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With this app, you can remotely control Vera using your mobile phone for FREE. This is a secure way to control MiOS without installing any software on your phone. This mobile phone interface?s design is modest, and it has only plain text, but it works with nearly all phones that have a data connection, and it's free. The connection is secure; the username and password are always encrypted, just like when you do online banking on your mobile phone. This is a basic HTML/WAP interface for accessing your Vera from any mobile phone that has web capabilities. This is a text-only interface which should work fine even on old mobile phones with primitive WAP browsers. There's nothing to setup or configure, and it takes less than 1 minute to get going. What you need:A mobile phone with a web browser and data plan. How it works: First, install the Basic Mobile Web Interface plugin is on your Vera system by visiting the Dashboard from a computer, go to the MiOS Market Section, click +/Add and select the Basic Mobile Web Interface. Then, from your mobile phone visit https://cp.mios.com/mobile and supply your myMiOS account login (username and password you created on the https://cp.mios.com webpage) and select the "Basic text-only" button. If you have more than 1 Vera on the account, you will be prompted to select which one you want to control. If you choose to save this password on your phone remember that if you lose your phone you should go to cp.mios.com right away and change your password. You will see a page on your phone that is similar to Vera's Dashboard, but much simpler with no fancy graphics or formattin. Note that you can also use cp.mios.com/mobile from a normal web browser, too. It won't be as pretty as the normal dashboard, but if you have a really bad internet connection the page loads much faster.  
This free plugin connects a DSC Alarm Panel with Vera via an IT-100 interface board or compatible interface. What you need: DSC Alarm Panel, IT-100 interface board or compatible interface. How it works: To make it easy to handle different panel features, the plugin defines three different devices on your Vera: Main device: This represents the panel itself. The main tab contains:
Partition Subdevices On the main tab the device shows the partition status ('Ready', 'In Alarm', 'Disarmed', etc), and has five buttons to send commands to the partition: 'Away', 'Stay', 'Armed no Entry Delay', 'Arm with Code', 'Disarm'. Events are generated on status changes. Zones and Sensors Each zone is represented as a sensor device. Currently, you can select which appears as 'Smoke sensors' and which as 'Motion sensors'. There's no functional difference between them, but a UI can list them apart, or show different icons. Events are generated on status changes. Setup: If the IT-100 interface is connected to Vera with an USB-Serial adapter, there should appear a serial port device. The MiOS Marketplace will let you create the main alarm panel device; then you have to associate the serial port with the main panel device. Partitions and zones are configured on the panel itself. Note the number of each one (partitions are numbered 1-8, zones are 1-64) and open the main panel device. Go to the 'Advanced' tab, and set three variables, all with the service ID "urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:AlarmPanel1": 'ActivePartitions' : A comma-separated list of the partition numbers configured on the panel. 'MotionSensors' : A comma-separated list of the zone numbers that represent motion sensors. 'SmokeSensors' : A comma-separated list of the zone numbers that represent smoke sensors. After setting these variables, close the dialog and hit the 'Save' icon. Vera will restart and the plugin will create one subdevice for each parition and zone. Images: Main Panel  Partition Panel 
Energy Plugin allows you to see the live and historical energy usage in your home. By installing this plugin on your cp.mios.com account, just press the ?Energy Usage? button to see the graphs. How it works: The "Energy Alerts & Profiling" plugin performs three separate but related functions: 1.) Energy monitoring This function doesn't need any configuration or setup; therefore it doesn't have a panel on the energy plugin. It will monitor every energy-reporting device and calculate energy use for 'switch' and 'dimmer' devices with configured 'Watts' variable. Every 30 minutes Vera gathers reports and sends them to the mios.com servers, so you can see the power you're using, both as total, per device and per room. 2.) Energy alerts This lets you configure some limits to power us. At defined times Vera will check the total watts used (adding all power-reporting and power-calculated devices), or the number of lights turned on, or if a thermostat is running. Then, Vera will generate a notification (email or text message) if necessary, so you can make adjustments. 3.) Energy profiling For this you need a 'Whole House' power measurement device already configured. Then, you choose some 'Settle time', the number of seconds it takes for a device to stabilize its power use. For lights it can be very low, just a couple of seconds; but if you have an air conditioner system hooked up to a Vera system-controllable thermostat, or if some switch/light device controls any motorized appliance, you'll have to enter much higher values there, up to a few minutes. When the profile function is started, it will first turn off all controllable devices and then turn them on one by one; taking measurements of the power usage. When it's finished, Vera will send an alert to the chosen user. Images  
This plugin is used with Global Cache gc-100 devices that are Ethernet devices containing a couple serial ports, some relay switches, some infrared transmit ports and some on/off input sensors. Vera can control any setting that the gc-100 offers. This plugin is based on Luup, using the concept of parent-child, or embedded, devices. How it works Each relay/sensor/ir/serial port is logically a separate device, since each one can do something distinct. One relay could be connected to a doorbell, the other to a siren. So, in Luup there is one parent device called the "gc100", which actually doesn't have any UPnP services at all, but it has child devices for each of the sensors/relays/ports. The relays are like on/off switches, so rather than creating our own service, we use the standard UPnP device for a binary switch with the standard UPnP service "SwitchPower". This way any UPnP control point will see the relays and, without any custom work for the gc100, the control point can show them to the user as an on/off switch. There are other device+service files for the inputs and ports. In Luup, you have the concept of a parent device being able to be responsible for the child devices. So, the way we implemented the gc100 is that the parent device has no UPnP services, but it does have a single implementation file "I_GC100.xml", which tells Luup how to implement all the actions from all the services that its child devices may have. There is one implementation file for many devices and services. We could have broken this into separate implementation files; for example, one for each service. However since the implementation is specific to the gc100 and not likely to be re-usable with another device. We put all the gc100 implementation in a single file. 
The Generic IP Camera plugin is used for adding and manipulating the IP Cameras outside of the models that have particular plugins, such as ?Panasonic IP Camera with Pan/Tilt/Zoom?. How it works: If you have bought a IP Camera and you want to add it to Vera, connect the camera to Vera through a network cable. Then, go to the Dashboard and, under MiOS Marketplace, select the Generic IP Camera plugin. Click install and your camera is ready to be used. If you have more than one camera, you can click "install another" to have multiple instances of the plugin. In most cases, IP cameras have a URL method for obtaining a SNAPSHOT or JPG image from the camera. If your camera supports this method, you can then use it with Vera and the cp.mios.com service can archive these snapshots over time for security purposes. Most IP/Network cameras made in the past few years will have a JPG Snapshot mode. Some examples from Linksys are WVC54GCA, WVC200/WVC210. D-link, Trend-Net, and many others make similar cameras. If your camera is not a 'Plug and Play' model or not on the supported list, you have to specify the settings for the camera by going to the 'Devices' tab on Vera's setup page, adding the camera if it's not already there, and clicking the '+' icon to edit the camera's settings. You will need to specify: 1. The IP address or domain name of the camera 2. The URL or path to retrieve the current image from the camera as a JPEG file 3. Any username and password to retrieve the JPEG file The URL (your camera's manual may denote this as "path" or "snapshot address") needs to retrieve the actual JPEG file, not just an HTML page that has the JPEG file somewhere on it. For example, if you can view a JPEG file from your camera with this URL: http://192.168.81.5/Snapshot.JPG?Quality=Standard, then put in these settings: IP Address: 192.168.81.5 Path: Snapshot.JPG?Quality=Standard Be sure to provide the username/password if one is needed. After you specify this information, click the red 'Save' button, and then you can see the camera by clicking the 'View Camera' option. Attached Pictures: 
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This is a particular plugin used for adding and manipulating the PanasonicIP Cameras. All the settings are similar to the Generic IP Camera, but this has some features added corresponding with the Panasonic IP Camera settings and features such as Pan/Tilt/Zoom functions. The most important function for the Panasonic IP Cameras is that they can be used WIRED or WIRELESS. How it works: he Panasonic IP Cameras have a switch on the bottom: WIRED/WIRELESS. In order to connect your camera wirelessly to Vera, you'll need to follow these steps: - Set the switch to WIRED - Connect your camera to Vera's LAN port using an Ethernet cable - Turn the camera on, confirm Vera's LAN LED turns orange, and wait for the IP Cam LED to turn green - Wait for the camera to be detected in Devices -> Unassigned Device - Assign the camera to a 'Room' and click 'Save' - For the camera to be detected it should have the default username/password: dceadmin/dcepass and listen on port 80 - Confirm that you can see images from the camera - Click on the "+" sign near your camera and note its IP address (e.g. 192.168.81.200) - Connect your computer to the same network as your camera - Open your web browser and type in: http://camera1_ip (in this example, http://192.168.81.200) - Login with the default camera username: dceadmin and password: dcepass - Go to Setup -> Wireless and set SSID, Cipher and Password to Vera's wireless settings which can be found an the bottom of Vera. (default Cipher is WPA2-PSK) - Click 'Save Settings' turn the camera's bottom switch to WIRELESS and reboot your camera by cycling its power Your camera should now connect wirelessly to Vera. If you change your Vera's wireless settings you'll have first to update them on your cameras, so you won't lose connection to them.  This is a basic HTML interface for accessing Vera from a smartphone web browser. This app works with any smartphone with a web browser such as iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Smartphones and most other brands. You can use it over Wi-Fi within the home. How it works: This is a secure way to control Vera without installing any software on your phone. It works with all phones that have a web browser and it's free. First, be sure the SmartPhone plugin is installed on any Vera system you want to control this way. Install the plugin by going to the Vera Systems tab, selecting the "Control Panel" for the Vera you want to control, go to the Dashboard, and in the MiOS Market Section, click +/Add and select the SmartPhone Web Interface. Then, visit https://cp.mios.com/mobile and supply your myMiOS account login and select the "SmartPhone" button. Note: If you have more than 1 Vera on this account you will be prompted to select which one you want to control.  
This plugin is used to setup and control the Somfy blind control device, which is a simple 1-way serial device. The Somfy documentation explains that you talk to the controller using RS232 9600 Baud, 8 Data Bits, 1 Stop Bit, No Parity. The interface supports up to 16 blinds. The communication is one-way only; there are no response codes or incoming data from the blinds when they change manually. Here is the relevant section from the manual. How it works:To use the Somfy plugin, follow these steps: 1. Go to Dasboard → MiOS Marketplace and click the + sign and select from the list the Somfy blind interface plugin and click 'install', then click 'save'. 2. When the data is saved wait for the 'continue' to appear, then click it. Then click 'Devices' you will be asked to specify the room the Somfy Blind Interface is in. 3. Go to Devices, Luup Plugins, click 'Serial Port Configuration'. Find the serial port which you connected the Somfy interface to. Set the Baud to 9600, Parity to None, Data Bits to 8, Stop Bits to 1, and in the 'used by device', choose 'Somfy Blinds'. 4. Umder Devices, find the Somfy blind interface, click the 'wrench key' button and go to the Advanced tab. In the box marked 'BlindIds' put in a list of all the blind numbers which are active. The Somfy interface supports 16 blinds, and Vera cannot know which of those 16 ports are actually connected to blinds. So rather than just displaying 16 blinds when you probably only have a couple hooked up, Vera expects you to enter in the "ID" field which ports actually have blinds. Each number must be 2 digits, padded with a 0, and separated with a comma, with no spaces. So if you have blinds connected to ports 5, 9 and 12, enter in the ID box: 05,09,12. By default you will have blinds 01 and 02. 5. In the box UrtsiId, change the 01 to a single exclamation point, ie the '!' character, if you are using an URTSI version 1. For version 2, you can normally leave the 01 as the default, unless it's set to a different house id. 6. Click 'Save'. Wait for the 'continue' button appear, click it. Wait about 30 seconds for the Somfy interface to startup up. Under Devices you will see the new blinds that you specified in #3. Pick the rooms they are in, and you're done. 
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