Launchport with Buttons

2014 · 4 replies · Features

This thread is a feature request from 2014, preserved from the original Roomie Remote forum. It reflects what users were asking for at the time — many requests from this era have since shipped in Roomie Remote X. See current compatibility for today's device support.

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This product was just announced from Launchport. I don't know exactly how it works yet if the buttons only communicate u — Staff replied: “There is actually quite a bit more needed than that. What's needed is a way to trigger a Roomie action based on an external event.”

Question 2014-08 · older version

This product was just announced from Launchport. I don't know exactly how it works yet if the buttons only communicate using Lutron clear connect, but this would make Roomie unbelievable if you could build in support to configure the buttons. Would love to have hard buttons for volume and system off.

Member 2014-09 · older version

I saw it at CEDIA as well. The only thing we'd need is support for the Lutron Smart Bridge Pro. The Launchport buttons are actually a Lutron Pico remote and they would therefore operate as "phantom" buttons in the Lutron program, so they could be mapped to any function, just as they would in Lutron's Ra2 programming. The only thing we'd need is for the SmartBridge Pro to be supported in Roomie.

Roomie Staff 2014-09 · older version

There is actually quite a bit more needed than that. What's needed is a way to trigger a Roomie action based on an external event. In other words, if I press a button on the LaunchPort with Buttons, Roomie needs to observe that from the Lutron system, and based upon that, trigger a Roomie-level action.

Fortunately, we anticipated that and a new Triggers feature in 3.0 should be able to address this device. That hasn't yet been confirmed though. We plan to take a look.

Thank you.

Member 2014-09 · older version

Will the Triggers feature also make this able to work with, for instance, IFTTT? If <Zwave Lock:Opens> THEN <Roomie:Run Activity:Listen to Whole House Music>

Roomie Staff 2014-09 · older version

Triggers in 3.0.0 supports Lutron Radio RA2 and SmartBridge Pro, and more watch devices will be supported over time.

At this point 3.0.0 was finished 9/15, so a number of things have been added since then, but Apple's queues for apps are so backed up that there is a huge delay.

Thank you.

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