Heres what i have, looking for advice

Community Playground Getting Started & Initial Setup
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Hello, i’m looking for some advice on getting started with zwave and some of the existing devices I have

Current
-Nest
-EVL -3 for my DSC 1832 alarm system
-Pioneer 1021 receiver, Airplay setup as (Living Room)
-In ceiling Master Bathroom speakers connected to an Airport express and audiosource 100 amp (Airplay Master Bathroom)
-In ceiling Play Room speakers connected to an Airport express and audiosource 100 amp (Airplay Play Room)
-wall mounted Garage speakers connected to an Airport express and audiosource 100 amp (Airplay Garage)
-DirecTv Genie HR-44 in the living room, HR-24 in the Master bedroom, Samsung F5500 smart TV set up as a DirectTv RVU client in the play room

On Order
-Veralite
-Yale door Lock
-Zwave garage door control***

My wife and I both have iPhones and iPads to control the music but would love to have one app to do it all. I was looking at the iVera app… does that work with the mios plugins? like for Directv, Evl-3, pioneer 1021, nest?

Is there a way for zwave to control my airplay speakers?

Any advice on what scenarios I can setup with this current system.

***I was looking at this for my current garage opener http://www.aartech.ca/product/00/MIMO-GARAGE/Fortrezz-MimoLite-Zwave-Garage-Door-Kit-With-Door-Sensor

Any other products I should be looking at?

Thanks

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One thing to keep in mind that all 3rd party apps require the developer to support each plugin available in Vera. So you’ll have to find an app that supports the plug-ins you want or request to have it supported.

  • Garrett
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@rsoares28

Looks like pretty much of the devices you have already, have plugins apart from the Airplay speakers part. For that, if you find a device that can push content to them (via Airplay) from a DLNA server, then you have a chance (using the DLNA plugin). Not sure if such a thing exists (maybe a jail-broken AppleTV or raspberry Pi?), but I guess maybe you could get inventive using some apple scripting to perhaps do it as a worst case scenario.

The best app to tie this altogether (assuming you want media control), would be either iRule, or SQremote.

As far as scenarios… if you can think it, then you can do it:

[ul][li]Turn on and tune DTV receiver based on presence, Lock PIN code or alarm arm state (home/away) etc [/li]
[li]Similar to the above, but have your Pioneer 1021 play music via the DLNA plugin[/li]
[li]Disarm alarm based on user PIN code entered on door lock[/li]
[li]Auto lock door if Alarm is armed[/li][/ul]

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Thanks for the replies. I’ve never worked with scripts before so I’ll just keep an eye on a couple threads I found with members discussing airplay.

Thanks for the scenes advice… Looking forward to getting my veralite to start setting this up.

Let’s say I wanted the foyer lights to turn on when the door was unlocked or garage door opened… Can I specify a time for that happen? Meaning, I don’t need the foyer lights to turn on when the door is unlocked during day light hours.

Thanks

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Check out the plugins and study up on pleg on the forum. There is a day night plug in and some simple setup for pleg to do exactly what you want. There is a really nice getting started guide for pleg you should study up on before getting your unit.

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Excellent thank you

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@rsoares28 (or anyone else)

Have you managed to somehow cause Vera to trigger streaming music using Airplay?

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Nope not yet but someone recently posted something regarding airplay in the “what did you so with Vera today” thread. Looked to complicated to dig into