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Wi-Fi Access Point uses a Web Browser to Control Lighting, Appliances, Security Cameras and More
If you are looking to automate your home with Z-Wave lighting and appliance control, the Vera2 Automation Controller will give you the power to take advantage of full-featured home automation and make it simple. The Vera2 system is based on a Wi-Fi access point that links with your wireless router. Once connected, the Vera2 interface can be accessed as a web browser from a web-enabled PC, phone or PDA anywhere in the world.
Web Access
The findvera.comservice makes it very easy to access Vera2 from any web browser in the world. When you are setting up Vera2 for the first time, on the findvera.com tab just pick a username and password. Then, from any web browser in the world go to findvera.com and enter that same username and password to be directly connected to your Vera2 and be in full control of your home with the ability to view your security cameras. The findvera.com website is secure, using the same security as online banks to protect your financial transactions.
- Secure remote access/control via the the gateway server – This feature allows you to utilize Mi Casa Verde’s secure gateway, with nothing to configure, to access and control your system from a web browser or cell phone. If you know how to setup port forwarding or give Vera a routable IP, you can remotely access Vera2 for free. However, unless you have an SSL certificate, the connection won’t be secure.
- SMS, Email or voice call alerts when an event occurs – With this feature, Vera will let you know when an event has occurred, per your setup. Note that Vera can be set up to use your own outgoing email service for free; however text messages are an extra fee. Text messages are not included as part of the basic FindVera.com service, but for $29/year you can receive notifications by SMS text message in addition to, or instead of, the free email notifications. This price includes up to 50 SMS text messages for the year, domestic or international, to any cell phone carrier worldwide. This price also includes 1GB of storage on the findvera server to store a video archive from your surveillance and IP web cams, which cameras can be tied to sensors and door locks so you have a video record of who is coming and going from the home. This is enough for about 50,000 images.
- Video archiving – If you’d prefer not to store videos on your PC, the FindVera.com service can do it for you. Up to 1GB of data can be stored and encrypted with a unique hardware key so only you have access to them on Mi Casa Verde’s server.
- Energy logging – This feature will allow you to keep a record of all the energy usage reported by Vera every 60 minutes for every device in the home on the secure servers of Mi Casa Verde. Data is kept for a year, and charts and graphs displaying your usage are automatically generated. If you are familiar with setting up your own database server and know how to generate graphs, you could also do this yourself.
- Automatic daily backups – If you don’t want to back Vera up yourself, this service will do it for you daily, with up to 15 backup sets. If anything happens to Vera, your configuration will be safe.
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