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This driver was created by a Control4 employee in his free time to help users track lights per floor or per room, as well as to provide simple control of that lighting. Your dealer can find this driver in the official Control4 Dealer Forums.

You should add this driver to your project *after* adding all rooms and lights to your project. All lights should be located (in the project) in the rooms they provide lighting for.

This driver creates bindings and variables based on the state of the project when the driver was added, and does NOT re-scan the project for changes after the initial load. This is by design, as the order of the variables and button bindings needs to be consistent in the project over director restarting. Because of this, if you want to change floors or rooms or dimmers in your project, your dealer should *DELETE* this driver and re-add it to the project after the changes are made.

The driver has the following functionality:

* Allows for viewing the status of lights by floor or by room on LEDs of attached keypad buttons.
* Allows control of lights by floor or by room with buttons of attached keypads.
* Calculates status based on either the percentage of lights used, or the percentage of wattage being used.
* Calculates an estimate of the total watts being used by Control4 lighting devices, by project, floor, and room.
* Calculates an estimate of the cost of running the current lighting per hour and per day (assumes 24 hours of lighting at the current levels).
* Allows the user to change the colors displayed for each status.
* Provides the user with a tree-view of Light Usage (percentage and watts) for the entire project.

We’re getting this setup in a house we’re doing that has many lighting loads, and once we get it in place we’ll show you how it works. Stay tuned for more information!