Magnocomp magDomus MGD2 Series User manual

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User Guide

Version, 1.31, Feb.2012
www.magnocomp.com
This User Guide applies to the complete family line of magDomus from magnocomp, including the models:
●MGD2xxx
●MGD300x
●MGD301x

At a Glance
The magnocomp’s magDomus is a light and high flexible equipment that takes care and automates
your home.
The magDomus Home Controller checks and monitors status of all your electric devices and
automatically controls every element according to your life style. If necessary, it even informs you of
what is happening in your home.
The magDomus Home Controller was design with compatibility and interoperability in mind. We
believe our costumers benefit with the freedom to choose the best home automation elements
without the typical restrictions imposed by most technological manufactures. The magDomus Home
Controller can be integrated in most standard home automation networks like X10, Z-Wave, Insteon,
KNX, DLI, ZigBee, and others. Additionally, it can join together several home automation networks,
even with different technologies, by allowing a transparent bridge of events and commands between
networks. By integrating a magDomus controller in your home you can solve all the typical
interoperability problems between different technologies.
The magDomus Home Controller interacts naturally with any device with a personal network, Intranet
or Internet connection. Every family member will be able to check the status of home environments
and to specify both precise and generic requirements to adjust the achieved comfort.
The magDomus home controller is implemented in a thin and low consuming design that allows fast
and clean installation in any targeted environment. Its form factor allows a quick an convenient
installation almost any where.

Fig. 1. Front view
Fig. 2. Rear view
The magDomus can interact with any remote configuration station in the Internet, using its standard
Ethernet port. The magDomus can monitor and control any Home Automation network through
specific adaptor devices.

Fig. 3. magDomus ecosystem

Setup
Install
The magDomus device is intended to be connected to a main power supply, to a communication
network and to one or more home automation networks.
1. Connect the device to the main power supply using the provided transformer and power cord.
Verify that the transformer is compatible in form factor and in electrical specification to the available
power mains standardized in your country. In case of incompatibility please contact your local
magnocomp supplier for a solution.
Fig. 4. Power supply transformer (example)
2. Connect the device to your local Ethernet network using the provided UTP cable with RJ-45
connectors.
Fig. 5. UTP cable with RJ45 connectors
One cable’s end should be connected to the Ethernet port of your magDomus device. The other end
can be connect to any RJ-45 socket from your local network or to an available port in any active

network equipment, like a router or a switch.
The connection to a network is recommended but not strictly required in order to configure and to
operate your equipment. Your device can be configured and operated through a locally attached
computer keyboard.
The connection to the Internet is not required to the basic operation of your equipment. If you
connect your device to local or home network, isolated from the public Internet, you will be able to
access most magDomus functionalities from any locally connected device in your home. Internet
connection is required only for remote access to your device from the Internet.
3. Connect the magDomus device to your home automation network using a specific adaptor device.
Each home automation adaptor must be declared in the “Home Automation” Setup page.
4. Optionaly, you may also connect your magDomus device to a Display using a standard VGA cable
with male connector. This cable may have been included in your display purchase kit or it may be
acquired from any usual supplier. Please verify compatibility with your display when purchasing this
cable.
Fig. 6. Standard VGA cable
The connection to the display is not required to configure or operate the magDomus system. It may
be used to provide an additional interaction station, to operate the magDomus system without a
network connection or for debug proposes.

Configure
The magnocomp’s magDomus can be configured locally, with a directly attached keyboard or through
the friendlier provided Web interface.
Accessing the configuration Web interface
When connected to a network, the brand new magDomus device will try to obtain a valid IP address
from the network using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). If there are no DCHP servers in
the attached network, or if the magDomus device cannot get a valid address within 60 seconds, it will
self configure its network interface with the default parameters:
Parameter
Default Value
IP Address
192.168.1.111
Net Mask
255.255.0.0
Gateway
none
You can use this default configuration parameters to implement a start-up haddock network
connecting your magDomus device directly to a computer. Use a standard network cable with RJ45
connectors and crossover connections.
If you connect your magDomus device to a network with DHCP services, you can try to find the IP
address given to your device using the management interface of your router or DHCP server.
When you know the IP address of your magDomus device you are ready to access its configuration
interface by pointing a standard Web browser to it. Just write the known IP address in the URL field of
your browser.

Device collector
The magnocomp’s device collector can help you finding your device in cases when you don't know its
IP address due to:
●You are using a local network where addresses are assign dynamically by a DHCP server (case
1), and/or
●You are trying to access from an external network to your device located in a private network
and the public address of the NAT gateway is dynamically assigned by the ISP’s DHCP server
(case 2).
Please note that if you are trying to connect from the outside to private network (case 2), even
though you already know or you can find the public address of the networks gateway, you may need a
specific permission and static route in your NAT gateway. Read section “Connecting from the
outside”.
Finding you device
Using a computer or any other Web enabled device, point your Internet browser to the devices
announcement collector in the magnocomp site:
http://www.magnocomp.com/device/find.php
This list presents collected recent announces from magnocomp's devices at your location.
The ability to announce itself to the magnocomp's devices collector is enable by default in every
device and can be disabled using the setup interface.
Only devices that share the public address with the requester are considered.
This list is only provided to Web clients located in the same private network as the considered
devices.
This information is provided only for device identification and setup and cannot be used in any other
intention.

Client Setup
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accessthemagDomussetuppage.Thefactorydefaultadministratorcredentialsare:
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User
admin
Password
admin
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Bysubmittingadministratorcredentials,youshouldberedirectedtothemagDomusSetup
page:
magDomusSetup
● HomeAutomation
● Network
● AccessControl
● DateandTime
● Scheduler
● Rebootdevice
● UserManual
●magnocompWebPortal
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Network Setup
To configure the network connection select the option “Network” in the configuration application.
The following network parameters can be defined:
DHCP
Use the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
Enter Yes to allow the device to request for an IP address and other
network parameters each time its starts up.
Enter No to specify a fixed IP address and the other parameters.
Name
The device name.
This name identifies the device inside the domain.