Managing Zones

This section describes the options of the HDM Web GUI for managing home zones.

For zone information and management operations, go to the Zones tab of the HDM page in the Web Admin Console. The tab shows the zones in the Home Device Manager by name in a tree manner. For each zone, you can view its properties and the devices it contains.

Zone Details

To view the details about a home zone, select it and click button at the top right of the tab. The Zone Details page will appear containing information about the properties of the zone, and the devices in it.

Adding New Zones

To create a new zone, simply click the button at the top right of the Zones tab. Then fill in the name, type(s) and properties of the new zone, and click Save.

The new zone will appear in the Zones tree.

Deleting Zones

To delete a zone, select it from the Zones tree and click the button at the top right of the tab. A confirmation dialog will appear providing information about the home zone UID, name, parent(s), child home zone(s), if there are any, and all home devices included in the selected zone.

If the zone you want to delete is also present as a child zone in one or more parent home zones, only the selected one will be removed from HDM.

Nesting Zones

You can add one zone as a child to another by simply dragging the target zone and dropping it under the parent. Press the Ctrl keyboard key while dragging the zone to copy it to a desired parent home zone.

Filtering Zones

If there are many zones defined in a home system, you can easily locate those of interest by using the filter field at the top left of the Zones tab. Simply type the string that the names of matching zones must contain and then click the Apply button to apply the filter. The matching zones will be highlighted. If a zone is placed in a folded sub-tree, the ancestor nodes will be expanded.

Adding Devices to a Zone

A single home device can be added to multiple home zones. The only exception is the Root home zone which can contain only devices that are not present in other home zones. You are also not allowed to directly add/remove devices to/from the Root home zone.

To add a device to a specific home zone:

Select the zone from the Zones tree.
Select the device(s) you want to include in the zone from Available Devices.
Click the icon.

The devices will be moved to the Devices in Zone list.

Filtering Devices from the Lists

You may filter the devices shown in both lists (Available Devices and Devices in Zone) by the values of their Home Device properties:

Choose the property you want to use as a filter for the listed devices from the drop-down menu at the top. You can select from UID, Name, Status, Parent, Device Classes etc.
Type the value of the property in the next text field.
Click the button.

All devices with values different from the one you specified will be hidden from the list.

Controlling Device Class Objects in a Zone

Zones allow you to simultaneously control all devices that implement a given Device Class Interface:

In the Zones tab, open the details about the zone by using the button.
From the list of Device Classes, you can select the device class of the device class objects whose property you need to change.

The properties and operations defined in the device class will appear underneath.

Changing the Properties of Device Class Objects in a Zone

To change the property of all Device Class Objects that implement the selected interface:

From the Property fields select the property you want to change. The button next to a property indicates that the property is modifiable.
In the field next to the property type the new value.
For an array input argument, separate its elements with commas. For a Map, Dictionary or Bean input argument, specify its entries as a comma-separated list of "key=value" pairs.
Click the button to apply the changes.

Triggering Operations on Device Class Object in a Zone

To perform an operation on all Device Class Objects of a certain class in a zone:

In the Operation field, select the operation you want to execute.
Fill in its input arguments in the field underneath.
For an array input argument, separate its elements with commas. For a Map input argument, specify its entries as a comma-separated list of "key=value" pairs.
To execute the operation, click the button next to the Operation box.