ACL VOLANSYS CENTAURI-200 User manual

User Guide (UG)
CENTAURI-200
Revision: 3.0
Date: 02-06-2022
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 PURPOSE ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.2 SCOPE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.1 PREREQUISITES ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2.2 SUPPORTED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE PLATFORMS ..................................................................................................5
1.3 ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 5
1.4 REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................................................6
1.5 DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS .........................................................................................................................................6
1 SYSTEM OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2 SETUP PREREQUISITES .......................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 HARDWARE OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................................................................ 8
3 MOBILE APPLICATION SETUP ................................................................................................................................ 9
3.1 INSTALLATION (ANDROID MOBILE APPLICATION) ............................................................................................................9
3.2 INSTALLATION (IOS MOBILE APPLICATION) ................................................................................................................... 9
3.3 INITIAL SETUP AND USER REGISTRATION ......................................................................................................................10
4 GATEWAY SETUP .................................................................................................................................................13
4.1 GATEWAY LED INDICATION ...................................................................................................................................... 13
4.2 GATEWAY SWITCH FUNCTION ....................................................................................................................................13
4.3 GATEWAY INITIAL SETUP .......................................................................................................................................... 14
4.3.1 Gateway Setup with Wi-Fi .......................................................................................................................... 14
4.3.2 Gateway Setup with Ethernet cable ........................................................................................................... 14
4.4 GATEWAY COMMISSIONING [REGISTRATION] ...............................................................................................................15
4.4.1 Gateway Registration ................................................................................................................................. 15
4.4.2 Factory reset the gateway .......................................................................................................................... 19
4.5 CHANGE GATEWAY NETWORK INTERFACE FOR IP CONNECTIVITY (WI-FI OR ETHERNET) ..................................................... 21
4.5.1 Change from Wi-Fi to Ethernet ...................................................................................................................21
4.5.2 Change from Ethernet to Wi-Fi ...................................................................................................................21
4.6 REMOVE GATEWAY ................................................................................................................................................. 22
5 END DEVICE SETUP AND CONTROL ......................................................................................................................23
5.1 Z-WAVE OR ZIGBEE MODULES ...................................................................................................................................23
5.2 Z-WAVE/ ZIGBEE END DEVICE COMMISSIONING .......................................................................................................... 23
5.3 END DEVICE PROPERTIES ..........................................................................................................................................26
5.4 Z-WAVE / ZIGBEE END DEVICE CONTROLLING AND MONITORING. ...................................................................................27
5.4.1 Z-Wave / ZigBee bulb control ..................................................................................................................... 27
5.4.2 Z-Wave / ZigBee device monitoring ............................................................................................................28
5.5 REMOVE Z-WAVE END DEVICE ................................................................................................................................. 29

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5.6 REMOVE ZIGBEE END DEVICE ................................................................................................................................... 30
LISTS OF TABLES
TABLE 1 GATEWAY LED INDICATION ....................................................................................................................................13
TABLE 2 GATEWAY SWITCH FUNCTION ................................................................................................................................. 14
LISTS OF FIGURES
FIGURE 1- 1 GATEWAY SETUP ARCHITECTURE .......................................................................................................................... 7
FIGURE 3- 1 MOBILE APPLICATION LAUNCH PAGE ................................................................................................................. 10
FIGURE 3- 2 USER REGISTRATION FOR GATEWAY ................................................................................................................... 11
FIGURE 3- 3 HOME SCREEN AFTER SUCCESSFUL LOGIN ............................................................................................................12
FIGURE 4- 1 CENTAURI-200 GATEWAY ............................................................................................................................. 15
FIGURE 4- 2 IOTIFY – ADD GATEWAY .................................................................................................................................. 16
FIGURE 4- 3 GATEWAY PROVISIONING ................................................................................................................................. 17
FIGURE 4- 4 GATEWAY LIST ................................................................................................................................................18
FIGURE 4- 5 GATEWAY PROPERTY CHANGE ........................................................................................................................... 19
FIGURE 4- 6 GATEWAY WI-FI RESET BUTTON ........................................................................................................................ 20
FIGURE 4- 7 REMOVE GATEWAY ......................................................................................................................................... 22
FIGURE 5- 1 MIKROBUS BASED Z-WAVE 700 MODULE ...........................................................................................................23
FIGURE 5- 2 MIKROBUS BASED ZIGBEE JN5179 MODULE ....................................................................................................... 23
FIGURE 5- 3 END DEVICE LISTING SCREEN WITH NO END-DEVICE PAIRED .....................................................................................25
FIGURE 5- 4 COMMISSIONED GATEWAY ............................................................................................................................... 25
FIGURE 5- 5 WAITING FOR END-DEVICE PAIRING ....................................................................................................................25
FIGURE 5- 6 SUCCESSFUL END-DEVICE LISTING ...................................................................................................................... 26
FIGURE 5- 7 END DEVICE INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................... 26
FIGURE 5- 8 ZIGBEE / Z-WAVE BULB CONTROL FROM MOBILE APPLICATION ................................................................................27
FIGURE 5- 9 ZIGBEE / Z-WAVE DOOR SENSOR MONITORING FROM MOBILE APPLICATION ..............................................................28
FIGURE 5- 10 Z-WAVE MULTI SENSOR MONITORING FROM MOBILE APPLICATION ........................................................................29
FIGURE 5- 11 Z-WAVE REMOVE END-DEVICE FROM MOBILE APPLICATION .................................................................................. 30
FIGURE 5- 12 ZIGBEE REMOVE END-DEVICE FROM MOBILE APPLICATION ....................................................................................31

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Revision History
Date
Version
Details of change
Author
Reviewers
Approvers
10-08-2019
Draft 0.1
Initial Draft
MK
KB, RT
KB
29-08-2019
1.0
First Release
MK
RT, NP
KB
12-12-2019
1.1
Added Zigbee device control in
section 5.
Updated IoTiFy link in Section 3
NP
KB
KB
06-02-2020
1.2
Updated section 4.3 and updated
the document for Zigbee support.
NP
KB
KB
04-03-2020
1.3
Corrected LED2 indication in
chapter 4.
NP
KB
KB
13-03-2020
1.4
Updeted device provisioning section
NP
KB
KB
06-08-2020
1.5
Updated Switch indication in
Chapter 4
NP
KB
KB
19-10-2021
1.6
Added screenshots for complete
gateway registration process in
Section 4.4.1 and updated latest Z-
wave mikrobus module design
picture in Section 5.1.
NP
KB
KB
20-10-2021
2.0
Baselined the document
NP
KB
KB
02-06-2022
3.0
Updated the logo in the document
YP
NP
NP

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1 INTRODUCTION
This document will guide an end user in getting started with the CENTAURI-200.
1.1 Purpose
This document will address the following things:
1. Getting Started with CENTAURI-200 demonstration
2. System Overview
3. CENTAURI-200 Gateway Setup
4. End device setup and control
1.2 Scope
The scope of the guide is to describe the various functionalities to configure CENTAURI-200 using
mobile application for the user. It also demonstrates the setup and control of Z-wave and Zigbee
end devices. This document does not include the flashing steps of the CENTAURI-200 gateway.
1.2.1 Prerequisites
In this guide, it is assumed that CENTAURI-200 is available with the user and flashed with the
latest CENTAURI-200 release, links for software release, mobile application and necessary
accounts to set up the Cloud application.
1.2.2 Supported Software and Hardware Platforms
CENTAURI-200 functionality is tested with the following combination of operating system,
hardware platform, software versions, phone model or iOS/Android versions. CENTAURI -200
application may work with other versions of operating system, hardware, software, phone model
or iOS/Android version. The functionality of the CENTAURI-200 will not be guaranteed by Volansys
on any other combinations other than the one mentioned below:
Operating System – Yocto flavored Linux OS
Hardware board version – 1.0
Software version – 1.0.0
iPhone/iOS version – 10.x and higher
Android version – Lollipop 5.0 and higher
1.3 Acronyms & Abbreviations
Terms
Definition
AP
Access point
GW
Gateway
ED
End Device

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EUI
Extended Unique Identifier
OTA
Over The Air
1.4 References
Reference Document Title
Provided by
Remarks
NA
1.5 Document Conventions
This element signifies a useful information or tip or suggestion
This element signifies a warning or proceed with caution
This element signifies that the action should be avoid

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1 SYSTEM OVERVIEW
CENTAURI-200 Gateway is a central device to run the out of the box demonstration. In this setup, the
user can control and monitor the Z-wave and ZigBee end devices with help of mobile application. To do
the setup, the user needs to provide Internet connectivity to CENTAURI-200 Gateway. The Gateway
supports Ethernet, WiFi and LTE to connect to the cloud. The user can add end devices in the system
using mobile application. Once the end devices are added to the system, the user can control them via
the mobile application.
Figure 1- 1 Gateway setup architecture

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2 SETUP PREREQUISITES
2.1 Hardware Requirements
User needs following listed items to fulfill setup requirement
CENTAURI-200 Gateway.
oZ-wave controller Module
oZigBee Controller Module
oInternet connectivity on Gateway via Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
2.2 Hardware Optional Requirements
The following Z-Wave / ZigBee end devices are supported
oZ-Wave bulb, door sensor, motion sensor, Multi sensor etc.
oZigBee bulb, door sensor, motion sensor, Water Leak Sensor, etc.

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3 MOBILE APPLICATION SETUP
3.1 Installation (Android Mobile Application)
1. The IoTify Android application is available on Google Play Store.
3.2 Installation (iOS Mobile Application)
1. The IoTify iOS application is available on the Apple Application store.

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3.3 Initial setup and User registration
1. Launch/open installed application in the mobile. User can see below screen
Figure 3- 1 Mobile Application Launch Page
2. If prompted for any permission, please allow.
3. Follow user registration process for creating account. Enter verification code received on email
to complete registration process.

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Figure 3- 2 User registration for Gateway
4. Login with the user credential created during sign-up.
5. On successful authentication, user is redirected to the list of registered gateways. The user can
see registered gateway if any or can see below screen without any gateways.

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Figure 3- 3 Home screen after successful login

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4 GATEWAY SETUP
4.1 Gateway LED indication
Table 1 Gateway LED indication
4.2 Gateway Switch function
LED
Indication
Represents
POWER LED
ON
Power is available
OFF
No Power supply is connected
LED1
OFF
Access Point mode is off
SOLID RED
Access Point mode is on.
Blinking RED
(1 second off, 1 second on)
End Device Commissioning in
progress
LED2
Green
Internet connectivity available
Red
Internet connectivity NOT available
Switch
Control
Action
SW1
Press the switch thrice where the interval between
two consecutive presses should not exceed 1
second.
OTA Recovery in case of failure in the
application OTA
Press the switch for more than 10 seconds
RF Device Discovery will start to pair end
devices
SW2
Press the switch thrice where the interval between
two consecutive presses should not exceed 1
second.
AP mode of Gateway will be enabled
Long press (Required switch press duration more
than 5sec)
Factory reset the gateway (Clears the
Wi-Fi credentials, remove the paired end

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Table 2 Gateway Switch function
4.3 Gateway Initial setup
Follow below steps for initial Gateway setup
4.3.1 Gateway Setup with Wi-Fi
1. Plug in power cable in DC power input port of gateway available on back panel.
2. Plug-out Ethernet cable if it is plugged in.
3. Power up the Gateway.
4. After power up, Gateway will be in Access point mode. It will broadcast SSID =
CentauriGateway_XXXX (XXXX = Last 4 digit of MAC address).
5. Observe the LED indication.
oLED2 as solid RED indicates no internet connectivity if gateway doesn’t have valid Wi-Fi
credential or does not have LAN or LTE connectivity. Wi-Fi credential can be provided to
gateway through mobile application
oLED1 as solid RED indicates Gateway is in Wi-Fi access point mode
oRefer section Gateway LED indication for more details.
4.3.2 Gateway Setup with Ethernet cable
1. Plug in power cable in DC power input port of Gateway.
2. Plug in Ethernet cable to Gateway Ethernet port.
3. Power up the Gateway.
4. Observe the LED indication.
oLED2 as RED indicates no internet connectivity.
oRefer section Gateway LED indication for more details.
devices, rules and scenes)

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Figure 4- 1 CENTAURI-200 Gateway
4.4 Gateway Commissioning [Registration]
A user needs to register the gateway using the mobile application to use the gateway to control and
monitor end devices. To register the gateway, follow below steps.
4.4.1 Gateway Registration
1. Open the mobile application and log in using user id. User can see below screen in mobile
application if none of the gateway is registered previously with same user id.
2. User can add Gateway by touching “+” on top right corner. It will show below screen. Follow the
instruction given on screen. On Wi-Fi setting, user shall connect to SSID
CentauriGateway_XXXX (XXXX=Last 4 digit of Gateway MAC). User should enter the Password
as centauri_XXXX (XXXX=Last 4 digit of Gateway MAC, e.g. “centauri_D1A5” (password is case
sensitive)) to connect to the SSID of the gateway.
oIf user is commissioning gateway for the first time, user does not need to reset Wi-Fi on
GW by pressing SW2.
oIf user wants to factory reset the gateway, press SW2 for long duration (more than 5
seconds) as mentioned Table 2.

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Figure 4- 2 IoTify – Add Gateway
Once user connects to access point of the GW, the user needs to enter the Wi-Fi password as
centauri_XXXX (XXXX=Last 4 digit of Gateway MAC, e.g. “centauri_D1A5”). After the user comes
back to this application, user will see below screen. In this screen, user shall select an Access point

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that GW will use for getting an internet connectivity. (E.g. Home Wi-Fi router access point). User will
be prompted to enter passphrase if that is configured on selected SSID)
Figure 4- 3 Gateway Provisioning

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1. After providing all correct input, the gateway will be commissioned, and it will be available on
application as shown below. User can add multiple gateway to the application by following same
process.
Figure 4- 4 Gateway List
2. Long press on Gateway and select Gateway information. This will open Gateway property
window. User can rename the gateway in this screen.

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Figure 4- 5 Gateway property change
4.4.2 Factory reset the gateway
1. SW2 switch can be used (long press) to factory reset the gateway if needed. Refer Gateway
Switch indication for more details

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Figure 4- 6 Gateway Wi-Fi reset button
oUser can see LED2 will turn green if Gateway has internet connectivity.
oLED2 will be red if there is not internet connectivity