One of my favorite features of the Control4 system is that you can have Control4 touchscreens display photos as a screen saver, after a user-configurable timeout.
Originally Posted by ezlotogura As I replied to you in the other thread, to be a c4 dealer you need a history of a business in the industry, you need. Contact your pro. Your authorized Control4 Smart Home Pro has likely already given you an overview of your Control4 system. They will continue to be your point of contact about your system setup, to add more gear in the future, and just general questions about your Control4 Smart Home. Find Your Smart Home Pro. Control4 composer pro 2, 77977 records found, first 100 of them are: Composer Pro 1.7.2.160 key code generator: Composer Pro 1.7.4.36 serials key: Composer Pro 1.7.3.68 key generator: Composer Pro 1.7.1.290 patch: Sony Acid Pro 5,6 cool Edit Pro 2 serial number maker. C: Users bsmit AppData Roaming Control4 cacert.pem this file is on your computer now the file in it need to be copie to the end of clientca.pem file on controller see attached files this is what the files should look like this is the only key that needs to bee add to the controller to get it to work.
Control4 Composer 2.0 now requires a license to run. This video shows how to get the license to run Composer.
The initial setup of Photo Screensaver requires that a Control4 installer setup the storage location (typically on a network attached drive, or a local USB drive).
Once it’s setup, the homeowner or other user can use ComposerME or ComposerHE to add / remove photos from the screensaver.
While Composer isn’t a bad tool for adding photos to the screensaver, it isn’t a great tool, either, as it’s not all that convenient, especially if you’re running OSX or Linux, like I do.
I’d prefer something like this:
I came across a very nice jQuery file upload front-end a while back, and thought to myself that it would make a great UI to be able to manage photos for the Control4 Screensaver.
By now, people are pretty used to using a Web UI to upload and manage photos.
This hack allows you to do just that. After installing this hack, your Control4 system will provide a web UI to add or delete screensaver photos, as shown above. There are a few limitations, including:
- This has ONLY been tested on 2.2.X. It probably won’t work for anything before 2.0, as I believe the webserver used by the controller changed.
- The maximum image size for each upload is 10 MB.
- Only JPG image files are supported.
- This tool was not developed by Control4.
- There is NO SUPPORT provided by Control4 (or any Control4 Dealers) for this tool.
- Occasionally, the master controller must be restarted, when in-wall touchscreens are not updating screensaver photos.
- If you upgrade your Control4 system, you may need to re-install.
This should NOT cause any issues with a working Control4 system, but you should have backups anyway. 🙂
If you find any defects (or add new features and/or fix bugs), feel free to post them in the comments section.
INSTALLATION:
1) ssh into your master controller (as root) with something like Putty. I’m not including instructions on how to do this, but any installer can do it, or you can probably Google it.
By now, people are pretty used to using a Web UI to upload and manage photos.
This hack allows you to do just that. After installing this hack, your Control4 system will provide a web UI to add or delete screensaver photos, as shown above. There are a few limitations, including:
- This has ONLY been tested on 2.2.X. It probably won’t work for anything before 2.0, as I believe the webserver used by the controller changed.
- The maximum image size for each upload is 10 MB.
- Only JPG image files are supported.
- This tool was not developed by Control4.
- There is NO SUPPORT provided by Control4 (or any Control4 Dealers) for this tool.
- Occasionally, the master controller must be restarted, when in-wall touchscreens are not updating screensaver photos.
- If you upgrade your Control4 system, you may need to re-install.
This should NOT cause any issues with a working Control4 system, but you should have backups anyway. 🙂
If you find any defects (or add new features and/or fix bugs), feel free to post them in the comments section.
INSTALLATION:
1) ssh into your master controller (as root) with something like Putty. I’m not including instructions on how to do this, but any installer can do it, or you can probably Google it.
2) Enter this on the command line (as a single line):
Like this:
The installer downloads a set of files that it installs in the controller’s document root (in the ‘ScreenSaver’ folder, updates the web server’s conf file, then restarts the webserver.
Once the webserver has restarted (within a minute or two), you should be able to browse to your Control4 controller, (replacing IPADDRESS below with it’s IP address):
http://IPADDRESS/ScreenSaver/
Drag and Drop photos from your local desktop / folders, and press ‘upload’ to upload them to your Control4 system. Delete individual screensaver photos from the rotation.
Go crazy.
RyanE
P.S.: If you’re suspicious like me, feel free to download the installer script, unzip it and check it out, as well as the .tar.gz file it downloads, to see what’s inside.
Control4 Composer Pro Software
It’s nothing malicious, but you don’t need to trust me on that one. However, the one-line install is convenient… 🙂
