myServer - Adding Lighting

Details

myServer allows for selection of lighting devices to be specific to that room.

Overview

  1. Select compatible lighting technology (like ZWave, Zigbee, Caseta, etc)
  2. Setup the hardware and networking of the lighting "hub"
  3. Add the appropriate driver to myServer 
  4. Configure the driver for the hub.  Typically this will auto import the devices assigned to the hub as well.  Follow the driver's documentation carefully.
  5. Add each light device into a Room
  6. Add the Lighting Icon to the Sources / Apps in Dashboard.  Enable is selected, Name = Lighting, Icon image = /images/lighting.png, Activation macro = activate-source.lighting.
  7. Ensure the Lighting Icon is checked in Sources / Apps per Room
  8. Open the lighting.html webpage
  9. Select the room from the dropdown list
  10. Control the light for that room.  Controls will be appropriate if it's a Switch (on / off) or a Dimmer (on / off / dim)
  11. Optionally build a floorplan view using a graphics program (or hire Allonis's graphical services), place custom buttons on the floorplan view, edit the status variable name and command device names in the buttons.

 

Have fun!