The popularity of home automation has been increasing greatly in recent years due to much higher affordability and greater simplicity via smartphone and tablet connectivity.  Home automation gives users total control over their home devices.QNAP’s Turbo NAS have been fully integrated into mainstream home automation systems and this tutorial will guide you in setting up your Turbo NAS with various control systemson the market.

About this tutorial

The following tutorial will guide you how to setup QNAP Turbo NAS with Control4 system. The Control4 controller will automatically synchronize with the media library in the NAS, and you can play movies on the Control4 system with one remote.

Before getting started, you need…

• Basic Control4 system knowledge
• The license of Control4 composer software and controller devices
• One QNAP Turbo NAS with HD Station, using firmware v4.1 or higher versions

This tutorial will be demonstrated with the following devices and software.

• QNAP Turbo NAS TS-470 Pro with firmware 4.1
• Control4 controller HC-250
• Control4 remote controller SR-250
• Control4 composer v2.5.0

 

 

Setup controller HC-250

In Control4 composer, in the menu of project name (left button of mouse), simply enter a name for your project.

 

Add a controller into the project

Under “My Driver” in the right sub-window, double click the controller model name for your unit (ex: HC-250), and thenthe controller will be added into your project.

 

Pair the controller

To identify the unit in the same network domain, go to the “Network” tab in “Connection” page on the left.  Double click on the added controller in the middle column, and the dialog prompt will show up.   Follow the instructions on the dialog prompt to pair your unit.  Click the “ID” button on the back of the controller (the button of number 10).

 

Enable zigbee server on HC-250

In order to pair the remote controller SR-250, you have to run the zigbee server on the controller.

Click “Edit Zigbee Configuration”. The Zigbee Network Settings dialog will be prompted.

Click “Ok” on “Zigbee Network Settings” and the server will be started.

The status in the “Properties” page will not refresh automatically. So please click “Refresh Status” to confirm that the status of “Zigbee Server Configuration” is “Enabled”.

 

Setup remote controller SR-250

Please refer the following link to configurate the system remote control SR-250 http://www.control4.com/documentation/Composer_Pro_User_Guide/configure_system_remote_control_v3,_sr-250.htm

Install the driver in the composer

Navigate to:“Driver”>“Add Driver”

Locate the driver file on your computer (for example: mediaplayer_ip_qnap_hdstation.c4i)

In order to confirm the driver is already installed, you have to navigate to the “search” tab on the right sub window.  Enter “qnap” in the textfield and if the driver is installed, the “HD Station” will show up.

 

Setup network attached storage

Double click the: My Drivers > Storage > Network File Storage

Setup your network address (IP address or domain name), username and password under the “Properties” of the “Network File Storage”.

 

Manually scan media content (Optional)

Navigate to the “Media” Page on the left and choose “Network File Storage”, click “Scan” on the right.  The controller will then scan the shared media files on the network.

Click “Scan” to refresh the media list on your network storage