Agent types

• Access—Lets you hide elements of the user interface on a Navigator and use a pin code to change the settings for the Navigator.
• Advanced Lighting Scenes—Lets you change the lighting state, toggle lights, ramp/fade lights, delay on/off, use scene sequencing, flash lights, and so on.
• Announcements—Plays a pre-recorded .WAV file, or displays a text message whenever a given event occurs. You can play an audio announcement on any audio output device with a supporting text message that displays on selected Navigators.

• Backup—Configure settings for automatic project backups to Control4 online services. Requires a 4Sight subscription.

• Communication—Replaces the Intercom agent for systems running OS 2.7 and above. Provides the ability to set up Intercom device groups on the T3 series touch screens—audio and video, and Door Stations (DS2 and DS2 Mini—audio and video) See “Using the Communication agent”.
• Custom Buttons—Lets you make user interface buttons for specialized devices on the Navigators. See “Using the Custom Buttons agent.”

• Email Notification—Lets you send an email message to your email address when specified events occur as defined in programming. See “Using the Email Notification agent.”

Notes: (1) 4Sight is required to use the Email Notification and Push Notification agents. See the Composer Pro Getting Started Guide for details. (2) Avoid setting up email notifications for events that occur frequently (e.g., when a Motion Sensor detects motion). If the email notification trigger event occurs too often, it will cause the system to become sluggish.

• Guest Services—An agent used to interface a local Control4 system to a Guest Services system within a multi-dwelling or hospitality project.
• History—Enables a history tab in drivers built for the History agent, for example, new security drivers built for OS 2.8.+. You can configure settings and view history data from the agent.
• Identity—Provides the ability to change the password for the pro-installer login for System Manager Web and When >> Then automation.

Light Properties—Manage light properties for Control4 Centralized Lighting modules and loads.

• Macros—Macros agents associate programming with events.

Example: You can create one macro to use in several different programming events or to use on a touch screen when creating Favorites. See “Using the Macros agent.”

• Media Scenes—Creates a media scene that plays music in selected rooms on your system. See “Using the Media Scenes agent.”

• Navigation—Add this agent to the system to enable navigation commands in the Programming view for T3 and EA On-Screen Navigators.

• Push Notification—Lets you define a push notification to be sent to your mobile devices as defined in programming.

• Scheduler—Defines conditionals of time to the system, and adds the ability to have scheduled events. See “Using the Scheduler agent.”
• Screen Saver—Lets you set up a Screen Saver agent so you can create various Screen Savers. See “Using the Screen Saver agent.”
• SNMP Configuration—Lets you set up and configure devices to monitor via SNMP. Requires knowledge of SNMP and network management. See Example: Program using the SNMP Configuration agent.
• Timer—Starts, stops, or repeats a timer based on a given event and action.

Example: If a Motion Sensor in the system turns on a light when it detects motion, you can use a timer to turn off the light after 15 minutes. Alternatively, you can set a timer to repeat an action whenever the timer expires. See “Using the Timer agent.”

• UI Configuration—Upload custom wallpaper images and apply wallpapers from both the default set of images and custom images to multiple touch screens and on-screen navigators at once. Supported on T3 touch screens and EA controllers in OS 2.9.0. See “Using the UI Configuration agent”.

• Variables—Create Boolean, string, and number variables. Review “Examples: programming with variables” for information about creating Variable agents.
• Wakeup—Initiates a pre-specified wakeup time in the Navigators. This agent lets you play music, turn on lights, and change temperatures. See “Using the Wake/Sleep agent.”  
• Wakeup/Goodnight—Updated version of the Wakeup agent adding the ability to control shades with a Wakeup scene.

The agent examples listed in the following sections will guide you through the programming steps for each agent type.