Before starting, we assume that you will have an Adquio controller at your disposal, to start it you will need a 24 volt DC power supply.
Adquio controllers work internally with an architecture of devices and variables. For Adquio, any other element it connects to (other controllers, expansions, gateways, etc.) is a device, and this device has variables. This standardizes any external device that provides data to Adquio into this simple architecture.
Additionally, Adquio also has the figure of modules, which are nothing more than drivers to connect with different types of protocols or physical media. All devices that Adquio manages always have a module associated with them. Examples of modules are: BACnet IP, Modbus RTU, etc. Additionally, in these modules, you can select the associated Adquio port on which it will work.
Adquio saves all configuration data for these devices in JSON format. Therefore, every device you configure manually will eventually be saved in this format. This represents an advantage for you, since it allows you to automate the creation of new and complex devices. Additionally, it allows you to copy one device from another very easily.
Well, we are going to base ourselves on this quality to send to Adquio all the values exported in the previous chapter.
But first, let’s see how we connect to the Adquio controller and how we get to its web interface. To make the connection with the Adquio controller you have two main options, by cable or by Wi-Fi (valid for Adquio Pro, Lite, and Mini).
Step 1:
Be sure to not having the WAN port connected, (in Adquio Mini, simply that the network cable of its only port is not connected).
Step 2:
Power the Adquio, and wait a few seconds
Step 3:
On a laptop or tablet, in the list of available Wi-Fi, you will see one named adquio-XXXXXX
Connect to that Wi-Fi with the password: oiuqda-0m3d
Step 4:
Once connected, open a browser and see the address: http://172.20.21.1
Step 5:
You will see the Adquio user input screen. Use the username and password that goes on all Adquio boxes.
Step 6:
It will ask you to change the password, We strongly request that you do so. And write it down in a safe place.
Step 7:
Now you can enjoy all its functions!
Step 1:
Power the Adquio with a 24 V source, and wait a few seconds.
Plug a network cable into one of the LAN ports.
Step 2:
We connect the other end of the network cable to a computer and make sure that its network settings are set to automatic. (You need Gigabit Ethernet port)
Step 3
We wait for the computer to obtain an IP address, normally the system will notify us of this.
Step 4
Once connected, we open our favorite Web browser (We recommend Chrome) and go to the address: http://172.20.20.1
Step 5
We will see this user entry page, we must use the username and password that goes in all Adquio boxes.
Step 6
It will invite us to change the password for a personalized one, we must do it, since otherwise our Adquio will be vulnerable.
Step 7
We are now inside the Adquio Web Interface, we can now enjoy all its fantastic features!
How to change language
At the top right you have available a button that allows you to switch between English, Spanish, or French. Select the one that best suits your preferences.
Ok, if you have followed the steps, you will already be inside the Adquio interface, well, let’s go from here.
On the Adquio main page, to the left of the logo, you will see a little arrow, if you press it, the menu legends will open.
Click on ‘Devices’, and then on ‘Modules’, this will take you to this page
Click on the ‘+’ button to add a new module.
On the page that appears, we only need to cover three fields:
We are done, click on ‘SAVE’ and this will cause a red button to light up at the top indicating that you have unconfirmed changes.
Click on it, and confirm the changes by clicking on ‘Apply changes’.
| ! | You already have the module created, you only need to do this once, since as you will see below, all Lithenet devices will share it. You should only generate more than one module if you have devices of this type on both the LAN and WAN ports. |
Very good, we now have everything ready to import our device. To do this, we go to ‘Devices’, and again ‘Devices’.
This opens the following page.
As in the previous case, click on the ‘+’ button at the top right to create a new device
Importing the device, You won’t do anything.
Just scroll down to the bottom of this page until you find this button:
Press it, and with this you will open a window where you will see some text.
Simply delete all the text you see, and paste the one we copied in the previous chapter.
Adquio will read the pasted text and create the device for you, you can check it at the top where you will see that all the fields are now covered.
You see that it has respected the code that we had indicated ‘Lithernet01’
We continue down and see that it has also brought us the device instance. What remains to be indicated is the module, since this cannot come from the import because we defined it in Adquio, click on the ‘Module’ drop-down menu and select the that we created in the previous case.
We click on the button on the right that we indicate:
And we will see that it has also correctly brought us the indicated IP address.
We leave here with ‘Cancel’.
And finally, we check that it has correctly brought us all the variables that we had selected. In this case, the ‘Level’ variable for all scenes and groups.
We press the ‘SAVE’ button. As in the previous case, you must confirm the changes in the red button above.
You have finished.
With this, Adquio will now have full access to the Lithernet device and all the variables of the Casambi network that we have selected.
