| 15 | | As all Wiki pages, this page is editable, this means that you can |
| 16 | | modify the contents of this page simply by using your |
| 17 | | web-browser. Simply click on the "Edit this page" link at the bottom |
| 18 | | of the page. WikiFormatting will give you a detailed description of |
| 19 | | available Wiki formatting commands. |
| | 11 | Before this plug-in, you cold install an Evolve LCD1 into Vera just like any other Z-Wave device and it works as a generic 5-button scene controller. However, you could not modify the LCD screen or take advantage of other advanced features. |
| 26 | | You can use [wiki:TracAdmin trac-admin] to configure |
| 27 | | [http://trac.edgewall.org/ Trac] to better fit your project, especially in |
| 28 | | regard to ''components'', ''versions'' and ''milestones''. |
| | 15 | This is an early pre-release version which I wanted to release for comments. Not all planned features are yet implemented. |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | === Currently working features === |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | * Switch between 9 different screens from the Vera dashboard |
| | 20 | * Select labels for 6 different custom screens. Each screen can have 5 labels and each label can have 1 or 2 lines of text. |
| | 21 | * Each screen can trigger 5 different scenes. Toggle mode buttons have separate activate and deactivate scenes. |
| | 22 | * Detailed configuration options predefined in the Device Option tab. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | === Known bugs / unimplemented features === |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | * Currently, there is no way to set the five button modes (momentary, toggle etc.) independently for each screen |
| | 27 | * Sometimes, the current labels are not displayed in the C1-C6 tabs. If this occurs, click the reload button on your browser. |
| | 28 | * There may be some reliability issues where labels are sometimes not displayed correctly when you switch screens, or else the device reboots and briefly shows its splash screen momentarily. |
| | 29 | * Temperature/thermostat integration is still not fully baked, but you can get an idea of what is possible. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | == Installation == |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | If you have previously included your Evolve LCD1 controller into your Z-Wave network, exclude it first. |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | Now install the app from the Mios Marketplace as you would any other plug-in. However, once installed, it will not automatically generate an icon. |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | Now include the LCD1 controller like any other Z-Wave device. Note that the inclusion process may take a little longer than usual. You may first see a generic scene controller icon. Then it will disappear, and it will then be replaced with the Evolve LCD1 icon. |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | Clicking on the wrench icon, you will see various tabs. The most important are named "C1" through "C6" and they control the labels in up to 6 custom screens. When the device is first created, these labels are filled in with numbers from One to Thirty spelled out, but you can change them to whatever you want. |
| | 40 | |
| | 41 | '''Note:''' In the current version, you must type all of the 5 labels in a screen into the appropriate edit boxes before pressing the "Update" button even if some labels will not change. |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | == Connecting scenes == |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | For now, you create scenes the same way as you usually do for other Vera scene controllers. Create a scene from the automation tab and assign it a trigger from the Evolve LCD1 Controller, **''not**'' a device called "Evolve LCD1 Z-Wave". Each screen has its own set of 5 scene numbers triggered by the five buttons from top to bottom: |
| | 46 | * Custom 1: Scenes 1-5 |
| | 47 | * Custom 2: Scenes 6-10 |
| | 48 | * Custom 3: Scenes 11-15 |
| | 49 | * Custom 4: Scenes 16-20 |
| | 50 | * Custom 5: Scenes 21-25 |
| | 51 | * Custom 6: Scenes 26-30 |
| | 52 | * Preset 1: Scenes 31-35 |
| | 53 | * Preset 2: Scenes 36-40 |
| | 54 | * Temperature: Scene 41 for the top button and scene 45 for the bottom button. |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | The Evolve LCD1 can itself be part of a scene to change the screen as part of another scene. For example, you can have one set of controls in the morning and a different screen in the evening by using a pair of time-based scenes to switch the screen twice per day. |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | == How it works == |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | This is a hybrid Vera device. Most devices in Vera are either Z-Wave or Lua devices. The Evolve LCD1 is both. In order to do this, two devices are created: The "Z-Wave device" and the "Peer device" but only the peer device displayed in the main UI5 devices page or on the dashboard. This dual-device strategy works around a limitation in the Vera architecture whereby Z-Wave devices cannot execute Lua commands. It also allows us to dispatch different scenes depending on what screen mode the device is in. |
