Control4 with MLGW?

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beojeff
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Posted July 2, 2014 at 22:44 GMT
#2018939

Has anyone had experience with Control4 with the MasterLink Gateway? I see that there are drivers on the B&O website. Do you somehow have to get the drivers installed on the MLGW to see Control4 in the list of devices for programming?

My goal is to control my Philips Hue lighting system via the MLGW. While KNX is appealing, KNX seems to be unheard of in the U.S - even among B&O dealers. Control 4 now has a driver for the Philips Hue.

Ideally, I would like to be able to control my Philips Hue bridge directly from the MLGW. However, I can't seem to find a way to translate the Philips Hue command to the telnet command that MLGW uses for a custom string. My dealer has suggested that I could pay B&O a (rather large) fee to write a custom driver for the Philips Hue. It would seem that a much simpler solution might be if B&O could add a driver to allow HTTP or "curl" control. I'm don't understand computer programming and I'm probably saying this wrong.

Right now, I can turn on my lights by entering the following command via the terminal app on my mac:

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT --data '{"on":true}' 

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olvisab (archived2)
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Posted July 3, 2014 at 09:38 GMT
#2018940
Hi

For using control4 you need the driver from the b&o side and the one from control4 side. This one is provided by recluseav to control4 dealers only.

Without these two drivers Control4 appliances won't dialogue with the mlgw.

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beojeff
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Posted July 3, 2014 at 13:57 GMT
#2018941

What are the drivers for Control4 that are on the B&O website?

I'm still confused as to how we incorporate the Control4 programming into the MLGW programming utility. Conrol4 does not show up in the list like Lutron, KNX, etc.

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olvisab (archived2)
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Posted July 3, 2014 at 17:17 GMT
#2018942
The only driver I saw from b&o is the one on the ikatu website and it is only several line of simple code.

Do you have a link?
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beojeff
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Posted July 3, 2014 at 17:26 GMT
#2018943

Here is the link. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there is a section called "Toolbox" with drivers for the MLGW. I think those are the same 2 files. When I called B&O tech support, they were unaware of any third party site with drivers.

http://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/home-integration

Do you know the cost of the drivers from Recluse? I only want to use my B&O remotes and Beolink app. I do not want to use the Contro4 interface at all.

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symmes (archived2)
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Posted July 3, 2014 at 17:39 GMT
#2018944

If you have licensed Control 4 you should be able to do those drivers plus B&O at no extra charge (at least in US), according to my C4 buddy. 

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StUrrock (archived2)
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Posted July 3, 2014 at 19:56 GMT
#2018945
http://www.recluseav.com.au/blog/posts/driver-news-bang-olufsen-masterlink-gateway

Believe the driver is written by Alan Chow a Control4 legend!

Used it once when working with another av company, good stuff.
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beojeff
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Posted July 4, 2014 at 15:39 GMT
#2018946

StUrrock wrote:
http://www.recluseav.com.au/blog/posts/driver-news-bang-olufsen-masterlink-gateway

 

 

Believe the driver is written by Alan Chow a Control4 legend!

 

 

Used it once when working with another av company, good stuff.

However, I believe that the drivers on the B&O site were written by Henrik Nielsen, the designer of MLGW. The problem with most third parties is that they expect that you want THEIR protocol and interface to control B&O devices - rather than the other way around. I'm finding it very difficult to find home automation installers who are familiar with B&O at all. I'm uncomfortable with the Control4 installer's lack of familiarity with B&O and the fact that I would have to hire the installer to make even minor changes - such as if I added another Hue bulb in the future. I'm also looking into KNX as the KNX programming software can be available to the end user -- at a price, of course. The Ise Smart Connect KNX Hue will be available in about a month for KNX control of the Philips Hue.

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StUrrock (archived2)
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Posted July 4, 2014 at 20:27 GMT
#2018947
beojeff wrote:

However, I believe that the drivers on the B&O site were written by Henrik Nielsen, the designer of MLGW. The problem with most third parties is that they expect that you want THEIR protocol and interface to control B&O devices - rather than the other way around. I'm finding it very difficult to find home automation installers who are familiar with B&O at all. I'm uncomfortable with the Control4 installer's lack of familiarity with B&O and the fact that I would have to hire the installer to make even minor changes - such as if I added another Hue bulb in the future. I'm also looking into KNX as the KNX programming software can be available to the end user -- at a price, of course. The Ise Smart Connect KNX Hue will be available in about a month for KNX control of the Philips Hue.

where are you based?
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beojeff
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Posted July 4, 2014 at 20:38 GMT
#2018948

StUrrock wrote:
beojeff wrote:

 

However, I believe that the drivers on the B&O site were written by Henrik Nielsen, the designer of MLGW. The problem with most third parties is that they expect that you want THEIR protocol and interface to control B&O devices - rather than the other way around. I'm finding it very difficult to find home automation installers who are familiar with B&O at all. I'm uncomfortable with the Control4 installer's lack of familiarity with B&O and the fact that I would have to hire the installer to make even minor changes - such as if I added another Hue bulb in the future. I'm also looking into KNX as the KNX programming software can be available to the end user -- at a price, of course. The Ise Smart Connect KNX Hue will be available in about a month for KNX control of the Philips Hue.

 

 

where are you based?

I'm in Indianapolis, U.S.

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