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Rainforest Automation EAGLE User Manual

Other manuals for EAGLE: Quick Start Manual, Quick Start Manual
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    Eagle ™ energy access gateway link to ethernet user manual version 2.2_bch july 2015.

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    Eagle ™ user manual 2 copyright © 2015 by rainforest automation, inc (“rfa”). All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any from without the expressed, written permission of rfa. Under copyright law, this manual or the software described within, cannot be copied...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 3 eagle ™ – energy access gateway link to ethernet rfa-z109 version 2.2_bch user manual table of contents regulatory information ............................................................................................................ 4 quick setup ...............................

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    Eagle ™ user manual 4 regulatory information fcc notices this device complies with part 15 of the fcc rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference tha...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 5 quick setup step 1: prerequisite software and hardware 1) a free ethernet port on a router directly connected to the internet. 2) a pc or other device with a web browser. Step 2: power up the eagle ™ 1) plug the ethernet cable into a port on your router, and the other end into ...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 6 fill in the registration information. Click the “i’m not a robot” box; then click the blue “register” bar at the bottom of the page. You will see a message that tells you that an email has been sent to you. Check your email to find the message from rainforest automation with th...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 7 you will see a page that says: “please add a device”. Click the blue “+ new gateway” bar. This sends you to the “add new gateway” page. Enter the cloud id and the install code for your eagle ™. These numbers can be found on the information label that is on the underside of the ...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 8 this will connect you to your eagle ™, and you should see the “usage” page:.

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    Eagle ™ user manual 9 features of your eagle ™ status led lights information label hardware ports keyholes for wall mount.

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    Eagle ™ user manual 10 introduction to your eagle ™ congratulations on getting an eagle ™, the most versatile link to your smart meter energy information. This device is a compact gateway that connects directly to the smart meter using zigbee wireless. It reads the meter in real time, and streams th...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 11 eagle ™ status led lights your eagle ™ has four led lights at the front of the top of the device. These lights give you a quick way to check the status of your device. Power led – shows that the device is powered on. It should always be on when the unit is plugged in. Ethernet...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 12 eagle ™ hardware ports your eagle ™ has three interface ports on the back. From right to left, these ports are: power – the included ac adapter plugs into this socket. The other end of the adapter plugs into a nearby power outlet. Ethernet – the included ethernet cable plugs i...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 13 understanding the information label the information label is located on the underside of your eagle ™. It contains important information that you will need to operate your device. Zigbee area – this area at the top of the label has two fields: o mac: the 802.15.4 zigbee macid....

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    Eagle ™ user manual 14 web viewer functions your eagle ™ internal web server can be accessed directly on your local home network, or from anywhere via rainforestcloud.Com. The user interface is the web viewer. It has four function buttons down the right side. These buttons can be used to see more de...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 15 there are two display modes: current usage, shown above, displays the rate at which you are consuming energy in kilowatts. This is shown as a self-scaling meter graph with a number below. Meter reading, shown below, displays the raw, total accumulated electricity usage reading...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 16 the dates for the current billing cycle are shown in grey in the upper left of the pricing panel. Note the small green dot that will appear at the top left corner of the “usage” page. This indicates when an update to the usage has been received from the meter. In the centre of...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 17 history button clicking the history button takes you to a page that can display graphs of your historical usage. There are two display modes that you can select from the dropdown menu in the bottom left corner of the screen: demand, shown above, displays the rate at which you ...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 18 you can switch between the graph time periods using the buttons under the graph. If you hover the cursor over the graph, a box will pop up with the detailed info for the data point at that spot on the graph. You can zoom in to an area on the graph by clicking on a spot and dra...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 19 messages button clicking the messages button takes you to a page that can display text messages sent to you by your utility. When a new text message is received from the meter, you will see the messages button pulse red to indicate that there is an active message. When you cli...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 20 settings button clicking the settings button takes you to the main “settings” page. This page contains several “collapsed” bars representing sub-pages. Each bar contains summary status information about that sub-page, and will expand to a full separate screen when selected. Th...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 21 eagle sub-page expanding the eagle status bar on the settings page brings up the eagle sub-page. This sub-page is used to configure the time zone, language, and adjust price settings. Time – select the time source, either “from internet” (default), or “from meter” (if no inter...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 22 internet sub-page expanding the internet status bar on the settings page brings up the internet sub-page. This sub-page provides information about the connection between your eagle ™ and the internet. Cloud sub-page expanding the cloud status bar on the settings page brings up...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 23 after filling these in, clicking the “add cloud” button at the bottom right will add this service to the cloud list. Clicking the “subtract cloud” icon ( ) will remove the currently selected provider from the cloud list. Note that you cannot remove any of the pre-loaded provid...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 24 advanced settings page the advanced settings page can be reached by clicking the gear icon in the lower right corner of the eagle sub-page. This page provides information about your eagle ™ hardware and firmware, and lets you set some network configuration options. Your eagle ...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 25 the “factory reset” button on the left of the page should be used with caution! It reboots the eagle ™, terminates the smart meter connection, clears all of the history data, and sets all options to original factory settings. The meter will not talk to the eagle ™ again until ...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 26 using your cloud account your cloud account on rainforestcloud.Com makes it easy for you to connect to your eagle ™ from anywhere. It also allows you to manage access to more than one eagle ™ from a single account. Creating a cloud account to create a cloud account, use your w...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 27 check your email to find the message from rainforest automation with the subject line “please confirm your registration”. Click the link in the message. This will send you to your browser and to a page that confirms that your account has been activated. Click the word “here” t...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 28 managing your gateway list the gateway page shows a list of eagle ™ gateways that you can connect to. It is the default page when you log in to your cloud account. To get to the gateway page from any other page, click the word “gateway” in the command bar at the top of the pag...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 29 you can additional eagle ™s to the list on the gateway page by clicking the blue “+ new gateway” bar and repeating the process. Beside each eagle ™ in the list there are two symbols: clicking on the connect ( ) icon will connect you directly to the listed eagle ™ and will show...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 30 once you have entered the information, click the blue “update changes” bar to save the new information. This page allows you to change the password for your cloud account. Note that changing your password may affect the ability of applications, such as smartphone apps, to acce...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 31 connecting to a cloud service to set up a connection to the cloud service of your choice, click the settings button in the lower right of the web viewer, then expand the cloud status bar to bring up the cloud sub-page. Now you can select the cloud service you want from the dro...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 32 connecting to wattvision set up the eagle ™ upload server 1) in the cloud sub-page, select “wattvision” from the drop-down menu for “provider”. 4) click the “set cloud” button. Get a wattvision account note that wattvision uses your google account for sign in. If you do not ha...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 33 3) after you sign in, google will ask you to allow wattvision to connect to your account: click the “allow” button. 4) you will now be returned to the wattvision site: in the “cloud id” field, enter: the 6-digit cloud id found on the information label on the underside of the e...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 34 view your wattvision data click the “live” tab in the “my house” screen to see your near real time data:.

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    Eagle ™ user manual 35 connecting to bluedot set up the eagle™ upload server 1) in the cloud sub-page, select "bluedot " from the drop- down menu for “provider”. 2) click the "set cloud" button. Get a bluedot account open another window in your web browser and go to bluedot.Com . Click the “signup” ...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 36 this will send you to your b rowser and to the “signup completion” page. Fill out the form and click the “complete signup” button at the bottom of the page. Then you will go to the “home dashboard” page. Click the blue “get a realtime monitor” button. You will see the “add a d...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 37 you will see the current status of your eagle™. If it is not shown as connected, refresh the page after a few minutes. View your bluedot data click the “energy” link in the web page header, or the “my home” link in the mobile app to see your real time, projected and historical...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 38 connecting locally to your eagle ™ if the “enable security” check box in the lower left corner of the advanced settings page is not checked, then your eagle ™ can only communicate through your local network. You can do this using a web browser. The computer running the web bro...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 39 be sure that you enter both of these numbers without spaces, or any punctuation such as colons or quotes, and without any prefixes, such as “0x”. All letters must be lowercase. Finally, you will be asked to confirm once again. Install code cloud id.

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    Eagle ™ user manual 41 troubleshooting guide symptom: you cannot add your eagle ™ to your cloud account. The add new gateway screen says, “security is not enabled on the gateway”. A. Connect locally to your eagle ™ (see the “connecting locally to your eagle ™” section). B. Go to the advanced setting...

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    Eagle ™ user manual 42 symptom: the web viewer just shows “loading” and is unable to get data. F. Ensure that you have contacted your utility, and they have loaded your meter with your device information, and the meter is ready to communicate with the eagle ™. G. Check that the eagle ™ zigbee light ...