Light Proxy · $49 per project
The X4 slider widget, for any light.
On Control4 X4 many lights only get an on and off toggle on the home and room screens, and a scene gets no slider at all. Light Proxy stands in for a light, a group of lights, or a whole scene, and gets the light widget with the brightness slider. Tick the lights or pick the scene in Properties, add it to the screen, done.
Free for 30 days on every controller. No account needed to try.
One Light Proxy favourited to the room dims three pendants from the tile.
Lights or a lighting scene. Tick the lights, or pick the scene. Everything else is optional.
It is a dimmer speaking the current brightness protocol, which is what X4 gives its light widget to.
Its level is read from the lights' own reports, so a change from a keypad or programming shows at once.
What it replaces
What a programmer would build in Composer for this, and what the driver does instead.
Where it earns its place
One driver, added once per favourite. Each copy stands in for the lights you tick.
Widget with a slider
Any load whose own widget only toggles on the X4 home and room screens.
Group dimmer
Three pendants over the island, dimmed as one. The slider sets every light; the tile shows the brightest.
Keypad target
Bind keypad buttons to it like any dimmer: a click turns the group on, off or over.
Scene dimmer
Pick an Advanced Lighting scene and the slider scales it: 100% is the scene as designed, lower is every light at that share of its level.
Recipes
A few ways dealers set it up, with the Properties each one needs.
Kitchen Pendants
- Lights
- Pendant 1, Pendant 2, Pendant 3
Tap: The tile switches all three; the slider sets them to one level with a smooth ramp.
Lit while the tile shows the brightest pendant, and a pendant changed from its own keypad updates it at once.
Reading Lamp
- Lights
- Reading Lamp
Tap: On and off go to the lamp's own preset; the slider dims it.
Lit while it mirrors the lamp exactly.
Movie Night
- Lighting Scene
- Movie
Tap: The tile activates the scene as designed; the slider scales it, so half is every light at half its scene level.
Lit while the tile shows how far up the scene is, from the lights' own reports; off turns the scene's lights off.
Porch and Path
- Lights
- Porch, Path 1, Path 2
- Command Spacing
- 750 ms
Tap: Commands go out one light at a time, so a single-radio bridge keeps up.
Lit while the tile follows the brightest light.
Everything it does
- The X4 light widget with the brightness slider, for loads whose own widget only switches on and off.
- One light, a group, or an Advanced Lighting scene: the slider sets every light to the same level, or scales the scene; on and off let each light use its own preset.
- Follows the lights: the tile shows the highest reported level, and a change made from a keypad or by programming shows at once.
- Ramps as asked: a brightness with a ramp time is forwarded with that time, and the tile animates the ramp.
- A scene member and a keypad target like any dimmer: a click on a bound button turns the group on, off or over.
- Properties only: choose Lights or Lighting Scene under Stands In For, tick the lights or pick the scene, click Set. Optional spacing between commands for RF bridges.
- The widget's preset row works as brightness steps: the left circle is off, the right is full, the ones between are evenly spaced. The row is drawn by X4 for every light with a slider; its highlight follows colour and is not driven by the proxy.
Set-up
- 1Add the driver to the room and rename it to what the customer should see.
- 2In Properties, set Stands In For to Lights and tick the light or lights, or set it to Lighting Scene and pick the scene, then click Set.
- 3Add it to the home or room screen in the Control4 app, or bind keypad buttons to it.
Requirements
- ·Control4 X4 (OS 4.2.1 or later)
- ·Any light in the project: dimmer or switch, any driver
How it works
Download
Add the driver in Composer Pro and set it up from Properties. Free for 30 days on that controller, no account needed.
Create a project
Apply for a free dealer account, add the customer's project, and type its short code into the driver. The controller links itself on the next check-in.
License the project
One licence covers every Light Proxy on that controller. Move it to another project when the customer changes.
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