Control4 Google Calendar

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SKU: JOO-G-CALENDAR Category: Tags: , , Brand:

This driver integrates with Google Calendar to provide you with the ability to view events you have set to occur today and in the next 7 weeks right from your Control4 navigator. The driver can also hold various bits of information about your events that you can easily use in Composer programming.

Composer 2.10+ required. OS3 Compatible.

This driver uses Google’s oAuth API and has passed their verification tests.

Features

  • Variables:
    • Number of events today
    • Number of All-Day events today
    • Number of events in next 7 days
    • Next Event details
    • Notified Event details
    • First All-Day event details (for today)
  • Notification system – have a Composer action fired X minutes before each event and program based on the “Notified Event” variables.
  • View your day’s events on any Control4 navigator
  • View all upcoming events for the next week on any Control4 navigator
  • Multiple driver instance support
  • Access any calendar associated to a Google account
  • Check for upcoming events at the start of every hour automatically
  • Check for the day’s events every day at midnight automatically
  • Create events directly from Control4 Navigator

Use Cases

  • Announce all events 1 hour before they occur
  • Send email/push notification out with number of events due today
  • Announce number of events today and in the upcoming week along with your first event of the day
  • Program Control4 commands based on event description, title and location

You can view a PDF of the driver documentation using the button below or you can follow the setup instructions below.

View Documentation PDF

To setup this driver, follow the following steps:

    1. Install the driver and BlackWire Driver Manager (if not already installed)
    2. Enter your license key in the License Key property field and wait for your License Status to say License Verified
    3. Go to the Actions tab and press Run OAuth Authorization
    4. Go to the Lua tab and find the line which tells you what your code is, copy that code down
    5. Visit https://www.google.com/device and enter the code from the Lua output. Sign into your Google account and authorize access to your Google Calendars
    6. Wait for the Lua tab to say you have been authorized and go to the Properties tab and select which calendar you wish to use this driver with.
    7. Once you have selected your calendar the driver should be good to go.

BlackWire Driver Manager

This driver requires BlackWire Driver Manager and OS 2.10+ to work.

Release Notes

Version 9 - (January 21, 2020)
  • Added ability to create events from C4 navigators. Note: this requires you to reauthorize your Google account
  • Added ability to view logged in account details and log out of that account
  • Added ability to begin account log in/authorization from C4 navigators
  • Added ability to select calendar from C4 navigators.
  • Fixed bug where event starting at midnight tomorrow would show in today\'s events
  • Updated documentation
Version 8 - (August 09, 2019)
  • Added NEXTEVENTSTART_TIME variable
  • Added NOTIFIEDEVENTSTART_TIME variable
Version 7 - (August 01, 2019)
  • Added variables relating to All Day Events
  • Minor bug fixes
Version 6 - (July 31, 2019)
  • Bug with fix with events not always refreshing
  • Better logging
Version 5 - (July 30, 2019)
  • Logging updates
  • Get Upcoming Events action renamed to Refresh Events and now reloads today\'s events
  • Check for today\'s events every hour instead of every day
Version 4 - (July 23, 2019)
  • Encode calendar IDs to fix rare bug
  • Fix UI issue where Selected Calendar would be blank
Version 3 - (July 21, 2019)
  • OAuth bug fixes
Version 2 - (July 21, 2019)
  • Minor bug fixes
Version 1 - (July 17, 2019)
  • Initial Release

We have been Control4 dealers for over 10 years and have now started driver development after working with customers who seemed to be after the same sort of functionality which wasn’t available.