Overview
The Home Connect driver integrates Control4 devices with Apple HomeKit using a Homebridge or HOOBS 4/HOOBS 5 server. This will enable customers to control supported Control4 devices through the Apple Home app and Siri Voice Assistant where available.
A Homebridge or HOOBS server installation is required to act as the proxy between Control4 and Apple Home.
- Homebridge is a software-only offering and can be installed and run on many platforms and devices. See their installation guide for more information.
- HOOBS offers simple Plug and Play Hubs available for purchase on their website. Alternatively, you can manually install their software on a variety of devices. See their installation guide for more information.
Features
- Easy setup with a single driver configuration that can support all your project's devices in one place
- Local network communication requiring no cloud services
- Fast and reliable two-way feedback between Control4 and Apple Home
- Integrate Apple Home's leaving and arriving home geofencing automations to control devices
- Automated Homebridge/HOOBS 4/HOOBS 5 configuration and monitoring
- Project synchronization that requires no reconfiguration when devices are added, removed, renamed, or moved
Devices Supported
- Room Watch & Listen activities, including remote and volume control
- Light Switches, Dimmers, and Outlets
- Color-capable lighting
- Advanced lighting scenes
- Relays
- Fireplaces
- Fan speed controllers
- Blinds
- Thermostats
- Locks
- Motion sensors
- Occupancy sensors
- Contact sensors
- Leak/Water sensors
- Smoke sensors
- Carbon monoxide sensors
- Temperature sensors
- Humidity sensors
- Doorbells
- Garage doors
- Doors
- Gates
- Windows
- Security systems
- Macro triggering
- Programmable virtual switches and buttons for use in Control4 programming and Apple Home automations
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Brian Mercer
05/30/2023
wish this driver was available months ago
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because the other apple driver for siri stopped working and was hard to use (when it did work) and im ...
Danny Gray
04/22/2023
Amazing Driver
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I’m very impressed with this driver. It works great and was simple to install and configure. Overall it allows me ...
CT1
03/26/2023
The BEST! Fast, fully functional and incredibly stable!
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After trying all of the other drivers C4 control from homebridge, I've been using this in production for a couple ...
Amr AboTaleb
03/13/2023
An Outstanding C4 Apple HK Driver
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The Driver is a great and easy to use driver with a Zero Touch Configuration to C4, I used it ...
CK
03/12/2023
Flawlessly integrates your entire Control4 system into Apple Homekit
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This driver does an outstanding job of connecting Control4 systems into Apple Homekit and has full support for almost every ...
Documentation is included with the Driver Download and viewable in Composer.
v20230929 - 2023-09-29
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with the Gate integration where it would not be controlled correctly from the Apple Home app.
v20230922 - 2023-09-22
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with the Door -> Garage Door migration introduced in v20230921 causing the gates to be removed from the Apple Home app.
- Fixed an issue with the incorrect target temperature being displayed for thermostats.
v20230921 - 2023-09-21
Changed
- Changed gate device support from being implemented as a HomeKit Door accessory to a Garage Door accessory. With the release of iOS 17, you can now display Garage Door accessories as gates in the settings.
v20230920 - 2023-09-20
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where a thermostat in Auto mode may cause the Apple Home App to show the accessory as Not Responding.
v20230908 - 2023-09-08
Added
- Added support for configuring the "Night" arm mode of a security system. This will show up as an additional option next to the "Home" and "Away" modes in Apple Home app when configured. If modifying an existing system, a restart of the Homebridge/HOOBS server is necessary in order to refresh the Apple Home accessory.
v20230902 - 2023-09-02
Changed
- Changed the logic that checks the active connections to the Homebridge/HOOBS server to be more performant. This is an additional improvement aimed to reduce latency of interactions between the controller and other devices (e.g. remotes, keypads, etc.).
v20230830 - 2023-08-30
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where relay controller based garage doors, gates, and windows would show the opposite opening/closing state when controlled outside of Apple Home.
v20230828 - 2023-08-28
Added
- Added garage door support for the myQ driver.
Changed
- Changed the periodic accessory synchronization to only occur if devices were added/removed/changed/renamed or a navigator refresh was performed. This can be an expensive operation for larger projects and can cause interactions with other devices (e.g. remotes, keypads, etc.) to lag while the synchronization process is running.
v20230824 - 2023-08-24
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where integrated devices with device IDs less than 10 would log a warning in HOOBs/Homebridge.
v20230711 - 2023-07-11
Added
- Added temperature and humidity sensor support for devices that expose TEMPERATURE_VALUE and HUMIDITY_VALUE connections.
Changed
- Changed Refresh Advanced Lighting Scenes and Refresh Macros from an action to a selectable Refresh List item in the respective property for easier discoverability.
v20230702 - 2023-07-02
Fixed
- Fixed out-of-range value errors for light color temperature and thermostat target temperature.
v20230626 - 2023-06-26
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with incorrect thermostat setpoints after changing between
modes (e.g. Off, Auto, Cool, Heat).
v20230624 - 2023-06-24
Added
- Added Reset Home App Pairings action for fixing issues during the pairing process. See documentation for more information.
- Added additional parameter Trigger Switch Changed Event to programmable virtual switch command programming. This will allow conditional triggering of the switch changed event for cases when you only want to update the state of a virtual switch.
v20230620 - 2023-06-20
Added
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Added support for HOOBS 5.
v20230531 - 2023-05-31
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with the Select Macros where it was not refreshing the list on driver load.
v20230529 - 2023-05-29
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with the Refresh Advanced Lighting Scenes action where the property may incorrectly show no scenes to select.
Added
- Added conditional and event support for macro integration.
v20230525 - 2023-05-25
Added
- Added macro integration for triggering from Apple Home.
v20230524 - 2023-05-24
Fixed
- Fixed integration of blinds that do not have discrete level control.
v20230523 - 2023-05-23
Fixed
- Fixed thermostat capability detection. Certain thermostats were unable to be configured properly and resulted in a non-functioning accessory in Apple Home.
- Fixed handling of temperature changes when in Auto mode. Previously the lower set point would occasionally be set at the midpoint between the actual lower and upper set point.
v20230519 - 2023-05-19
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where turning on a dimmable light to a value other than the preset may be overridden with the preset value.
v20230518 - 2023-05-18
Fixed
- Fixed a locale encoding issue that would cause issues communicating with HOOBS/Homebridge.
v20230510 - 2023-05-10
Added
- Added window controller support
- Added door controller support
Fixed
- Reduced delay of lighting scene state changes when the change originates from outside of Apple Home.
Changed
- When an accessory property (e.g. light brightness) change originates from Apple Home, any additional changes to that property are debounced for 10s. This helps to reduce sending sporadic and/or transitioning states to Apple Home. For example, assume you have a light with a 3s ramp time, and you command the light to 100% in Apple Home. Without this change you may see the light brightness adjust back to 0% then ramp up with the light brightness, instead of staying at 100% where you set it.
- Important log messages are always printed, regardless of log level and/or mode.
- Garage and gate controller integration no longer automatically add connections to the open/close button links as it now sends the open/close command directly to the device.
v20230424 - 2023-04-24
Fixed
- Fixed light capability detection. Occasionally features such as "Light Color" would be present in Apple Home even though the light did not support it.
v20230417 - 2023-04-17
Added
- Added support for additional fireplace relay drivers.
v20230414 - 2023-04-14
Added
- Added gate controller support.
v20230331 - 2023-03-31
Fixed
- Fixed garage door binding process to only bind open/close connections if currently unbound. This addresses an issue where it would cause the garage door driver to temporarily report an "Unknown" state.
v20230324 - 2023-03-24
Added
- Added garage door support for the Cindev Garage Agent driver.
v20230308 - 2023-03-08
Added
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Added Refresh Advanced Lighting Scenes action for manually refreshing scenes list.
v20230306 - 2023-03-06
Added
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Initial release.
