This can be used to access your Control4 lights/relays/etc through Siri. The benefit is not having to set up homebridge or buy expensive drivers to integrate. Flask is used to serve up API endpoints which are authenticated through the PyControl4 package.
Installation
- Clone the package and change the passfile. The environment variables are already set up and all you need to do is enter the appropriate information for each and then change the filename to
.env. You can find the IP address of your controller by logging into your router and looking at the clients or run an nmap scan of your subnet with something likenmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 - Install the requirements with
pip3 install -r requirements.txt - You need to find the item ID of the light/relay/etc you want to change. To do this, run the
get_item_ids.pyfile and it will output all of your C4 controller information. It will be alot but you can search through it and find the item ID's that you need and change them in the script. - Once you find the item ID of a light for example you would go into the
lights.pyfile and change the number where it creates the C4Light object. So it would belight = C4Light(director, <lightnumber>). The same goes for relays in the garage file. - Run the program with
python3 main.pyand it serve up the endpoints. - Now the important part, go to the shortcuts app on your IPhone, add a new shortcut, hit add action, and then search for "get contents of url"
- Click that and enter the IP and port that flask is running on as well as the endpoint you are trying to hit. For example, a garage would be
<IP>:<PORT>/garage/toggle - Change the request type to POST and then add form data with the environment variable you set for FLASKPASS. So it would end up something like
pw:FLASKPASS - Give the new shortcut a name and you can now use Siri with Control4