Here are some tips and best practises to make the integration of your local installation and setup of Glamox Connect as easy as possible.
In general, the golden rule is that you should always commision commission and set up the local installation before connecting to Glamox Connect.
Glamox Connect has a feature called automatic discovery, meaning that once you have adopted a gateway from local system into Glamox Connect, Connect it will discover the devices and add them to the system.
If you then move, remove or replace devices after this later on you might end up with faults in Connect.
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A device in Glamox Connect is a virtual representation of a uniqe physical device in your local installation. Local addressing (like DALI short addresses) are only a location reference. So replacing Device A with Device B after being added to Connect, will result in Device A being missing and Device B being a new device, regardless if they are on same physical location or same address (like DALI short address) |
In general, the one thing that one need to pay attention to when commissioning the local system to prepare for Connect integration, is to When commissioning a local system, that will be later integrated with Connect, make sure that you can easily identify the devices from the using information you gather gathered while commissioning locallythe local system. For systems where you can name your devices
If the local system allows you to name devices, it is recommended to name
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Ethernet2DALI
them in a unique manner.
If the local system doesn’t use named devices note the information that is uique for identifying the device.
Ethernet2DALI
Before connecting to Glamox Connect make sure that the system is commissioned, for more information go to E2D Knowledgebase -> Home
Make sure that you set up the clustering and network set up clusters and networks for all E2D gateways before adopting Ethernet2Dali gateways to Connect.
To easily identify devices in Connect Cloud after connecting, make sure that you add or note down information while doing local commissioning. You have two options:
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While commissioning make sure to name devices uniquely as device names will be included when connecting to
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Glamox Connect. The name should straightforward indicate the location and identify the devices.
DALI Complete
When setting up DALI Complete there is no option to name devices.
When identifying devices on DALI Complete it is recommended to note down information systematically as you proceed. We recomend also making drawings of exact locations of devices. Note down the following information for each device in a way that you will understand the physical location when/if you want to name and place devices in Connect:
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Similar to DALI Complete there is no device naming in Wireless Zigbee. The unique ID used by Connect is the Zigbee mac address (NOTE: The BLE mac address is different).
When commisioningcommissioning, note down the location of the device using the Zigbee mac address. If sticker is still present on the physical device you can use this sticker on a floorplan floor plan drawing or similar to quickly save this information.
After adopting to Connect you can use the “Device naming” tool to name all devices with Gateway and Zigbee mac address.
Wireless Radio
Commission Wireless Radio as usual, placing devices on the drawing. The serial will be the unique identifier in Connect as well and can be found there.
When adopting the Wireless Radio gateway to Connect you will also be prompted to provide the site post code. This will enable the feature to import Drawings and device positioning from Wireless Radio to Glamox Connect.
Go to Settings → Import to import your drawings and device location directly into Glamox Connect.