Hey, DIYers.
I'm Jorge from Alarm Grid.
Today, we're going to be going over how
to manage Z-Wave, or automation devices, through Total Connect.
Now, this can be either done through the application
on your smartphone or tablet, or through the website.
Today, I'm actually going to be using the test drive
feature on Total Connect 2.0 that
actually has a lot of Z-Wave devices learned into it.
So I just want to show you guys what they look like on the app.
So I'm going to be using an Apple tablet.
It doesn't matter if you're using Android or Apple.
It's going to be the same functionality.
Right?
It may be a different layout on the app,
but it's still going to be the same functions.
So let me go ahead and get the app open.
All right.
Give me one quick second here.
All right, how do you--
there we go.
All right.
So right now I'm going to open up the Total Connect app.
It's going to automatically log me
in because I do have the auto sign-in feature.
So what I'm going to do-- it's going
to log me into my normal account,
but I'm going to sign back out and show you guys where
to find the test drive feature.
So as soon as this signs me in--
just give it a second.
I'm just going to go ahead and hit Sign Out on the top left.
Now, on the login screen--
you're going to see-- it's going to ask you
for a username, password.
It'll have a check mark if you want
to enable to keep me signed in.
Or all the way at the bottom, you
see that white button that says Test Drive?
That button, if you hit it, it will take you
to a little demo of Total Connect 2.0.
So if you don't have Total Connect 2.0 yet
and you want to see what it's like,
you can go to totalconnect2.com.
Or you can download the app and just hit the Test Drive
feature.
So as soon as you hit Test Drive,
it takes you to the main screen that whenever
you log into any user, or if you are
monitored, whenever you log in, it
takes you to the main screen.
If you look at the bottom, you have your little navigation
bar.
And if you have automation enabled,
Automation will be one of the buttons in the navigation bar.
So if I hit Automation, it will take me
to all of my Z-Wave devices.
Now, this test drive Total Connect account actually
has a thermostat, it has a garage door, a living room
light--
it's a dimmer.
As you can see, it has a sliding feature,
so you can dim to different percentages.
The front door light is just on and off.
It has a water valve, so you can turn off the water
to the house.
And then it has the front door lock, which is a Z-Wave lock.
It allows you to control the door lock at the front door,
so you can unlock or lock it.
So first thing I want to play around with
is going to be the actual thermostat.
So right now it gives you the temperature
it's set to right now.
It says 73.
If I click on that Z-Wave thermostat,
it takes me to the thermostat settings page.
So right there it gives me the outdoor temperature
and the indoor temp, which is what we have set to 73.
Now, it has different modes.
It has cool, it has auto, heat, energy-save heat,
or energy-save cool.
Let's say I want to set it to Auto.
It's going to give me a cool and a set point.
The cool point is basically, once it reaches 85 degrees,
it's going to turn on the cooling
to bring the temperature back down.
The heat point is if it drops to 76,
you turn the heat on to make it a little bit hotter.
Now, obviously-- me, personally--
I don't even want to let the temperature get up
to 85, or even 80.
So I'm going to drop down the temperature.
I like it at 76.
Now, there can only be three degrees different
in between your cool and heat point.
So I would say, if it reaches 76,
I want the AC to turn on and start cooling.
If it reaches 68, I want the temperature to come on and just
make it a little bit hotter.
So that means you'll have your temperature pretty much
in between 76 and 68.
So I have mine set to there.
The thermostat will keep the temperature anywhere
in between that.
Again, like I said, there can be a three degree difference.
So if you want to drop the cool set point,
you can actually drop it down to three degrees before.
But it has to be three difference.
If you keep moving them lower--
right now, I'm doing the minus sign on the cool set point.
When I do the minus sign, it also drops the heat set point.
If I press the plus sign on the heat set point,
it brings up the cool set point, because they can only
be 3 degrees apart.
You can play around with the fan.
Instead of Auto, you can have it on On all the time.
The Normal-- you can hold it.
No Schedule-- you can play around with that.
I'm going to go ahead and hit the Back
button in the top left now to go to my other Z-Wave devices.
So my garage door--
it actually shows me the status.
It says it's closed right now.
If I go ahead and hit the button, it will start opening.
Since this is just a test drive feature,
I don't actually have a garage door that it's opening,
so it goes back to being closed.
So it just shows you the option that you can open it.
And then, vice versa.
If your garage door is open, it will stay Open.
And where it says Closed, and then you
can just tap it to close the garage door.
Now, this is all good.
Let's say you're at work and you need to let a family member in
to grab something from your garage,
or if you're on your way to work and you
forgot if you left your garage door open,
you can easily tell just by going into the automation
screen or checking your Total Connect account.
The living room light is the dimmer light.
I can dim it up halfway, 40%, 50%.
I can turn it up to 100%.
I can also just hit the Off button
if I want to just turn it off.
Or I can hit the On button if I want to turn it on.
So you actually have to tap the light bulb.
So if I tap the light bulb, it'll turn it on.
And then if I want to turn it off,
I'll just slide to the left.
The front door light is just an on and off light,
so there is no dimmer.
So you either just tap it to turn it on,
or you tap it to turn it off.
Again, since this is just a test drive feature,
it shows you that it's turning on,
but it's not actually going to turn any device on.
The water valve-- you can turn it off or on, as well.
So again, if you're going away on vacation
and you want to turn off the water valve remotely
or you need to turn it on, you can
do so just by hitting the On or Off button, and it'll do it.
And then the front door--
if your kids are coming home from school
and they don't have a key, you can
unlock the front door for them, or lock it in case
you forgot to lock it while you were on your way to work.
So you can hit the Lock--
it will say Locked.
And then if you want to unlock it, you just hit the Unlock.
Now, all of these devices--
they are going to be available when setting up your scenes.
Now, this is the test drive account,
so there are some scenes already setup.
If I hit the Scenes, which is, again, on the navigation
bar at the bottom, you're going to go ahead
and it's going to show you the scenes that have already
been made.
If I hit the pencil icon next to each scene,
it will show you what devices they have being triggered.
So, like, the coming home scene, it
does require you to run the scene manually.
But what it does is when you run it, when you hit Coming Home,
it's going to set the thermostat to 73 degrees.
It's going to turn the front door light on.
It's going to unlock the front door lock.
And then the garage door opens.
So just by hitting the Coming Home, all that happens.
Your light's on.
Your thermostat turns on.
Your thermostat is set to cool.
Your front door lock unlocks.
And then your garage door opens, and your lights come on.
All right.
So you can play around with the scenes like that.
You can add a new scene in the top right
by hitting the plus sign.
You give your scene a name.
And then you add multiple devices to it.
Now, again, this was just a video
to show you how you can play around
with all the Z-Wave devices just from the Automation page.
So if you have a lot more Z-Wave devices than this,
they're all going to show up on this application.
If you guys do have any questions whatsoever,
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And yeah, that's pretty much how to control Z-Wave devices.
I'll see you guys next time.
Bye.