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Home Automation using a Vera and ZWave

Learn how to make your house Smart! Then teach it to do the stuff that you shouldn't have to.
Rating: 3.6 out of 53.6 (33 ratings)
404 students
Created by Devin Berci
Last updated 7/2014
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • By the end of this course, you will know how to make your house smart
  • You will learn which devices are best for you
  • You will learn how to setup many types of devices
  • You will learn how to use devices automatically
  • You will learn how to get devices to talk to each other

Requirements

  • No Prerequisite knowledge required
  • A home automation controller (Vera) is required if you intend to follow along with the step by step videos
  • Z-wave devices of your choice

Description

Advancements to Home automation have made it affordable and easy enough that everyone can do it!

In this course you will learn how to make your house smart. When someone thinks of a smart home they usually just think of being able to control it via their mobile device. While you will learn that, this course takes home automation to the next level. This course will show you how to actually make your house smart. Your house will learn how to use inputs such as temperature, movement, weather, scheduling, geo-fencing, and so much more to control Lights, HVAC, Blinds, TVs, almost anything.

This course provides step-by-step instructions from basic setup to advanced examples. It includes theoretical information and step-by-step videos for setting up and using devices. There are also step-by-step videos for using automation, triggers, and program logic to perform actions. Code examples are provided and explained anywhere code is used. No coding experience necessary.

You will learn how to:

  • Setup a Vera Lite of Vera3
  • How to add and use devices
  • How to use Scenes
  • How to use Triggers
  • How to use LUUP code
  • How to use Mobile Applications
  • How to Troubleshoot issues.

You will also learn how to add and use:

  • Z-Wave Devices
  • IR Devices
  • IP Devices
  • Light/Dimmer Switches
  • On/Off Swithces
  • Motion Sensors
  • Heat Sensors
  • Light Sensors
  • Humidity Sensors
  • Thermostats
  • IR Devices (TV, Stereo, Portable Air Conditioner, etc)
  • Motorized Blinds

Who this course is for:

  • Someone who is looking to learn how to automate their house themselves
  • No Prior Experience Necessary
  • Beginners: You will learn all the basics needed to get started and leverage that to learn more advanced automation and concepts.
  • Experts: You will learn about features that you didn't know existed and have real world examples of new ways you can automate your house.

Course content

8 sections • 55 lectures • 5h 44m total length

  • Preview03:59

  • 2.1 - Introduction
    00:57
  • 2.2 - What is Z-Wave
    07:27
  • Preview10:23
  • 2.4 - Home Construction Considerations
    05:19

  • 3.1 - Introduction
    00:54
  • 3.2 - Vera 3 Overview
    02:15
  • 3.3 - Vera Lite Overview
    02:56
  • 3.4 - First Time Setup
    08:01
  • 3.5 - Setting up Localizations
    02:39
  • 3.6 - Setting up Notifications
    02:42
  • 3.7 - Adding Additional Users
    02:09
  • 3.8 - Overview of the Simple Interface
    06:49
  • 3.9 - Overview of the Advanced Interface
    15:34

  • 4.1 - Introduction
    01:40
  • 4.2 - Vera 3 Inclusion/Exclusion Mode
    02:36
  • 4.3 - Vera Lite Inclusion/Exclusion Mode
    05:02
  • 4.4 - Excluding a Device
    02:50
  • 4.5 - Adding a Light Switch/Dimmer
    05:38
  • Preview04:00
  • 4.7 - Adding a Motion/Combi Sensor
    09:55
  • 4.8 - Adding a Thermostat
    05:12
  • 4.9 - IR Distribution Setup
    16:04
  • 4.10 - IR Distribution Adding a Device - File Overview (Part 1)
    08:35
  • 4.11 - IR Distribution Adding a Device - Service File (Part 2)
    04:02
  • 4.12 - IR Distribution Adding a Device - Implementation File (Part 3)
    13:47
  • 4.13 - IR Distribution Adding a Device - Device File (Part 4)
    06:01
  • 4.14 - IR Distribution Adding a Device - Adding to the Vera (Part 5)
    10:28
  • 4.15 - Setting up the Somfy Blinds Bridge
    10:43

  • 5.1 - Introduction
    01:01
  • 5.2 - General Scene Overview
    11:32
  • 5.3 - LUUP Introduction
    07:18

  • 6.1 - Introduction
    02:42
  • Preview11:46
  • 6.3 - Turn on a light when motion is detected (Direct Control)
    04:38
  • 6.4 - Turn on a light when motion is detected (Trigger)
    05:27
  • 6.5 - Motion Detection Notification
    04:32
  • 6.6 - Advanced Scheduled Scenes
    07:12
  • 6.7 - Using Virtual Switches
    14:30
  • 6.8 - Scene Delays
    05:53
  • 6.9 - Perform action only between a certain time
    06:31
  • 6.10 - Trigger actions only when the light level is low
    05:06
  • 6.11 - Trigger actions only when it gets too hot
    03:59
  • 6.12 - Notify me when my device's batteries are low
    01:52
  • 6.13 - Using a Geo-Fence
    16:36

  • 7.1 - Introduction
    01:19
  • 7.2 - iPhone Application
    10:02
  • 7.3 - Android Application
    04:00
  • 7.4 - iPad Application
    05:47

  • 8.1 - Introduction
    01:35
  • 8.2 - Re-Configure Devices
    03:05
  • 8.3 - Getting your Root Password
    08:22
  • 8.4 - Looking at the Luup log
    07:26
  • 8.5 - Writing Variables to the Log
    08:12
  • 8.6 - Z-Wave Network Repair
    05:52

Instructor

Devin Berci
President and COO at Aethr Inc.
Devin Berci
  • 3.6 Instructor Rating
  • 33 Reviews
  • 404 Students
  • 1 Course

Devin has extensive background in corporate business system design and a passion for home automation. He has self taught himself home automation and completely automated his whole house. His professional background in technical system design and business analysis has allowed him to work with both technical and non-technical people. This unique ability to interact between both worlds makes him the perfect instructor to teach to both worlds. His courses contain goodies that techies will drool over, but at the same time are explained in a way that anyone can understand. He has a passion for sharing knowledge with others and loves the fact that places like Udemy exist!

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