Home Automation NG - Demo Pack 2
"Home Automation" is a technology that allows you to easily control your home items in an automatic way. With this pack you get a demo set with a simple home lamp, a switch that controls the lamp, and a HUD that lets your avatar "clap" to switch the lamp. As a demo, all items are "no modify" and "no transfer". You can copy the items, though.
You can use the switch by clicking on it. It then switches the light on and off. You can also click the lamp to switch it off. The switch reflects that state change, i.e. it shows it the lamp is on or off.
Please see the other packs for more items. Also look at the controller packs, that allow you to control the items by menu or even by HUD.
If you have any more questions, do not hesitate to ask me!
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See also these related products:
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Controller Pack
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Home Devices Pack
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Lights Pack
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Demo Pack 1
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Controller Pack Builder ed.
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Home Devices Pack Builder Ed.
* Bitman's Home Automation NG Lights Pack Builder edition
Content
* What is Home Automation?
* What's in the pack?
* How do I use the Lamp pack?
* How do I modify the items?
* Advanced use
* More Questions
What is Home Automation
Home automation is a real-life technology that lets you control items in your home automatically. Examples are window blinds that open or close automatically at a defined time of day, or lights that switch on or off depending on the outside light. Another example is a control, that automatically lowers the blinds, dims the lights and switches on some soft music when you get into the mood.
The Home Automation packs bring this technology to SL. This Demo pack is a starter pack to give you an impression of the possibilities. Please look at the other packs or the demo in my store. The Home Automation technology used in these items is a sophisticated script library, taking care of all the subtleties for you.
What's in the pack
In this pack you will find one lamp and a switch to control the lamp. Please note that these items are "no modify", so that you cannot change the items, where the other (non-demo) packs contain modifyable items. These modifyable items allow for exchanging the switches for a lamp, or building your own switches or devices, which is not possible in this pack.
In addition to the lamp you get a HUD that controls the lamp too.
- Room Lamp
A nice room lamp you can use in your living room
- Room Lamp switch
Grey on/off wall switch
- Room Lamp Clapper HUD
When you wear this HUD and click it, your avatar will clap its hands and the room lamp will go on/off.
(Note: you might have to switch off your AO to see the effect)
How do I use the Demo pack?
The pack is very easy to use. Simply drag the items from the repository, place them where you want them to be and you're set!
You can copy the items, but a switch will always switch on or off all lamps in the communication range (which is 100m in this case)
Please note that in the other (non-demo) packs you can reconfigure the switches and lamps by simply renaming them, but this is not possible with this demo pack. Please see the information in the other packs for more details.
How do I modify the items?
You cannot modify the demo items.
Advanced Use
These advanced uses are only available in the non-demo packs:
* Simple configuration
- Devices are easily addressed by "room"/"circuit" pairs.
- You can use the object (i.e. prim) name, the prim's description, or a separate configuration notecard to define the address
- Switches gather information from the device, so they need no special configuration besides the device address
- Wildcard addressing possible to switch multiple devices
* Security
- You can use the configuration file to implement access control - i.e. restrict the use of the switches to
- yourself as the owner,
- people in the same group as the switch or
- a small list of people specified in the configuration file itself.
- Home Automation scripts from other users are ignored by default, but can be enabled by group
* Anti-Lag features:
- Two-channel configuration: from device to switch and from switch to device
- A configurable mode for linked objects that uses link messages instead of chat messages
- By default communication has a 100m range, but by configuration this can be reduced to 20m or switched off
(using link messages instead)
* Easy customization
- You can write your own scripts for devices as well as switches, to customize your devices to your liking
- There is an API for your scripts to implement custom devices or s
