Cinegration Development's Voice Agent

Cinegration Development has released its latest driver - the Voice Agent! The newest addition to CinDev's Agents allows dealers to program voice alerts for essentially any occurrence in the Smart Home. The Voice Agent can play alerts over the home's speakers or through Control4 touchpads.

The Voice Agent is easy to install and makes creating announcements as simple as possible! Dealers can even choose from more than 50 different voices to match the homeowner's preferences. CinDev's Voice Agent uses Google Cloud's Speech-to-Text, providing more reliability, better voices, and enhanced accuracy. Dealers can simply install the Voice Agent and begin experiencing alerts immediately. 

With CinDev's Voice Agent, the possibilities are endless! The Voice Agent driver can be programmed to let a homeowner know that a door or window is open or provide a good morning report for example. When connected to other Cinegration Development Agents, the Voice Agent can notify about weather events, power loss, water detection, temperature warnings, and more! 

The Voice Agent can be purchased at DriverCentral!

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Driver Highlights:

• Use standard Voice Alerts or create custom alerts on Control4 T3 touchscreens or home's speakers

• No dealer setup is required for basic touchscreen alert notifications

• Supports Agent notifications 

• Create custom notifications in programming

Cinegration Development Introduces the Flo by Moen Driver

Cinegration Development is very excited to introduce the Flo by Moen driver, giving customers extensive ability to control and monitor the water in their homes. Customers with Flo by Moen now have the freedom to manage, monitor, and turn off water usage from any room or while away.

Backed by years of product development and industry leading technology, Flo by Moen detects and stops leaks by monitoring pressure, flow, and water temperature. Flo by Moen monitors all water-related functions in the home from the toilet, shower, or faucet to the pipes in the foundation and behind the walls. With the Flo by Moen driver, dealers can create highly-custom interactions between water and smart homes so there are no surprises on the customer's water bill or catastrophes when the customer comes home from vacation. 

Flo by Moen driver can be purchased at DriverCentral!
Still need the Flo by Moen device? Purchase here! 

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Driver Highlights:

• Turn water valve on or off from any Control4 interface 

• Monitor water flow

• Access Flo by Moen dashboard from T3 touchscreens

• Control4 events in real-time for

  • Water Pressure (psi)

  • Water Temperature (f)

  • Water Rate of Flow (gal/min)

  • Leak Detection and Valve State

• Change mode (Home, Away, Sleep) from Control4 programming

• Automatic Push Notification support. No dealer setup required!

• Automatic Email Alerts. 4Sight NOT required!

• Voice Alerts over touch screens (Requires Voice Agent Driver)

• Link Control4 connected water sensors for added security

• Custom Leak Alarm with automatic water shut built in

• Cloud-based communication using OAuth 2.0, MQTT, and advanced web sockets

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Already have a water shutoff system and looking for better control? CinDev has developed a Water Agent that provides many of these features for other water control valves like LeakSmart and C&S (Dammit). CinDev's Water Agent can be purchased here! 

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DRIVER TRIAL AND SHOWROOM PROJECT

All Cinegration Development drivers for Control4 come with a 7-day trial to give dealers the opportunity to test the features of any driver before selling it to a customer. To activate your 7-day trial, simply add the DriverCentral licensing driver along with this driver.

All dealers that are registered on DriverCentral are granted a “Showroom Project” for all Cinegration Development drivers. A Showroom Project allows dealers to activate drivers for a single showroom, giving the dealer the opportunity to demo and showcase the benefits of our drivers to your clients.

**The Showroom Project requires a minimum annual purchase of $250. If the minimum purchase per year is not maintained, the showroom project will be automatically removed from your account and will be restored once the purchase minimum of $250 per year has been met.

The Future of Energy: Smart Energy Management Solutions

Cinegration Development is at the forefront of Smart Energy Management, partnering with industry leaders to create the world's first energy automation system for smart energy storage, configuration, and management. 

Continue reading to learn how CinDev is involved and why an energy management solution is crucial for smart home projects.

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How is Cinegration Development Part of the Future of Smart Energy Management?

Cinegration Development has spent the last several months working with leaders in the energy management industry to design and develop the world's first smart energy management solution for energy automation. CinDev developed the software to provide a stored energy management platform that allows smart homes to dynamically manage energy stored in the home's sonnen ecoLinx batterie. The software enables smart configurable backup, a weather response system, and smart energy consumption monitoring for Control4 systems using sonnen batteries.

With a sonnen ecoLinx batterie, an Eaton smartbreaker, and Cinegration Development's driver for Control4 systems, smart homes can now dynamically control the use of stored clean energy.

Check out the brochure to learn more about specific application and use cases and why integrators should offer this solution to customers. 

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What is Energy Automation?

Energy automation is the convergence of home automation and energy management, specifically enabling intelligent energy storage to manage how smart homes are powered. The ecoLinx “energy ecosystem” augments Control4 systems by integrating them with residential solar and energy storage, bringing clean tech to smart homes and enabling the ecoLinx to manage how energy is consumed and devices are powered throughout the home.  

The operation of a smart home can be significantly enhanced by properly controlling how homes use energy. Traditional use cases center the home automation experience on providing the ultimate comfort and convenience to the homeowner by tailoring each system to their specific needs and wants. With energy automation, smart homes take this experience to another level by managing the energy consumption of the home without requiring the owner to plan or react to changes in energy availability, e.g., power outages or peak times of day.

Click here to view the TechTalk discussion at CEDIA.

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Control smart home's stored energy in Control4! With automated responses to weather and changes in energy availability, smart homes have never been more efficient. This driver not only allows customers to dynamically manage their energy use, but also provides the ability to configure responses to weather conditions throughout the home. Watch the video to learn more about the sonnen energy management system.

Driver Highlights:

• See battery state from any Control4 MyHome interface

• Launch sonnen Dashboard via T3 touchscreens

• Multiple Event and Conditional abilities to create custom scenes and macros for homeowners

• Control4 Programming Features:

• Events:

  • State changes to profiles

  • When AC Frequency, Voltage changes

  • When Battery Voltage Changes

  • When Battery Level changes

  • When Grid Offline/Online

  • When generating PV (solar) energy.

• Composer Variables

  • AC_Frequency (number)

  • AC_Voltage (number)

  • Battery_Level (number) %

  • Battery_Voltage (number)

  • House_Consumption_Watts (number) -> amount of energy being consumed right now by the home

  • PV_Consumption_Watts (number) -> amount of energy being produced right now by the solar array

• Conditionals

  • Battery Level (High, Medium, Low)

  • Grid Power Connected (Online = grid power on)

  • Generating Solar (is/is not)

  • Battery Charging (is/is not)

  • Active Profile (Time of Use, Self Consumption, etc...)

Click here to learn more about the sonnen ecoLinx driver.

CEDIA Recap - See What Cinegration Development was up to during the Week!

A Look Inside What Cinegration Development's CEDIA Experience!

Now that we've all had a week to recuperate and digest all of the exciting information from CEDIA, let's take a look at what Cinegration Development was up to at the convention! Continue reading to check out some great highlights and learn about the new drivers we've been working on!

Cinegration Development at CEDIA

AJ is a lead developer for Cinegration Development and spent the week at CEDIA meeting with manufacturers, brainstorming with developers, and taking in all that CEDIA has to offer. 

While at CEDIA, Cinegration Development presented the concept for our new smart energy driver, collaborated with developers from around the globe, participated in a TechTalk on smart energy, and we released our brand new August Smart Lock driver. 

Left to right: Cody Crossland | Blackwire, Kevin Luther | Blackwire, AJ Brunson | Cinegration Development, Paul Biron | DomoSapiens, Richard Caton | Janus Technology, Alan Chow | Chowmain, Chris Allen | SnapAV, Seth Johnson | Blackwire

AJ from Cinegration Development meeting with the Control4 Developers Council, hosted by Eldon Greenwood from Control4.  The council consisted of driver developers from around the world at CEDIA Expo 2018 in San Diego. 

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TechTalk

Energy Automation: Powering Smart Homes with Clean Energy

Cinegration Development has been working hand in hand with some of the top talent in the energy management industry. CinDev developed the software to provide an energy storage management platform that allows smart homes to dynamically manage stored energy. The software enables smart configurable backup, a weather response system, and smart energy consumption monitoring for Control4 systems using Sonnen batteries. 

AJ served as a panelist for CEDIA's brand new TECH TALK series alongside Blake Ricetta with Sonnen, Gordon van Zuiden with CyberManor, Ron Callis with OneFirefly, and Troy Morgan with PanTech Designs.The group presented the ideas behind the future of smart energy, explained the cutting edge technology that will support it, and discussed why it is imperative that dealers adopt smart energy management into their projects. 

Sonnen was the busiest booth at CEDIA this year! More conference goers stopped by Sonnen's Smart Energy booth where AJ talked one on one with dealers to explain the software he built for Sonnen batteries. See what CE Pro had to say about 'the most popular newcomer at CEDIA 2018.'

Click here to view the discussion!

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Make your front door smarter with an August Smart Lock Pro + Connect. Go keyless to lock and unlock your door from anywhere with your phone. Give keyless entry to family, friends or even the dog walker. And the lock easily attaches to your existing deadbolt; use your existing key at anytime. Now available for Control4. 
 

Driver Highlights:

• Get lock status & instant lock status updates 

• Operate the lock 

• View lock activity 

• View lock users 

• Activate routines or scenes based on lock events 

• Get push notifications within Control4 

• Secure, uses OAuth implementation so no need to access customer account info 

• More features and integration with August Doorbell Cam Pro and August Smart Keypad coming soon

Click here to learn more about the August Smart Lock driver.