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Rachio Driver for Control4
Blackwire / Control4 / Ver 214 / April 06, 2022Download Now
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IMPORTANT: The driver currently only works on OS3.0 and later. Rachio Hose Timer is not supported by the driver at this time.
The Rachio Driver for Control4 enables control of any Rachio controller’s zones within Control4 Navigator. Automatic bindings based on system size, zone naming, and attached relay driver naming make this driver a breeze to set up. This driver is 2 way and provides instant feedback to events from the Rachio system
Requires the use of the Control4 Sprinkler Experience Button driver. This button allows you to easily toggle different times to water for. In composer search for Sprinkler. It will be dated 4/25/2019.
Features:
- Control any zone with Control4 Navigator
- Compatible with Control4’s Sprinkler Experience Button as well as standard Sprinkler relay drivers
- Programmatically put the Rachio system in and out of standby
- Automatically creates zone bindings for Rachio Systems
- Automatically renames zones and bound drivers as they are configured on Rachio saving setup time
- Multiple Rachio system support
Programming Events:
- All Zones Off or Any specific Zone turning on
- Current Outdoor Temp
- Current Weather
- Power Status of unit
Programming Actions:
- Manually turn on, off or toggle a zone
- Turn the system on or off. IE disable it from running.
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Getting Started
The first step is to ensure you have installed and setup BlackWire Driver Manager. That program is required to move forward with the Rachio installation.
Purchase a license key by adding this product to your cart and checking out. You can find your licenses by going here.
Setting Up Driver
Enter your license key
Head over to https://app.rach.io/locations and sign in to the customer’s account. Then click on the person icon on the top right. (NOTE: If you go to the Rachio home page and not this link, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the page and click Web Login)
Click the Get API Key at the bottom fo the page
Click the Copy button or manually select all of the text and copy them to your clipboard.
Paste the license key in from the Rachio website
If you only have 1 Rachio controller on the account it will auto select the controller in the Rachio System box. If you have more than 1 you will need to select the system here. Once selected it will display the Controller Information below.
Sprinkler Connections
In Composer search for Sprinkler. The driver is dated for 2019 and its file name is timer_sprinkler.c4z
Note: There is no reason to name them anything special. When you bind them to the zone they will auto rename.
Once installed Edit the Countdown Times to something more simple. Our example has 1,5,10,15,20. When you tap the icon from the Control4 interfaces it will start with those times. IE 2 taps = 5 minutes which is displayed in the drivers icon.
The driver will auto rename any sprinkler zone that is active in the Rachio system.
The driver will auto rename any sprinkler zone that is active in the Rachio system.
Navigator Settings
Now it is time to make those icons show up on navigator. Go to System Design and then click on the room name on the left.
1. Click the Navigator Tab
2. Click Modify
3.This shows the current devices and wether they are visible or not. If it is a new install it will not be visible just yet.
1. Select the sprinkler drivers. You can select multiple if you like (our example)
2. Click the show icon which will move them over to Visible Devices
3. Click OK
You can now see the devices are on the left and will be visible.
Click Ok to close the window then Refresh Navigator for the project.
You have now completed the integration!
BlackWire Driver Manager
This driver requires BlackWire Driver Manager and OS 2.10+ to work.
This driver requires the use of the Control4 Sprinkler Experience Button driver. This button allows you to easily toggle different times to water for. In composer search for Sprinkler. It will be dated 4/25/2019.
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Release Notes
- Fixed memory leak in WS function
- New live events server with unlimited capacity, fewer dropped events
- Added new polling rate control for reduced API consumption
- Fixed issue with Blackwire Debug output
- Fixed issue with parsing web hook information
- Fixed 404 Error loop issue which caused some installs to go into a loop when receiving bad data from Rachio.
- Updated BDM API
- Added the ability to turn off auto rename
- Fixed a bug that would rename the incorrect driver
- Fixed a but that incorrectly parsed the bound device type (relay, experience button)
- Added an action button to reset and rebuild web-hooks
- BUGFIX: Fixed issue with licensing script that caused issues with setting valid license [RC4-I14]
- BUGFIX: CurrentTemp variable was being set to STRING instead of NUMBER [RC4-I13] (Note: This may require a driver reinstall to update correctly)
- Added pause command
- Removed all polling (except for weather)
- Fixed notifications, support for more types of events
- Fixed weather variables
- Fixed various persist data issues
- Fixed persist data issues
- Fixed bugs with licensing
- Added additional debug functionality
- BUGFIX: Properties losing values after reboot
- BUGFIX: Persist data issues
- FEATURE: BlackWire Driver Manager is now required
- BUGFIX: Realtime feedback support added to remove need for polling
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