jbmedia Light-Manager Air, Quick Start Manual

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Page 3: ...dditionally the Light Manager features an integrated webserver which allows an autarkic and flexible service as well as a temperature sensor The package includes Light Manager Air Antenna for 433 MHz pre installed Antenna for 868 MHz pre installed 5V power adaptor with micro USB cable approx 1 5 m Quickstart guide Wi Fi compatibility The Light Manager Air uses the 802 11g standard 54 Mbit with WPA...

Page 4: ...r this purpose In case of the FRITZ Box the Wi Fi button has to be pressed for 5 seconds Other models require the WPS mode to be enabled in the configuration interface Now press the button of the Light Manager shortly The LED starts blinking in green As soon as the devices have found each other the LED changes its color to yellow Now network parameters are exchanged connection establishment can ta...

Page 5: ...s open a browser and navigate to 192 168 100 115 A website opens up which allows the configuration of the name SSID and the passphrase for the Wi Fi network After a click on the OK button the Light Manager starts connecting to the selcted Wi Fi network During this phase the LED is blinking in green When this is done the LED stops blinking and changes its color to dim blue to signal operational rea...

Page 6: ...se is wrong 3x Blinking the access point is set to mixed mode WPA WPA2 4x Blinking the access point is set to WEP or Open To delete the credentials you have entered set the device back to factory defaults and start over Reset to factory defaults To reset the Light Manager to factory defaults please proceed as follows Disconnect Light Manager from power Keep button at the front of the Light Manager...

Page 7: ...guration of the Light Manager is done with the software airStudio which can be found in the download section of www jbmedia de free of charge On the left side of the main window there is a table which shows the whole configuration The right part is split into the Scenes section and the Actions section The first section is used to create new scenarios Here you can select what kind of trigger is use...

Page 8: ...cenario has been triggered Among others the selection consists of Actuator commands Infrared commands SONOS commands Network commands Long term and short term pauses Marker commands Manual scene To create a scenario which is triggered by a button in the web interface or by a button on an infrared remote control a click on the Add button is sufficient Right after the click a new scenario appears in...

Page 9: ...255 on your Harmony The number behind the letter L corresponds to the scene number configured in AirStudio Of course the button names appearing on the display of the Harmony can be renamed with the Logitech software If a different remote control other than a Harmony is to be used then the IR code for each button has to be taught to the remote control manually For this purpose there is the learn bu...

Page 10: ...e points of time in the range of 60 minutes randomly So for an observer from outside it is not obvious that this is an automated process Astro function Instead of using fixed points of time it is often desired to couple lighting control to dusk or dawn The Light Manager offers an extensive astro function for this purpose which calculates the times for civil twilight for each day and each location ...

Page 11: ...f 6 hours Perform actions only by night or by day Sometimes it is useful to perform certain actions within a scenario only by day or at night For example you might turn on the living room lights automatically when starting the activity Watch TV on your remote control but only when it is dark outside For this purpose the Light Manager offers the options Only by day and Only at night in the edit men...

Page 12: ...tations openweathermap org out of which the Light Manager selects the station which is closest to the location defined in the astro function settings Note The temperature sensor is located on the layer board of the device Therefore it will heat up slightly after startup when connecting the Light Manager to power This calefaction is compensated automatically However during the first 30 minutes the ...

Page 13: ...is code has been received If it is received several times in a row the Light Manager waits three seconds before it triggers the scenario again This prevents unintended multiple execution of scenarios Front button The button of the Light Manager is an additional convenient input source to trigger two scenarios of your choice depending if the button has been pressed short or long 2 sec The selection...

Page 14: ...a few seconds worldwide This can be very useful for alarm events It is possible to configure two different e mail addresses one for standard notifications and one for alarm notifications with higher priority These addresses can be entered under Options Light Manager setup E mail setup You can activate the notification feature by selecting a scenario in the table and then from the edit or context m...

Page 15: ...ministration To get there click on the little button next the drop down list The actuator administration will show up in a new window In the upper part of the window all actuators and zones are listed which have been added already Zones make it possible to group actuators into logical units like rooms or ...

Page 16: ...d Busch Jäger 433 42 MHz After an actuator has been added it can be named by clicking on it A right click opens a context menu with more menu items There you find options to check in and out the actuator from the Light Manager Note If you have an RF remote control for your actuators it is sufficient to press a button on the remote control to add the corresponding actuator automatically The Light M...

Page 17: ...be tied to scenarios in form of conditions so that a scenario is executed only if one or more markers have a defined state This is done by selecting a scenario in the table and opening the Marker Selection window from the edit or context menu In this window the desired states of the markers can be configured which are required to make this scenario executable All markers are in an AND relation If ...

Page 18: ... on the Browser button opens up the web interface in the default browser instantly There it can be verified and used instantly Web Interface The web interface is the central operating interface for the Light Manager It works on all devices which features a web browser even on a smart watch available for Android Wear and Apple Watch The head line shows the name of the configuration also the inside ...

Page 19: ... the weather chart which shows the course of weather data for the last 48 hours The state of the web interface is saved automatically and restored on startup Under Android and iOS the web interface can be turned into a web app That means that the application will no longer be displayed as a web page in the browser Instead it will have its own icon on the home screen and will be opened full screen ...

Page 20: ...le http 192 168 1 100 user admin pass 123456 Afterwards select Add to home screen as described before From now on the web app will use this data automatically We recommend to delete the browser history eventually as the login data would show up there ...

Page 21: ... of your router given from your Internet provider in the browser The web interface should open up immediately if you have mobile data Now the web interface is reachable from on the go Most DSL connections use dynamic IP addresses This means that the IP address changes once within 24 hours To keep access to your web interface the Light Manager offers DynDNS service free of charge This has just to b...

Page 22: ... the airStudio installation Smaller changes like colors or font sizes can be done directly in the CSS file in this folder When clicking the transfer button AirStudio loads this template and generates your individual web interface This is stored in the folder appdata AirStudio html_temp before it is compressed and uploaded to the webserver of the Light Manager finally In contrast to the html folder...

Page 23: ...n Wi Fi channels 1 11 Wi Fi encryption WPA2 Radio transmission frequencies 433 42 433 92 and 868 35 MHz Radio reception frequencies 433 42 433 92 and 868 35 MHz Infrared transmission frequency 38 kHz Infrared reception frequencies 30 40 kHz Memory capacity 2 Megabyte flash available memory for web interface Supported operating systems of AirStudio software Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Win...

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