Contro l4 HC-300 User manual

Home Controller HC-300
The Control4®Home Controller HC-300 makes it easy for everyone to add intelligent
control to their home at an affordable price. The HC-300 allows users to automate
their entire home, including their home theater, multi-room music, lighting,
temperature, security and more.
In the home theater, users are no longer tied to a coffee table cluttered with
remotes. Around your home, adjust and control the lights either individually or
collectively. Free your digital music collection and easily stream it to any room
throughout the home. Check the status of your doors and windows, and adjust the
thermostat. All this is available from the intuitive Control4 interfaces.
It’s all part of the Control4 vision. We bring the benets of a truly automated home
to more people with solutions that are affordable, easy to install and designed to
adapt to any home or lifestyle.
Intelligent Home Control
Features and Benets
Select a movie from your DVD changer
as the TV is automatically powered up
and the correct video input is selected.
Then dim the lights and adjust the
temperature of your home theater all
with simple touches on a single remote
control.
Elegant Design
• Compact footprint — Fits easily into any location.
• Replaces multiple remotes — Allows for replacement of virtually every other remote control
in the house.
Powerful Automation Controller
• Complete home control — Control music, lighting, temperature, blinds and more.
• Complete theater control — Multiple IR and serial outputs and intelligent video sensing make
controlling the entire home theater easy.
• Standards-based control — Devices throughout the home are controlled via communication
over wireless ZigBee™ (802.15.4) mesh networking, Ethernet, or WiFi (adaptor optional).
• Seamless integration — Works with all Control4 components and a comprehensive array of third
party devices.
Easy to Setup and Use
• Control4 Easy Setup Program — Use interview-style wizard to guide through the
installation process.
• Connections made easy — Clearly marked connectors on the back of the device and the
included cables makes set up easy.
• Multiple interfaces — Uses Control4 Touch Screens, Keypads, or included System
Remote Control.
• High Denition — HD on-screen navigation provides large, bright, clear 16x9 graphics
Affordable For Every Customer
• Surprisingly affordable — Allows users to enter the world of home automation with lower
entry costs.
• Replaces other components — Provides home theater control, multi-room audio, and whole
home automation in a single component.
Control4 • 11734 South Election Road • Salt Lake City, Utah 84020 • p: 801.523.3100/1.888.400.4070 • f: 801.523.3199 • www.control4.com

Technical Specications
Model Number
• C4-HC300-B
Connections
• Audio Input: 1 analog
• Audio Output: 2 analog
• Video Input/Output: 2 video sensing inputs; component, S-video, and composite video out
• On-screen display output: SD or HD
• Serial: 2 DB9 RS232 connectors
• Contact: 1 input, pluggable terminal blocks
• Relay: 1 output, pluggable terminal blocks
• IR: 1 front panel input, 1 front panel blaster output
6 outputs, 3.5mm jacks
• USB: 2 rear, USB 2.0
Communications
• Wireless ZigBee (802.15.4) mesh networking
• Ethernet (802.3) 10/100base-T, RJ45 jack
• WiFi (802.11g) – adaptor optional
Power Requirements
• 120 to 240 VAC, 50 or 60 Hertz
Dimensions
• H x W x D: 2.8” x 12” x 7.25”
• Weight: 5.2 lbs (with remote)
Home Controller HC-300
802.11g USB WiFi Adaptor for
Home Controller HC-300
(sold separately)
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Control4 • 11734 South Election Road • Salt Lake City, Utah 84020 • p: 801.523.3100/1.888.400.4070 • f: 801.523.3199 • www.control4.com
Control4 System Remote Control
Included with the Home Controller HC-300
System Remote Control SR-250 — Wire-
less control of any automated function
in the home.