Crestron Remootio Driver

The AchKayEm Remootio driver brings a Remootio gate or garage door controller into a Crestron control system. It talks to the device directly over your local network using Remootio's WebSocket API, encrypted and authenticated end to end as the API requires. Nothing is routed through Remootio's cloud and nothing leaves the site.

It is a Crestron Certified Drivers SDK driver (V2 Entity Model) with the native Garage Door device type. In SIMPL it is driven through Crestron's stock *Crestron Device Drivers Entry* module on a 4-Series processor, and it appears as a garage door in Crestron Home. It works the same whether the Remootio drives a gate or a garage door.

Feedback follows the gate - Open and closed state comes from the device's own events, so the control system stays correct when the gate is operated from a handheld remote, the Remootio app or a keypad. The driver also tells the program whether the installation has a position sensor at all, so a user interface can show "no sensor" instead of an unknown state.

Commands that behave like a remote - Toggle is a relay pulse, exactly what a handheld remote sends, so it works on every installation, sensor or not. Hold Open keeps the gate open for a configurable number of minutes using the device's own hold-output feature. A gate command is never sent late: if it cannot go within two seconds of the press it is dropped and logged rather than sent later.

Built for unattended sites - The driver reconnects by itself after a network interruption, raises an error when a gate does not finish moving within a minute, and surfaces the device's error codes with plain-English descriptions. Serial number, hardware generation and API version are read from the device.

Requirements - A Remootio device with the WebSocket API enabled in the Remootio app (Settings, Software, Websocket API); the API Secret Key and API Auth Key shown there are entered in the driver's configuration. Hold Open needs device software 2.24 or later. Position feedback needs a Remootio position sensor. A Crestron 4-Series control system.

Licensing - Every load begins a 30-minute trial, so the driver can be evaluated with no key. Activation is an AchKayEm license key entered in the driver's configuration, or, on a site with no internet, an offline activation code pasted into the same field. The license is stored on the processor and re-checked on every load without any call to the licensing service, so an activated system keeps working without internet access.

The download is a zip holding the driver package, the manual (PDF), the feature list and the change log.