GreenWave Reality GL30000 User manual

Connected Lighting

Introduction 2
Installation and Setup 22
Smart Device Application 32
Web Application 51
Remote Control 65
Frequently Asked Questions 73
Troubleshooting 75
Safety Information 79
About GreenWave Reality 82
Product Specications 83
Table of Contents
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Introduction
The GreenWave Reality energy management system helps create a smart, energy-efcient home by monitoring
and controlling your appliances, electronics, and lighting. You can conserve energy with minimal impact to
your lifestyle by using our products to easily manage your devices. Simply connect the Gateway to your home
network, plug your devices into our PowerNodes, connect your network light bulbs, and then monitor and
control the your power usage through a Web browser or smartphone application.
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• Any of the following Web browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and above
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and above
Google Chrome 12.0 and above
Apple Safari 5.1.1 and above
Smart Devices (Smartphone, Tablet, and TV)
• For Android devices:
Android operating system 2.2 and above
Screen resolution of 320x240 and above
• For Apple devices:
iOS operating system 4.2.1 and above
Wireless Router
For the smart device application to manage your lighting locally within your home, your home network must use
a wireless router to which your smart device is connected. While you can also connect remotely to your lighting
network over the Internet or mobile data connection, it is not practical to do so on a day-to-day basis at home.
Connected Lighting Overview
The Connected Lighting kit includes a wireless smart lighting system that helps make the lighting in your home
more energy efcient and easier to manage. The kit includes LED or CFL light bulbs and a remote control that
work together to help you manage your lighting wirelessly.
Your lighting kit also includes a Gateway, which provides an enhanced network connection to your light bulbs.
This Gateway connection allows you to use your Web browser, smartphone, or other smart devices to set
up and manage your home lighting system as well as set up user-dened schedules and other controls for
automatically turning your lighting on or off.
Note: This guide uses the term “smart device” to refer to a smartphone, tablet (or iPod touch), or TV.
System Requirements
To use a Web browser or smart device to manage your Connected Lighting, your computer or smart device
and home network must meet the following minimum requirements. If your system does not meet these
requirements, you can still use your lighting kit with the remote control.
Computer (for Web Access)
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There are no requirements for the type of wireless router, as long as your smart device and Gateway are able to
connect to it. Refer to your smart device’s documentation for more information on connecting it to your home
network.
Note: Connected Lighting is designed for a wireless home network and not a corporate network.
Gateway Components
1. Sync button and activity indicator: Button that you press to search and add new light bulbs and devices. If
your equipment came with the Gateway as part of an energy management kit, then you typically do not have
to use the sync button since the Gateway and other energy management devices were already synced at
the factory. However, if you do have to sync your equipment, refer to the Installation and Setup chapter for
more information. The button also has an indicator that shows the sync status with your energy management
devices. Refer to the Gateway Activity Indicators section later in this chapter for descriptions of each of the
indicators you might see during the sync process.
2. WAN (Internet connection) error indicator: Indicator that shows whether or not the Gateway is connected to
the internet. Refer to the Gateway Activity Indicators section later in this chapter for more information.
3. LAN (home network) error indicator: Indicator that shows whether or not the Gateway is connected to your
network. Refer to the Gateway Activity Indicators section later in this chapter for more information.
4. Power indicator: Indicator that shows whether or not the Gateway is powered. Refer to the Gateway Activity
Indicators section later in this chapter for more information.
5. Network socket (RJ45): Ethernet port to connect the Gateway to your network router or modem.
6. Power adapter socket: Socket to plug in the Gateway power adapter.
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Power Indicator—off (no color): The
Gateway is powered off.
Power Indicator—Steady white: The
Gateway is powered on.
Sync button— two green bars rotating
clockwise: The Gateway is in comissioning
mode to connect with network light bulbs.
The commissioning process will continue
until all light bulbs and devices searching
for network have been found. If no devices
are found for 2 consecutive mintues the
commissioning process will time out.
Network indicator—off (no color): The
Gateway is connected to your home
network.
Network indicator—red: The Gateway
is not connected to your home network.
Check that the Ethernet cable is plugged
into the Gateway and your network router
or modem. Refer to the Installation and
Setup chapter for more more information.
Internet indicator—off (no color): The
Gateway is connected to the Internet.
Internet indicator—red: The Gateway is not
connected to the Internet. If your network
indicator is also red, then the problem
may be with the Gateway’s connection to
your network router or modem (refer to
the network indicator information above).
Otherwise, check that your network
router or modem has an active Internet
connection.
Gateway Activity Indicators
Your Gateway has sync, network, and power indicators that display the following patterns and colors to show
you the Gateway’s current status:
Remote Control Components
1. 1-4 button: Button that you press to select all lighting
groups to turn on, turn off, dim, or brighten.
2. Group number button: Button that you press to select
that lighting group to turn on, turn off, dim, or brighten.
Also use these buttons to program the lights in the
corresponding group. An indicator light above each
number indicates the group number currently being used.
3. On/Off button: Button that you press to turn on or off the
lights in the selected lighting group(s). Lights turn on to
the previous dimming level.
4. Dimmer control: Control that you press and hold to dim
or brighten the lights in the selected lighting group(s).
5. Primary status indicator: Indicator that lights or ashes
during different activities with the remote control. Refer to
the Remote Control Indicators section later in this chapter
for more information.
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6. Battery compartment: Compartment on the back that holds 2 AA batteries to power the remote control.
7. Program button: Button (inside battery compartment) that you press to initiate programming of lighting
groups and other remote control programming functions.
Remote Control Indicators
The remote control has four group number indicator lights and one primary status indicator light that display the
following patterns to show you the remote control’s status during different processes:
Process
Initial Remote
Control Setup
Working with One
Lighting Group
Working with All
Lighting Groups
Indication and Description
Primary indicator ashes steadily: During the process of installing batteries for the rst
time, the remote control is determining the best signal for your lighting system.
Group number indicator turns on, and primary indicator remains off: The corresponding
lighting group has been selected, and its last state was off.
Group number indicator and primary indicator turn on: The corresponding lighting group
has been selected, and its last state was something other than off (for example, lighting
group was on or was dimmed to a certain level).
All group number indicators turn on, and primary indicator remains off: All lighting
groups have been selected, and their last state was off.
All group number indicators and primary indicator turn on: All lighting groups have been
selected, and their last state was something other than off (for example, lighting groups
were on or were dimmed to a certain level).
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Basic Concepts of Wireless Routers and Networks
Many homes today have a home network router to allow multiple devices in the home to connect to the Internet
as well as each other. Many people use a wireless router as their network router so that they are not tethered
by a cable that physically connects them to the router. For example, most modern laptop computers and smart
devices have internal wireless hardware that allows you to connect them to a wireless router without a physical
cable.
Modem and Router Connection
In a typical home network conguration, the router (wireless or not) connects to a modem, which in turn
connects to the Internet. For example, cable companies and DSL providers often provide their customers with
a modem that connects directly to the cable company or DSL provider’s network and thus to the Internet. You
could connect a computer directly to this modem so that you can access the Internet through your computer’s
Web browser or other applications. However, many people connect a router to the modem instead to allow
for multiple computers and devices to all share the same connection to the Internet through one modem. The
router also allows the attached computers and devices to connect with one another.
Wireless Network
Before wireless networking became common, routers only allowed for computers and devices to connect
physically through cables.
This limited where you could place your computer or device based on the location of the router and the length
of the cable. With the advent of wireless networking in the home (commonly referred to as “wi-”), many routers
began including wireless technology in addition to the physical cable connections. This type of wireless router
allows you to connect a wireless-enabled device from anywhere around the home as long as the wireless radio
signal can be maintained. Many of the computers and devices built today come with internal wireless hardware
so that they are ready to connect to your wireless network. As a wireless device, a smart device can connect
to a wireless network, and applications installed on the smart device (including the lighting application) use that
network connection to access the Internet or other devices on the home network.
Since any wireless device within radio range can connect to a wireless router (and thus the corresponding home
network), wireless routers allow you to set up a user name and password so that wireless devices must be
authenticated in order to connect. Modern smart devices support this type of wireless infrastructure. Typically,
when you set up your wireless settings on your smart device, you store the user name and password for your
wireless network so that your smart device is always connected when in range of your home network.
Wireless Lighting Network
Wireless lighting uses your router’s wireless technology to allow you to control and manage your lights from a
smart device. To do this, the Gateway in your lighting kit is built to communicate with the wireless light bulbs.
Since the Gateway connects to your wireless router, other devices connected to that same router (such as your
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With your wireless light bulbs connected to the Gateway, your smart device can control them as long as the
smart device is running the appropriate application. The lighting application enables your smart device to
connect to the Gateway through your wireless router connection and in turn control and manage the attached
network lighting.
Low Power - Networking
The Gateway and network lighting on your energy management system communicate with each other using
a low power wireless networking technology. The low power network, the wireless devices (in this case your
Gateway and network lighting) are able to interact with each other over the network by sending data from one
device to the next, using the best radio signal path on the network. This path does not have to be a direct
connection between the Gateway and a network light bulb. It can be through any combination of network
light bulbs on the low power network. So, while a network light bulb in a distant room might not be able to
communicate directly with the Gateway, it can communicate with another nearby network light bulb that will
pass the signal across the low power network until it reaches the Gateway.
Since wireless devices on a low power network have built-in antennas for radio communication with other
connected devices, they may be prone to the same reception problems that you might have with your mobile
phone inside a building. Your Gateway can have trouble communicating with the network lighting if their radio
signals are blocked by obstacles such as large metal panels or walls containing wire mesh.
Refer to the
Installation Tips section
in the Installation and Setup
chapter for other issues that could affect
Gateway reception with the network lighting.

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Local vs. Remote Connection
In networking, you will commonly hear the following terms to describe how a device may be connecting to the
network:
• Local refers to a network connection when the device is connected directly to that network’s router.
For example, when you are at home, your smart device or Web browser (through your computer)
would be connected to your wireless router and therefore would be connected locally. You would not
have to use an Internet or mobile data connection because your smart device is already connected
directly through your router. It can access your lighting network locally because your lighting network is
also attached to the same router (through the Gateway).
• Remote (not to be confused with remote control) refers to a network connection when the device is
not connected directly to that network’s router. In this case, the device uses an Internet or mobile data
connection to reach your network router. For example, if you are at work and need to access your
network, you would access it remotely. With a remote connection, your device typically uses some
form of authentication so that your network router knows that it can trust your device when it requests
a connection. With the lighting network, you must have a password-protected online account to which
you log in through a smart device. This authenticated login lets your network know that it is safe to
accept the connection.
Example of Wireless Network
The following illustration shows an example of a wireless home network with lighting:
Local Connection
Remote
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Basic Concepts of Network Light Bulbs
Network light bulbs work with your light xtures the same way as standard light bulbs. They are different,
however, in a couple of ways:
• The lighting element in the light bulb uses energy-efcient CFL or LED technology.
• The light bulb includes wireless technology that allows the light bulb to connect to a network and be
managed remotely.
Because the light bulbs can be connected to a network, you have greater exibility in how you use them.
For example, you can program your lighting network so that when you press a button upon arriving home,
an entryway and a hallway light turn on. Or when you go to bed, your remote control can turn off all lights
on the network. You can also use your smartphone to control your lighting network and set up schedules to
automatically turn your lights on and off at predened times.
Maximum Number of Network Light Bulbs
There is a limit to the number of light bulbs at which the performance of the lighting network begins to
decrease. For example, the time it takes a light bulb to respond may start to increase if too many light bulbs are
installed on the lighting network. Testing has shown that the lighting network should be limited to a maximum of
250 light bulbs to maintain reliability in performance.
Planning Your Lighting Network
Whether you have only one wireless light bulb or you are replacing your entire home with wireless light bulbs,
you should plan how you want the lighting on your network to behave. For example, if you only have one light
bulb you might want to place it in a central location that would be optimum for turning on and off when you are
away or arrive home. If you have multiple light bulbs, however, you might want to set them up in rooms and
lighting groups to be able to better manage them across your home.
Note: Light xtures that have dimmer controls are not recommended for your network light bulbs. However,
they can in most cases be used if the dimmer level is set to 100%.
Rooms
When organizing your network light bulbs, you can set them up into rooms. Then you can use your smart
device to turn on and off light xtures in selected rooms. A room is a set of network light bulbs that exist in a
physical room in your home and can be controlled through your smart device or Web browser. For example,
a bedroom in your home might have two light xtures with network light bulbs and one xture with a standard
light bulb. The two network light bulbs in that bedroom are organized under that room. If you were to turn on all
lights in that room, both network light bulbs would turn on.
Note: You cannot use your remote control to set up or control rooms.