[ul][list][list]I am sorry that I have not been able to make the setup 100% bullet proof. With your help and feedback I hope to get there soon.
If you have problems tell me what you have been able to accomplish from this list … and provide me with your Vera Serial number.
You can send me a personal message or email me.
The following should help you get going and provide me with information to help you proceed.[list type=decimal][li]Install the local ConciergeServer software and configure it from the browser
https://localhost:8989
If you want to access this local ConciergeServer from another machine use:
https://IP.Address.OfComputer.RuningConciergeServer:8989
Verify that the detected Concierge Server address is the static IP address of the machine running the software and not the loopback address 127.0.01
Verify that you are using a Java 1.8 Virtual Machine.
These can be checked by looking at the “Discovery” section from browser before you start configuring.
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[li]Configure your Vera Remote Access Accounts
Verify that it discovers your Veras
It should also find your Local Google Home and Google Cast Devices.
When you see the Vera, Click the Connectivity button. When it passes it means Vera and Concierge server can both initiate a request to the other. Typical problems are:
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[li]The devices are not all on the same LAN. Typically the first 3 numbers of the IP address should be the same for:[list][li]Vera[/li]
[li]Local Concierge Server[/li]
[li]Google Home/Cast Devices[/li][/list][/li]
[li]Fiirewall Issues on the machine running the Local Concierge Server
Turn off the firewall on see if things work. The firewall needs to accept connections from ports 8989 and 8998[/li]
[li]Concierge Server did not setup your Vera Properly.
On your Vera goto Apps → Develop Apps → Startup Lua
Make sure it contains the line: require(“ConciergeServer”)
On your Vera goto Apps → Develop Apps → Luup Files
Make sure it contains a file named ConciergeServer.lua
If not you can extract this from the ConciergeServer.jar. Copy the file to ConciergeServer.zip and use zip to access a copy of the file.
Then use the Apps → Develop Apps → Luup Files to upload. Make sure you check the “Reload” option.
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[li]At the bottom of the local ConciergeServer configuration page click:
Update Vera Concierge Server Cloud Info
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[li]Login to the Cloud Vera Concierge “My Account” page with the same Google Account you will use to run you Google Assistant software
(via Google Home, or your mobile phone)
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[li]Click the button labeled:
Connectivity
This Verifies that the Vera Concierge Cloud server can talk your local Vera via the Vera Remote Access Servers, and that your Vera can forward requests to the Local Concierge Server.[/li]
[li]If step 6 does not work then reboot the machine running the Local Concierge Server.
This will try to reinitialize the software on your Vera.
If that does not work:
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[li]On your Local Concierge Server goto logs, click Clear Display then Display Log[/li]
[li]On your Local Concierge Server goto the Config page and click Update and Restart[/li]
[li]After about 4 minutes send email me the output from the Log file. [/li]
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[li]If step 6 completes than all of the communication paths are setup properly. Not it’s time to start talking.
Using a mobil device with the Google Home app installed.
[list][li]Make sure the app is using the same account as Step 4.[/li]
[li]Use the Explore menu and Search for Vera Concierge[/li]
[li]If it is already linked, unlink it.[/li]
[li]Link it using the same account from Step 4.[/li][/list][/li]
[li]On your Google Home say:
OK google talk to Vera Concierge
It may not recognize this … you might try to spell out Vera the first time …
OK google talk to V E R A Concierge
It gets better after it successfully understands you…
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[li] If you have a light called Office Light than you can say:
Turn on the Office Light
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[li] If It does not understand something that you say … just say goodbye …
Then open your Google Home app on your mobile.
Select the menu entry. “My Activity”
You can see what you said what Vera thought you said.
Maybe you said Light, but Google assistant though you said lite.
We can fix that two ways
a) Spell out light
Turn on the Office L I G H T
It will learn as it goes
b) Give your Office Light an alias called Office Lite
Go to your local ConciergeServer (See step 1)
Next to your Vera (in the Discovered Devices Section) click “Custom Settings”
Find your Device and add an Alias
Go back to the Browser page showing the ConciergeServer (See step 1) and click “Update Vera Concierge Server Cloud Info”
This will force the Google Assistant to rebuild it’s knowledge of your devices and setting.
You can also force Vera Concierge to update it’s current list of names by issuing the following command to Vera Concierge:
Reset “The Name Of Your Vera”
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