Category:How To

Revision as of 19:38, 17 May 2011

Here you will find all pages that gives users easy to follow instructions on how to setup, configure or edit functionality of their vera.

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How to install LUUP plugins on your vera

Prerequisits

• vera 1 or 2
• LUUP capable firmware
• This manual start with the assumption you have downloaded the appropriate .json and .xml files to your harddisk.

Intro

Heres a short manual on how to install LUUP plugins into your vera.

Official repository for plugins: http://code.mios.com

Alternative location (for now) [1]

also in various forum threads coders provide their code or complete plugins.

Link to forum

please find more info here [2]

Instructions

1. Open you vera UI 2. Upload the files of the plugin you downloaded to your VERA box: 'MiOS Developers' -> 'Luup files' -> 'Upload files'.

  (see screenshots attached)

3. Check 'Restart Luup after upload' (bottom of the page), click 'Go' and wait for Lua to restart. 4. Create a new Luup device with UpnpDevFilename D_<yourplugin>.xml. 5. Set the Description to whatever you want to name the device.

  (see schreenshot attached)

6. Restart the Lua engine several times to initialise the UPnP variables (curving arrows top right in your UI.

  In some case a power cycle/reboor of your vera is neccesary.

7. Make the appropriate LUUP variable settings as per directions for the creator of the plugin.

Advanced

None

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