rollease acmeda AUTOMATE CONTROL4 Quick Start Manual

QUICK START GUIDE - AUTOMATETM CONTROL4

INTEGRATION SUPPORT

HUB OVERVIEW

Take your Automate experience to the next level by integrating Automate
industry-leading smart home control systems. TSS’s rich integration supports discrete shade control and
features a two-way communication system offering real time shade position and battery level status.

The Pulse Hub supports plug ‘n play RS485 or RS232 Serial integration through a RJ9 port conveniently
located on the back of the hub. Each hub can support integration of up to 30 shades.

CONTROL4 HUB DRIVER INSTALLATION

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motorized shades into Savant’s

1. Connect the Rollease Acmeda Pulse Bridge to an available Control4 serial port.

2. Download the Automate

3. In Composer software, place the Automate

4. Navigate to the connections tab and bind proper serial connection binding to the driver.

a. The driver will automatically find the hubs on the serial connection.

b. If there is only 1 hub, the driver will automatically select the hub and find all shades for the hub and create bindings for them.

5. Select a hub from the ‘Hub Address’ property.

a. The driver will automatically find the shades available for the hub and create connections for them.

6. The “Automate Pulse Hub” driver is now fully functioning.

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Pulse Hub Serial Driver (here).

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Pulse Hub driver into the project.

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CONTROL4 MOTOR DRIVER INSTALLATION

7. For each shade that the “AutomateTM Pulse Hub” has added to the connections, add an “AutomateTM Pulse Shade” driver to the project

8. Bind the “Automate

a. You can use the “Jog” action to more easily identify shades

b. Once the connection has been bound, the driver will automatically populate shade properties

9. Set the ‘Shade Movement Type’ to ‘Move’ or ‘Rotate’ in order to determine what the driver should Control.

a. ‘Move’ will control basic shade movement

b. ‘Rotate’ will control the motor rotation

10. Run the ‘Calibrate’ action on the shade, this will inform the driver of how long it takes for the shade to open and close

11. Refresh Navigators

AUTOMATE

 Simple installation of the hub driver, connect the serial binding and select the hub

 Responsive serial communication

 Automatically calculates the travel time of the motors accurate to within 50ms

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Pulse Shade” drivers to the “AutomateTM Pulse Hub”

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CONTROL4 DRIVER GUIDE

PROPERTIES

Property Description

Auto Update Enables or disables real time updates of the driver

For support of this property the annex4 LiNK driver is required

Driver Version The current version of the driver

Properties The server version of the driver

For support of this property the annex4 LiNK driver is required

Debug Mode Reports information to the log and Lua output window

Modes

Debug Reports the data being moved around

Trace Reports the flow of the driver

Info Reports important pieces of information

Warning Reports any small issues that arise

Error Reports any large issues that arise

Fatal Reports issues that cause the driver to fail

Hub Address The hub address that the driver is primarily communicating to

If only 1 hub is on the serial connection it will be automatically selected when the serial connection is bound

Detected Shades Lists the addresses of all shades discovered on the hub

Terminal Allows the dealer to manually send commands to the automate hub

Commands should be formatted with a starting ! and an ending ;

Responses will show in the property after a couple hundred milliseconds

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