Creating a 2-way serial or TCP/IP-controlled driver

You can create most serial drivers using the Driver Wizard in Composer Pro. Instead of capturing the code as you do with IR, you enter the specific serial data that you must send for each command.

Use DriverWorks instead of the Control4 Driver SDK to create 2-way drivers for AV and non-AV devices that are controlled using a serial or TCP/IP connection.

DriverWorks exposes each of the driver APIs previously published through the Control4 Driver SDK (now discontinued). It is an SDK framework that allows 2-way drivers to be written for the Control4 system.

DriverWorks drivers can be written and installed without requiring platform- and version-specific compiling. Using DriverWorks does require some programming skills, but this tool leverages the Lua-embeddable scripting language, which is powerful, fast, and light-weight language (when compared to other scripting languages). DriverWorks comes installed with Release 1.6 and later software releases.

For information on using DriverWorks, refer to the SDK DriverWorks documentation (“Getting Started with DriverWorks”), which is downloadable from the documentation area on the Control4 Dealer Web site: Go to http://dealer.control4.com/dealer/support/software-updates.