Considered the brain of the smart home, the Home Controller is an indispensable device in the Lumi Smart Home system.
Using two Zigbee and BLE Mesh wireless communications – the most stable and most suitable technology for Smart Home, Lumi’s central controller is capable of connecting up to 500 network nodes, 200 devices are recommended. in 1 system. Taking 2 colors of black and silver as the main color and compact and sophisticated design, the central controller, when installed, not only brings convenience to homeowners, but also ensures aesthetics, suitable for multi modern home space format.
1. Features Central controller in smart home
Home Controller is the center for receiving and processing commands in smart home. Through Zigbee wave or BLE, the central controller is connected with smart home electrical devices such as smart switches, motion sensors, smart curtain motors, smart lights … Thanks to that, The commands to turn off the lights, turn on the heater, open the curtain, … are executed according to the wishes of the user. In general, all smart control commands from smartphones or virtual assistants are processed quickly and smoothly by the central controller. Therefore, it can be said that the function of the central controller is to process all the control commands of the user
- Turn on / off / timer all electric lights in the house
- Change the color and brightness of the lights according to the owner’s wishes
- Close / open / timer curtains by Smartphone and voice
- Set up smart live scenarios such as: automatically turn on lights when motion detection, group scenes, schedule, create rules for smart devices to work simultaneously …
2. Advantages of the Lumi Central Controller
Supporting both Zigbee and BLE Mesh waveforms, it can be said that the biggest advantage of the Lumi central controller is stable operation and energy saving.
If Zigbee is a wireless standard specializing in Smart Home, which is favored by many major brands, BLE Mesh is also considered as a “shoemaker” for Smart Lighting. Thus, Smart home fans do not have to worry about the difficulty of buying more smart devices in the future, because the two most stable and best rated wireless standards today are supported by Lumi. .
In addition, server Lumi has successfully integrated with Server of Amazon – USA to create smart home solution with voice control. Allows users to completely control and control the devices in the house with their own “powerful voice”. When you say the command “Turn on go home” or “Turn off go out” all devices in the house will be turned on / off completely, depending on the command.
In addition, if users use HC (the version with BLE support) in Smart Lighting system, users can enjoy the smart lighting utilities as follows:
- Turn on / off the light with Smartphone
- Change living room lighting color
- Increase / decrease brightness as desired
- Flexible control of lights according to each area, helping to save maximum power consumption
3. How it works
The smart home controller receives the signal from the sensor or the user, and then sends it to the server. After receiving the information, the central controller – HC transmits the signal to the device control switches, or to the smart lights in the Lumi Smart Lighting unit to execute user commands.
For example: When the motion sensor detects motion send a signal “someone moves into the sensor area” to the HC. Here, HC transmits the received signal to the switch connected to equipment such as hallway light, tube light … will automatically turn on / off.
In addition, HC also allows users to create animations. For example: You can create a scene by using 1 button switch to turn on or off all indoor devices, just need 1 direct touch like a mechanical switch or on the phone, you have complete control. electrical appliances in the house. Similar to the scenes: receiving guests, having dinner, going home from work … for household appliances.
General
Product code: LM-HC/BLE
- The central controller device BLE Mesh – Smart Lighting version of the Lumi smart home system was launched in November 2020 with the addition of hardware BLE Mesh module (while retaining the same features as of Zigbee version), can control both Lumi devices BLE and Zigbee at the same time. In addition, the device also plays a very important role in the Lumi Smart Lighting solution.
- Design: compact with scratch-resistant plastic and tempered glass.
- Function :
- Enabling devices to join the Zigbee network links the devices in the system together.
- Smart Lighting devices and BLE modules join HC’s BLE Mesh network to link devices in the system together.
- Control the devices with the Lumi Life app.
- Processing automatic settings: scene, rule, device timer, device group.
# Specifications
| Operating voltage |
100 – 240V AC ~ 50/60Hz |
| Operating temperature |
0℃ – 50℃ |
| Media |
Zigbee & BLE Mesh |
| Power Play Zigbee & BLE Mesh |
10 dbm |
| Dimensions (D x R x C) |
95.6 x 48.9 x 46 mm |
| Weight |
66.5 gram |
Installation of equipment
Device directive lights
Convention: Power (Led 1), Internet (Led 2), Service (Led 3), Zigbee (Led 4), Z-wave (Led 5).
| Powered devices |
When the Led power supply is 1 bright and always bright during operation, the led 2, 3, 4, 5 flashes 3 times. |
| Bright Led Start Process |
| Successful launch of 5 bright leds |
| Internet-connected devices |
No Internet connection and server: Led 1, 2, 4, 5 am, led 3 strobe continuously. |
| Successful connection: 5 leds are all bright. |
| Operation |
When joining the Zigbee network: Led 4 flashes continuously. The rest of the leds ar e bright.
When joining The BLE Mesh network: Led 5 flashes continuously. The rest of the leds are |
# Power device
- Lumi’s HC central controller is designed with a power plug attached. To power the device, the user simply plugs the device into a power outlet.
- After being powered, the led 1 bright and always bright during operation, led 2, led 3, led 4, led 5 flash 3 times in a row. When the boot is successful,5 leds are bright, the user proceeds to configure the central controller.
# Device Configuration
# Firmware update
Before performing an in-house smart device system installation, users need to check the firmware version of HC and update the firmware for HC if it is in a lower version than it is now.
Step 1 :
After the default power supply HC will broadcast wifi HCxxxx (xxxx – is the last 4 numbers of MAC HC), with the password is ABC123456. The user connects the phone or computer to HC’s wifi to perform the configuration.On a web browser, enter the default address 10.10.10.254 to enter the configuration section for the central controller. The default password of the website is ABC123.
Step 2:
Successfully logging in, the user selects the Administration tab, in the Software information section select UPGRADE FIRMWARE, then select Chose the file to select the firmware file lumi provided saved in the machine. Finally select UPGRADE / RESTART to perform the firmware update process for HC.
Note:
The firmware upgrade process time is about 3 minutes, during this process, users absolutely must not lose HC power and ensure a stable power supply.
#Internet connection
LM-HC has 2 internet connection modes: AP mode (wired LAN connection mode). Station mode (wifi connection mode).
AP mode:
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- By default, initially HC is in AP mode, users only need to power and plug in the LAN cable connecting the HC to the router / network modem.
- To check whether the HC has received the network or not, the user connects to the wifi HC and accesses the address 10.10.10.254 in the browser to the HC configuration section, the configuration web password is ABC123.
- The user selects the Network tab, the WAN section will display the internet configuration parameters of HC if the HC has received the network from the router / network modem. In case the HC does not display any parameters, users need to check the internet connection, LAN line.
HC received network
HC has not received the network
Station mode:
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- In case the infrastructure does not respond, it is not possible to pull the LAN wire to grant the network to the HC, users can configure the HC to connect to the router / network modem’s wifi.
- For HC with firmware version 5.0.28 onwards users can install HC to connect to wifi using Lumi Life app and do not need to visit HC configuration web.
- Case 1: HC has not been added to the house. For details, see installation instructions to add HC to the house when HC is connected to wifi.
- Case 2: HC was added to the home and changed the wifi connection. For details, see instructions on installing HC to connect to wifi.
- After installing HC in station mode, HC will not broadcast wifi. To turn on the HC transmitting wifi mode (AP mode), users press and hold the config 1s button to release, the HC will restart and broadcast the wifi.
Re-enable WIFI HC
Operation mode
- The central controller has 2 modes of operation: Home Controller (HC) and Local Controller (LC).
- By default, the HC will be in Home Controller mode, which is the main HC in the system.
- When the need to expand the number of devices in a system, users need to use more than 1 set of HC. Then in the system there will be 1 main HC and the remaining HCs are sub-HC operating in LC mode.
- To switch the operation mode for the central controller, the user connects to wifi HC and access the address 10.10.10.254 in the browser to the HC configuration section, the configuration web password is ABC123.
- Administration tab, in the Running mode section, click on CONFIGURE and select Home Controller or Local Controller mode to configure the device to HC or LC depending on usage needs. Then select CONFIGURE & RESTART, HC will reboot and save the setting mode.
#Reset device
Users can reset the HC central controller to the default in 2 ways.
Device actions:
Reset HC on device
Hold down the config button located on the side of the HC and observe the led indicator, when bright to led 3 (Service) release. Then, led 2, 3, 4, 5 flash 3 times, HC restart. After a successful reboot, HC lights up 5 led and returns to the default mode of AP Mode (HC broadcast Wifi).
Operation on the web configuration:
Users connect to HC wifi, access the address 10.10.10.254 on the browser to the HC configuration section, the configuration web password is ABC123, select the Administration tab, in the Factory reset section select RESET.
Reset HC
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