CEDIA Award 2022: Best New Software
Each year CEDIA, Consumer Electronics Design and Installation Association, honors the best products in the smart home industry for the organization's three regions: Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), and Asia Pacific.
The CEDIA Awards program has three categories for manufacturers / trade suppliers:
Best New Software Product
Best New Hardware Product
Product Hall of Fame
This year Cindev entered the Agent Bundle to the Best New Software Product category. Cindev are proud to announce that the Agent Bundle was a finalist for 2022 CEDIA Awards Best New Software Product in the Americas region and as an international product purchased and used globally, won 2022 CEDIA Awards Best New Software Product in the EMEA region.
Check out the press releases from CEDIA here:
CEDIA Announces 2022 CEDIA Awards Finalists in the Americas
Winners announced of the 2022 CEDIA Awards, EMEA
Cindev's Agent Bundle is a dealer-centric set of tools or 'agents' that enhance customer experiences and features of any Control4 system. The Agents simplify notifications, alerts, and automations making the configuration process faster and easier for the dealer and giving the customer enhanced features for an improved smart home experience.
The Bundle contains Agent 14 unique agents, each with a specific purpose:
Battery Agent: Provide automatic low battery monitoring of all Control4-connected battery devices
Camera Agent: Universal Camera driver for Control4 projects
Doorbell Agent: Create fast and reliable doorbell integration for your Smart Home System
Dealer Agent: Contact dealer and project information interface with project validation utilities
Email+ Agent: Email notifications done better
Garage Agent: Garage Door integration done right
Login Agent: Track and monitor logins into your Control4 project
Light Agent: Create custom dashboards for colored lighting and other light based actions
Modes Agent: Create modes or scenes in the home. Randomized lighting supported too
Power Agent: Integrate WattBox, Panamax, Pakedge, and other PDU devices into Control4
Remote Agent: Locate your remote and adjust remote settings from the Control4 touchscreen
Temperature Agent: Monitor and get notifications of over and under temperature events of any temperature reading device in Control4
Voice Agent: Create voice alerts on Control4 touchscreens or speaker zones
Water Agent: Integrate Water valves and sensors quickly in Control4
The Agent bundle can be found here.
Thank you for your continuing support that allows us to do the award-winning work that we are proud to do. We're excited to share this exciting news with you and hope that there are many more awards to share in the future!
Remote Agent Webview
The Remote Agent provides your customers with a beautiful user interface for the remotes found in your Control4 smart home. Now with the latest version of the Remote Agent the home owner will be able to view the status of remotes, locate remotes and adjust remote settings through a new sleek dashboard.
The new Remote Agent dashboard is now available on both native Control4 touchscreens as well as the Control4 mobile apps (iOS and Android). In addition to viewing remotes states, the dashboard provides the home owner the ability to adjust many of the remote settings previously available only through composer (these differ based on the type of remote) and locate the remote when lost (if available on remote).
We hope you enjoy our new and improved Control4 driver found here:
To save money and add other cool features to your projects, consider purchasing the Remote Agent as part of the Agent Bundle.
Sense API Changes
Cindev has recently been notified that Sense will be deploying several important changes to their App API. As a part of this Sense will be making some privacy changes that will affect existing OAuth integrations which includes the Control4 integration brought to you by Cindev.
Due to these changes existing OAuth tokens will be revoked. As Cindev's Sense driver uses the token in order to authenticate with Sense servers, a new token will need to be obtained in order to regain the functionality of the driver.
Most OAuth implementations have a concept of a "refresh" token that makes this possible without the need to re-enter user credentials. Unfortunately Sense has not implemented this concept which will force our customers to manually reinput that information in order to gain a new token.
The Sense driver for Control4 does its best to simplify the process of getting a new token. This process will require access to Control4's ComposerPro as well as the Sense owner's username and password.
To begin the reauthentication, log into ComposerPro, find your Sense driver and under Driver Actions select Reset Account Connection. You will see a short message in the Driver Status asking you to select the field again (to prevent accidental resets). Once selected again the driver will reset its OAuth information stored in the driver and it will display a field to reenter the email address to begin authentication anew.
From there you can follow the same steps as were followed during the initial installation:
Enter email address
This does not need to be the email address of the account. This email address will receive an authentication email which in turn will send you to the page where the actual Sense account information will be inputted.
Customer will need to click activation link provided in email
Once account has been validated, driver is set up and ready to use!
Refresh Navigators
That is all!
All of us here at Cindev and our partner's at Sense apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We do not foresee this becoming a common reoccurrence, and to avoid future inconveniences we are in talks with Sense about the implementation of a "refresh" token that would circumvent these occurrences.
For any questions reach out to us atinfo@cindev.com and if you require any help with reauthentication visithelp.drivercentral.iofor support.
News: Agent Bundle
Agent Bundle is a suite of drivers containing 14 unique agents, each with a specific purpose. The software is built with Control4 customers and dealers in mind. See below an overview video we released recently alongside a quick tip that allows you to easily install the Bundle on your next Project.
The Agents are designed with the following features in mind:
Speed up project completion
Use out of the box with default settings
Streamline alerts and provide better alert management
Preloaded icons, driver naming, and notifications
The Agent Bundle includes the following drivers:
Battery Agent: Provide automatic low battery monitoring of all Control4-connected battery devices
Camera Agent: Universal Camera driver for Control4 projects
Doorbell Agent: Create fast and reliable doorbell integration for your Smart Home System
Dealer Agent: Contact dealer and project information interface with project validation utilities
Email+ Agent: Email notifications done better
Garage Agent: Garage Door integration done right
Login Agent: Track and monitor logins into your Control4 project
Light Agent: Create custom dashboards for colored lighting and other light based actions
Modes Agent: Create modes or scenes in the home. Randomized lighting supported too
Power Agent: Integrate WattBox, Panamax, Pakedge, and other PDU devices into Control4
Remote Agent: Locate your remote and adjust remote settings from the Control4 touchscreen
Temperature Agent: Monitor and get notifications of over and under temperature events of any temperature reading device in Control4
Voice Agent: Create voice alerts on Control4 touchscreens or speaker zones
Water Agent: Integrate Water valves and sensors quickly in Control4
The Agent bundle can be found here.
For ease of install create a folder for all the Cindev Agents found in the Agent Bundle in Composer Pro!
To set up a quick list in the My Drivers folder:
- Log into Composer Pro
- Right click inside the My Drivers window
- Select Load List
- Use the XML file found below to load the Agents into a folder under My Drivers
