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3. After requesting an account, an email will be sent to the address entered here once the account has been authorized. LMCS will
not provide any indication that the account has been authorized.
Creating a Site
After logging in, the next step is to create a Site. A site allows you to save all Project parameters onto the cloud, so they can easily be
accessed from more than one computer. Additionally, the Site provides security, as only the user who creates the site and any other
users who are specifically authorized will be able to access the site data as well as the devices themselves.
1. From the
Menu
in the Account section of the ribbon, select “New Site”. The
Manage Site
dialog opens.
Manage Site
2. You must enter all fields marked with an asterisk. Others are optional.
The Site Primary Contact section is used if you need to recover site information. A code can be sent to the user from Wattstopper
support, to unlock the site information.
The
Latitude
and
Longitude
fields are for informational purposes only. (There are other Latitude and Longitude fields, in the
Set
Site Time
dialog which are used for Astro scheduling, to determine the exact times of sunrise and sunset—see the section on
DLM Site Time/Location in the LMCS-100 Operation manual. But any information entered on the Manage Site dialog does not
affect the fields in that dialog.)
3. Click
Save
. LMCS will create the site on the cloud. Only the site is created at this point, with no project attached. Once you have
created a project, or begun partial work on it, clicking
Save
will save that project to disk. To save the project to the site, click
Save
To Cloud
.
Connecting to a Network with both Wired and Wireless Rooms
In the case of a network with both wired and wireless rooms, the wired rooms will include an LMBC-650 network bridge. The process
of connecting to this network is identical to the process for an all wireless network. However, during the wireless discovery process, for
rooms with wired devices you will only discover the wireless bridge in each room. After that, from within the page for the bridge itself,
you can run a separate discovery to discover the wired devices connected to that bridge. For details, see the section on the LMBC-650
in the LMCS-100 Operation Manual.
Additionally, an LMBC-650 can support a hybrid room with both wired and wireless devices. In this case, the wireless devices are
discovered along with the LMBC-650, and the wired devices discovered separately.
LMBR-650 NETWORK SETUP
IMPORTANT
– At default, the LMBR-650 is configured for DHCP and requires DNS to provide it with a IP address before you can
even connect to it. Therefore, all LMBR-650s (as well as the computer) must be connected to a router when you initially discover it
within LMCS. If you do not plan to have the router permanently connected to the network, you must switch the LMBR-650 to a static IP
address, once it has been discovered. If there are multiple LMBR-650s, set each one to a different IP address and they will all be able to
communicate both with LMCS and with each other.
Therefore, Wattstopper recommends the following steps for setting up communication between LMCS and all LMBR-650s in your
project:
1. Connect your PC and all LMBRs to a router. If there is more than one LMBR, one will be used as the Primary and should be
connected to the others using Ethernet cable, via a switch.
