giraffplus:home-configuration
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| ====== Basic computer setup ====== | ====== Basic computer setup ====== | ||
| - | * Get access to the XLab SVN. Contact Ales Stimec to get a password for Xlab's SVN server. Ales' email address is ales.stimec@xlab.si. At the same time you should also ask for browser and VPN certificates that are used to access the web-based " | + | * **Get access to the XLab SVN**. Contact Ales Stimec to get a password for Xlab's SVN server. Ales' email address is ales.stimec@xlab.si. At the same time you should also ask for browser and VPN certificates that are used to access the web-based " |
| - | * Download and install an SVN client, either the basic command line client from http:// | + | |
| - | * Check out the Giraff+ source code, for convenience we will check out the entire repository in this tutorial. The adress to the repository is https:// | + | * **Check out the Giraff+ source code**, for convenience we will check out the entire repository in this tutorial. The adress to the repository is https:// |
| - | * Install Java and Maven, this can be done with an automatic setup script found in the SVN. Run https:// | + | * **Install Java and Maven**, this can be done with an automatic setup script found in the SVN. Run https:// |
| - | * Download and install PCConnect from Tunstall, you can find the software at the following location: http:// | + | * **Download and install PCConnect** from Tunstall, you can find the software at the following location: http:// |
| ====== Configuring the sensors on the Connect+ ====== | ====== Configuring the sensors on the Connect+ ====== | ||
| - | * Connecting to the VI+ device, plug in the VI+ device to the power outlet and connect the Tapit adapter to the computer and the VI+. After this has been done, run PCConnect, the | + | * **Connecting to the VI+ device**, plug in the VI+ device to the power outlet and connect the Tapit adapter to the computer and the VI+. After this has been done, run PCConnect, the software should search for and find the VI+ and you should be presented with the following screen which we will refer to as the “main screen”: |
| - | software should search for and find the VI+ and you should be presented with the following screen which we will refer to as the “main screen”: | + | |
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| * If you have both the gray and white VI+, make sure that you don't mix up the transformers since one of them provides AC and the other one DC. | * If you have both the gray and white VI+, make sure that you don't mix up the transformers since one of them provides AC and the other one DC. | ||
| - | * Configure the sensors on the device, prepare the sensors which you want to use, then press and hold the green button on the VI+, release the green button when you hear a beep and repeat the procedure once more. After you have done this the VI+ device is in registration mode. This means that you can register sensors on the device by triggering them, for the door contact sensors this is done by putting the magnet part to the universal sensors sensing area. The PIR sensor can be configured similarly by moving in front of it. When all sensors have been set up press the green button once. | + | * **Configure the sensors on the device**, prepare the sensors which you want to use, then press and hold the green button on the VI+, release the green button when you hear a beep and repeat the procedure once more. After you have done this the VI+ device is in registration mode. This means that you can register sensors on the device by triggering them, for the door contact sensors this is done by putting the magnet part to the universal sensors sensing area. The PIR sensor can be configured similarly by moving in front of it. When all sensors have been set up press the green button once. |
| * The grey VI+ device uses the speaker to tell you when a sensor has been registered, the old white one does not seem to do so. | * The grey VI+ device uses the speaker to tell you when a sensor has been registered, the old white one does not seem to do so. | ||
| * Note that the PIR sensor does not trigger at each sensed movement, there is some latency after resending an event, thus you might want to put the PIR sensor in such a way that it is not disturbed my movement before this step. | * Note that the PIR sensor does not trigger at each sensed movement, there is some latency after resending an event, thus you might want to put the PIR sensor in such a way that it is not disturbed my movement before this step. | ||
| * You might want to do this procedure in smaller steps by configuring sensors (with the same type) one at a time, this is because you can not distinguish two different PIR sensors (for instance) in the PCConnect software. | * You might want to do this procedure in smaller steps by configuring sensors (with the same type) one at a time, this is because you can not distinguish two different PIR sensors (for instance) in the PCConnect software. | ||
| - | * Verify that the sensors have been registered and define their locations, first press " | + | * **Verify that the sensors have been registered and define their locations**, first press " |
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| * It might be a good idea to verify that there are no previously configured sensors on the device before doing this configuration step. If there are devices registered simply delete them in the “Radio Triggers & Events” window and “Write” the settings to the VI+. | * It might be a good idea to verify that there are no previously configured sensors on the device before doing this configuration step. If there are devices registered simply delete them in the “Radio Triggers & Events” window and “Write” the settings to the VI+. | ||
| - | * Make a note of the sensors and their location codes, i.e. 61 and 40 in the figure above, you will need this information later.3 Configuring the sensors in the GiraffPlus database | + | * Make a note of the sensors and their location codes, i.e. 61 and 40 in the figure above, you will need this information later. |
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| * While connected to the VPN, and with the browser certificate installed, go to: [[https:// | * While connected to the VPN, and with the browser certificate installed, go to: [[https:// | ||
| * Press “Home” in the “Create” section of the page, name your home to something meaningful and press “Next”. In the following screens you can select authorized organizations and primary users etc., you can hold the CTRL key on the keyboard to select several choices at once. | * Press “Home” in the “Create” section of the page, name your home to something meaningful and press “Next”. In the following screens you can select authorized organizations and primary users etc., you can hold the CTRL key on the keyboard to select several choices at once. | ||
| - | * At the current state this choices are not important since the functionality is not fully implemented. When you get to the “Add” screen add the rooms in which you have placed sensors. When | + | |
| - | you add a new room you also need to add one or more locations to it and this has to be done before naming your room and pressing “Done”. In the locations screen you will enter a two | + | |
| - | digit code, this code needs to correspond to the location code in PCConnect. | + | |
| * The location code and the sensor type is used to distinguish between the sensors, thus you can not have two sensors of the same type at the same location. | * The location code and the sensor type is used to distinguish between the sensors, thus you can not have two sensors of the same type at the same location. | ||
| * The room name is not critical to the setup procedure. | * The room name is not critical to the setup procedure. | ||
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