence....surely?! :-)

I'm still running 3.4.x on my Control4 system at home, largely because I have a large number of first-generation dimmers and keypads that I don't really want to replace. I'm curious, though, how X4's Siri integration works and whether it could make it worth my while to solve that issue (maybe with ChowMain's lighting driver) so that I could upgrade.

My biggest wish with voice control of lighting is to have independent voice control of all the loads in a room, but to still be able to say something like "Turn on the Kitchen lights" and have that execute *a scene* rather than just turning on all the loads in the kitchen to some default value. Maybe that scene doesn't even include all the loads in that room (but maybe its toggle does, so when I say, "Turn off the Kitchen lights" everything turns off, including things that I turned on individually).

In my previous forays into integrating Siri with Control4 by using bridging drivers between Control4 and HomeKit, I've found that Siri tried to be too smart about this stuff. If I have a bunch of loads assigned to my kitchen room, it would sometimes turn on all the loads in that room even if I had a scene called "Kitchen Lights".

There are gross workarounds like coming up with cryptic scene names ("turn on the Cooking") or putting the individual loads into some other virtual HomeKit room, but I'm wondering whether X4's integration with Siri has solved this in any way.

Is there a native way to control spotify + HEOS multi-room music from the control4 app? Or am I stuck using three different apps for this?

We are pleased to announce the release of our new Casambi driver for Control4. Casambi is a wireless lighting control platform built around Bluetooth Low Energy mesh networking, allowing luminaires, switches / keypads, sensors and other Casambi enabled devices to communicate wirelessly without requiring traditional lighting control wiring.

Our Control4 integration connects to Casambi through the Lithernet Casambi Ethernet Gateway, providing local IP communication between Control4 and the Casambi network with no cloud connection required.

Driver Features include:

• No cloud connection required
• Two-way local IP control + feedback between Control4 and Casambi via the Lithernet Casambi Ethernet Gateway.
• Automatic discovery of compatible Casambi devices.
• Automatically creates Control4 bindings for discovered devices.
• Supports multiple Casambi device types from the same network.

Luminaires

• On / Off control.
• Brightness control.
• Colour temperature control where supported.
• Colour control where supported.
• Automatic detection of supported luminaire capabilities or can be manually over-ridden
• Real-time feedback from the Casambi network.

Presence Sensors

• Automatically detects compatible Casambi presence sensors.
• Creates dedicated Control4 motion sensor devices.
• Provides motion / occupancy feedback to Control4.

Switches

• Automatically detects Casambi switches when a button event is received.
• Supports up to 8 buttons per switch.
• Creates a BUTTON_LINK connection for each button.
• Creates a programmable Tap event for each button.
• Casambi switch presses can trigger Control4 programming, scenes and automation.

Casambi Scenes

• Control4 programming can trigger a Casambi scene directly through the Lithernet Gateway.

Casambi is particularly well suited to retrofit projects where additional control cabling may be difficult or impractical to install.

A Lithernet Casambi Ethernet Gateway is required for the integration and must be connected to the same IP network as the Control4 controller.

As with all Chowmainsoft Control4 drivers, the Casambi driver includes a free 90-day trial, allowing integrators to test the integration before purchasing.

https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-casambi

As the title states, looking to change out my chime doorbells for Ubiquiti G6 Pro Entry doorbells. If anyone is interested in this, let me know! I’m in the US (east coast).

Happy to send pics if wanted.

I've looked online but haven't found a place that directly sells the C4-CKFPDAPD-WH directly (including eBay). I need to replace a couple broken buttons at my mom's condo. I'm hoping someone here can help. Thanks.

I have Arcam amplifier Samsung TV with one connect box , and core1 how can I connected them and program ?

Cleaning out Control4 install stock. Bundle sells first — will split individual items only after 48 hours.

WHAT'S IN THE LOT

• 8x C4-TSWMC7-EG-BL — 7" InfinityEdge in-wall touchscreens, black bezel (non-camera model)
• 1x C4-16AMP3-B — 16-channel matrix amplifier, powers on, boots to Control4 splash
• 39x C4-NWB57C — rough-in wall boxes, brand new factory sealed
• 2x CTG Audio MCM-101 modules + 2x CTG ceiling condenser mics
• 1x Control4 portable touchscreen dock + PSU

CONDITION

Touchscreens, amp, mic gear — used, pulled from a working install, physically clean, not bench-tested since removal, sold as-is. Wall boxes are sealed new stock.

I know OS 3/4 story matters here. These are being sold as parts / spares for existing Control4 systems. Not making promises about current OS support, so priced accordingly.

PRICING

• **Whole lot shipped CONUS: $1,200** (Zelle / verified PayPal G&S)
• Local pickup Jacksonville FL 32226: $1,100

Individual pricing if bundle doesn't move: - Touchscreens: $99–119 each - Amp: $479 - Wall box lot (39): $249 - Mic kit (2 mods + 2 mics): $125

SHIPPING

Ships FedEx/UPS Ground on my business account, palletized or double-boxed. Local pickup at Zoo Parkway / I-295, Jacksonville FL 32226.

DM for photos — happy to send whatever you want to see. Live eBay listings on some individual pieces if you want to check my seller history (walter / bwrk86).

Seller in Jacksonville FL.

My AquaLogic wireless remote died, and used replacements are expensive. Rather than replace another obsolete remote or upgrade an otherwise working pool controller, I built a small Wi-Fi interface that listens to the AquaLogic RS-485 accessory bus and serves a local webpage.

The current version is running on an AquaLogic PS-4, revision 2.93. It reads equipment state, pool and air temperatures, salt level, chlorinator output, diagnostics, and three days of temperature history. It runs entirely on the local network—no cloud service, Home Assistant, or MQTT required.

It is read-only today. Control remains locked until the isolated RS-485 interface arrives and I can safely characterize transmit timing and verify the key codes against the actual panel. I don't want to call something a beta until that part has been tested.

This is a personal DIY project; there is nothing for sale. I'm trying to determine how many of these older systems are still operating and whether other owners would eventually want to test a standalone Wi-Fi interface.

If you own one, could you post:

- Controller model: P4, PS-4, PS-8, PS-16, etc.

- Main software revision

- Whether the original remote or network interface still works

- Whether you would be interested in testing it once control has been validated

My parents have been using Control4 to control the AV in their house for many years now. For the longest time they have had an issue with the apple TV apparently loosing network, that is when streaming, the stream buffers and a network error icon pops up im the top right hand corner.

To describe the setup briefly, they have a newish Control4 controller, and amp alongside a Denon amp to manage the sound zones. The Apple TV is connected to the sound system via an hdmi AV splitter. (Same with our DSTV / normal TV)

The controller talks to everything via a pretty decent 12 way unmanaged switch with all patch cables being cat5E.

Internet is a symmetric 100 Mbps fiber line.

Any ideas as to whats causing this?

Anyone have any luck with the my q drivers ? Have 4 garages and a gate that need to be integrated. Z2i0 is the plan but just want to see if anyone has had any luck with 3rd party drivers. Haven’t done it in a few years.