Setting up RF Easywave push buttons/controls

Situation

This step-by-step plan explains how you can use RF Easywave push buttons/controls in the Niko Home Control software to enable remote control of your garage door. In this example we use a roll-down shutter instead of a garage door.

Starting point

The starting point for this plan is a project which already encompasses Project information, for which a plan was already drawn up or uploaded and where several inputs, outputs and actions have already been added.

Run through the steps in Adding a new project and then Drawing a plan or Upload a background image if there is no existing project.

Step 1: Create an output "roll-down shutter"

Go to Creation in the menu bar at the top.

Click on add an output.
Click on roll-down shutter in the list of options on the right hand side of the screen. The output appears on the plan.
Drag the roll-down shutter to the correct location and give it a recognisable name.
Choose an existing location from the list.
Click on Add a location if the location has not yet been defined.

Step 2: Modify basic settings

Click on modify basic settings to program the run time of the roll-down shutter. A pop-up window will appear.

The name of the roll-down shutter in the pop-up window may be confusing, because the software has not yet adopted the name you have just entered.

Enter the measured or known run times.

As an installer, you may not yet have the exact times at your disposal. This is why you can always modify the data afterwards.

Click on save to close the pop-up window.
Click on save to return to the Creation start screen.

Step 3: Add a double Easywave push button

Click on add an input.
Click on double Easywave push button in the list of options in the right-hand window. The input appears on the plan.

With a single push button you can either open the roll-down shutter and stop, or close it and stop. It is not possible to use one single push button to both open and close the roll-down shutter. Therefore a double push button is the best option for a logical operation of the shutter.

Drag the double Easywave push button to the correct location and give it a recognisable name.
Choose the roll-down shutters' location from the list.

Click on save to return to the Creation start screen.

Step 4: Program the action to open the roll-down shutters

Click on add an action. The action will appear as a text balloon on the plan.
Drag the action to a logical and appropriate place, e.g. to the relevant input or output.
Give the action a name.
The Niko Home Control software will automatically use the last defined location.

Click on continue to go to the players tab.
Click on the roll-down shutters to link them to the action.
Click on the double Easywave push button. The two action buttons will be enlarged.

Click on the upper action button to link it to the action.
Click on continue to go to the Basic behaviour tab.
For every linked roll-down shutter, a start and stop behaviour exists.
For every shutter, choose open as start behaviour from the list of options on the right.

Click on continue to go to the Conditions tab.
Click on continue to go to the Time automation tab.
Click on save to return to the Creation start screen.

Step 5: Program the action to close the roll-down shutters

Click on add an action. The action will appear as a text balloon on the plan.
Drag the action to a logical and appropriate place, e.g. to the relevant input or output.
Give the action a name.
The Niko Home Control software will automatically use the last defined location.

Click on continue to go to the players tab.
Click on the roll-down shutters to link them to the action.
Click on the double Easywave push button. The two action buttons will be enlarged.

Click on the lower action button to link it to the action.
Click on continue to go to the Basic behaviour tab.
For every linked roll-down shutter, a start and stop behaviour exists.
For every shutter, choose close as start behaviour from the list of options on the right.

Click on continue to go to the Conditions tab.
Click on continue to go to the Time automation tab.
Click on save to return to the Creation start screen.

Result

Continue with Cabinet lay-out and Realisation.