Adding Devices

Once Areas, Rooms and Circuits have been created within the App, we can now link these controls to the physical equipment installed within the system.

From the Settings menu, select Devices and select one of the following:

  1. Add a new HDL Device
  2. Add a new Centro-C
  3. Add a new Centro-8M
  4. Add a Global Caché iTach
  5. Add a new IP Device

Adding and Configuring AV Equipment

The first step of configuring the AV equipment within a system is to set-up the processor that will be used to communicate with the equipment from the App i.e DemoPad Centro-C or Centro-8M

Once your processor has been added, you can configure it from within the App i.e. set the IP address and configure the COM Ports.

Adding and Configuring HDL Equipment

The app will scan the HDL bus & display any devices that it finds. To add a device to the project, simply click on the device & choose Add.

Note: If a particular device cannot be found, or is displayed as Unsupported Device, please select the Refresh Device Database option to ensure you have the latest copy of all supported devices from the Cloud system.

Adding Dimmers

Once a dimmer device has been added to the project, you can tap into the configuration for the device.

You can at this point choose to alter the Network Subnet / Device ID of the bus device, and set it to another Subnet / ID. Most HDL BusPro equipment is shipped from the factory with the same Subnet / Device ID, so you will want to individually address each component as you add the devices to the project, to ensure that they are all unique.

In the case of dimmers, you can also select any of the output channels and turn the circuit on / off:

And also select the Output Settings to adjust the dimming curve etc of the device. Please refer to the HDL documentation for the specific device in question for further information.

Once the devices we wish to control have been added, we can then associate them with the controls.