Basic System Setup

Welcome to Vera. It is not necessary to read the complete User's Manual before starting.   Every Vera system includes a "Quick Start Guide" to help you get up and running very quickly without reading this User's Manual.  If you get stuck, Vera includes "Help" buttons that link to the relevant page in this User's Manual.

Vera is the simplest and most affordable way to automate your home for comfort, convenience and energy savings.  This Getting Started section explains what you can do with Vera, what's involved with setup, and how this User's Manual is organized.  First, what can you do with Vera? 

What can you do with Vera? 

Home Security

Vera is a home security system that manages and controls your door locks, alarm system, and surveillance cameras.  Using your mobile phone or any web browser, you lock and unlock doors, arm and disarm your existing monitored alarm system, control who has access to your home, view a video archive of everything that happened at home and correlate this with when security sensors are tripped. 

Vera introduces highly innovating home security features like "Keyless Go" for the home. For example, "Keyless Go" can be set up to trigger lights and appliances off, your alarm system on, and change the thermostat temperature whenever you lock your front door from the outside. This set up reverses when you return home and unlock the door. 

Vera can also send email and SMS text alerts whenever something happens at home. Examples of these "Triggers" include alarms being tripped, water pipes bursting, or someone entering the home. 

Energy Conservation

Vera creates an Energy Profile to track how much energy all the devices in your home use.  Vera also keeps a log of all your energy consumption and creates simple graphs and charts to show your historic energy usage by device, type of device and room. 

Vera can also send alerts if devices are left on when nobody is at home.  Vera's timers and events help reduce energy consumption by ensuring lights go off promptly at sunrise, the heating/cooling system is always lowered when nobody is home or when you go to bed, and so on. 

Home Automation & Remote Home Management

You always have secure remote control over Vera with the web panel and mobile phone applications, which are protected with the same type of Internet security as online banking systems. 

Vera makes it very easy to create sophisticated "scenes", timers and events to automate everything. Vera controls most popular home automation devices, like Z-Wave, INSTEON, and X-10, as well as legacy serial devices like alarm panels, pool controls, weather stations and so on. 

Universal Remote Control & Media integration

Vera also controls all of your audio/video gear by infrared or serial, and turns your mobile phones into handy and comfortable universal remote controls.  Vera also provides basic control over media devices, like set top boxes. 
 

Design Features
[]	Z-Wave
[]	868.42MHz EU
[]	DC 12V / 1A
[]	CPU: 500M Hz MIPS SoC; Flash Memory: NAND 32 MB; SDRAM Memory: 32 MB; DDR2 Memory: 128 MB; USB Ports: 2; WAN Ports: 1; LAN Ports: 4; Z-Wave: Built-in with internal antennae; Wi-Fi: 802.11n
[]	30% to 80%
[Certification]	FCC, CE, RoHS