New user impressions

[mickesanda 0]

Hi,

I,m new to the HomeCenter world, I come from the Vera community and i just purchased a HC2.

My goal is to make HC2 the master controller because of the faster hardware and nicer GUI and keep Vera3 as a slave controller for those functions that are still missing in HC.

1. The first thing that striked me is the lack of documentation and tutorials. Where can i find these?

2. There are very few plugins available.

I'm not a programmer, I'm a server admin and a home-automation enthusiast since a few years back. But the lack of tutorials makes it quite difficult even for a guy like me to begin with HC.

I hope that I will get some answers on this forum and I may be able to help others, and thank you Fibaro for a nice product.

/Mike

[goran 9]

Oh my god, I remember when I was a new Fibaro user wondering why there was no documentation. You will soon learn the hard way that this is not exactly the worst problem when it comes to Fibaro. Sorry, but you're in for a horrible ride.

[stevenvd 51]

Welcome,

Documentation is indeed quite limited

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Any questions, just ask! good luck with your integration

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[mickesanda 0]

Thx Steve, I found the docs.

/Mike

[Adam.Bewsher 2]

Hi mickesanda,

You can find support at:

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To get you going, you will find sections on

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,

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and

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.

Once your system is up and running, the

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will give you a brief introduction to programming in Lua. You can then look up examples for each of the fibaro: functions in the

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.

If you want some step by step guides, head to the

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. There is a new tutorial every 2 to 4 weeks. The

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as some handy virtual devices for connecting to non-z-wave devices and services.

And of course, there is this forum where the community comes up with lots of great ideas.

Welcome to the wonderful world of z-wave.

Happy Automating!

Adam Bewsher