Control4 Shelly: Setup Virtual Components

Control4 Shelly: Setup Virtual Components



What Are Virtual Components

Shelly Virtual components are Variables on Shelly's side which can be user created and accessed/modified by Control4, to perform custom actions on Shelly's side or Control4's side

Chowmain currently supports:
  1. Buttons 
  2. Boolean
  3. Enum
  4. Number
  5. Text Number

Group Virtual Components are NOT supported

Requirements:

  1. Chowmain Shelly Driver 20260407 is required
  2. Compatible Shelly Hardware. This is generally Gen3+ or Pro (Gen2 Only) devices
  3. Composer Pro
  4. Basic Technical knowledge may be required  

To use Shelly Virtual Components

  1. Setup Virtual Components on Shelly webpage
  2. Add The Host Device to the project
  3. SHELLY_COMPONENT bindings will be created for all compatible virtual components: 
  4. Add Shelly Component Controller to Project and Bind to the SHELLY_COMPONENT :
  5. Use Events, variables and Bindings created as required. Please ensure that you use the correct variable. VALUE_NUMBER as an example may not update correctly for alphanumeric text values as an example. New bindings may be added in the future as required: 
  6. We offer commands/actions in the Module NG driver to allow variables to be changed from Control4's side (if read-write access is available). The Variables may be modified too as an alternative (please note, if invalid data is sent, it may fail) 

  

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