How to operate your home automation with your iPhone-iPad or Android?
- The way for anyone who’s looking for an easy and affordable way to use an iPhone / iPad or Android as remote control for your duotecno domotics system. combined with any (not only Bose) audio video system.
- You decide how many sliders and buttons are needed to control all your lights, screens, curtains (including scenarios), etc…
- You can control the objects divided into zones and each zone can provide an unspecified number of controls.
- The system is bidirectional – Live feedback.
What do you need?
- Smartphone or tablet (Android or Apple) or PC
- Home Network
- Duotecno IP Gateway.
- Duotecno domotics home control system.
How does it work?
- When loading the app, your device connects to the MyURemote server to retrieve your configuration.
- When pressing a command button (e.g. “lights kitchen on”), or moving a slider, the command is sent to your Duotecno gateway
- The Duotecno gateway interface box addresses and passes your command to the Duotecno bus.
- The objects in the Duotecno domotics system are matched to group addresses in the KMyURemote configuration.
How do I connect my domotics with my tablet or smartphone?
- The app connects the IPad with your LAN. (see settings below)
- Connect the Duotecno gateway with you domotics bus and your LAN
Setup
- Open the webbrowser and goto myuremote.com/configuration.
- Log in to your configuration.
- goto: http://www.myuremote.com/userconfig/pages/settings (NOT IONICS SETTINGS!)
- Click on “My Controllers”, “Add controller”, select “duotecno domotica module“
- The Duotecno gateway and your mobile should be connected to the same LAN. Enter the IP address of your Duotecno gateway in the controller settings.
- If you don’t know know the IP of your Duotecno gateway you might use the FIng app:
android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlook.android.fing&hl=nl
ios: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/fing-network-scanner/id430921107?mt=8 - Click on “My Zones”, “Add Zone”, select “Home Control”
- For each element, click “Add element”, enter label, element type and domotics parameter.
The domotics parameters are know by the domotics administrator. But you can also use wireshark (man-in-the-middle setup) to determine the parameters. The result will be something like this. (the 3rd and 4th numbers make the domotics parameters)
Example of a DUOTECNO User Interface:
