Using the Lyric Alarm System as a Secondary Z-Wave Controller

idea wires Joey are from alarm grid and today we're going to talk about how to interface a lyric security system as a secondary controller on a z-wave network now what that means is that for example today actually we have a Samsung smartthings right here now we're going to be talking about let's say that you have the lyric and the smartthings both installed in your home if you have multiple lights around the house as an example it's going to get kind of messy if you have to include some into the smart things and some into the lyric when you set the lyric as a secondary controller and the z-wave Network they'll both be able to see the lights they'll both be able to activate them and they're both going to know the light status another benefit that you can use with this setup is that the lyric is a robust system but it's z-wave programming doesn't include if-then conditions whereas smart things and many other z-wave controllers can do that when you have the lyric set up as a secondary controller on the network for any of those if-then programming conditions or any other more advanced scheduling or rules that you can set up on other z-wave controllers they'll actually be able to do that and operate the lights or other z-wave devices the lyric will be able to see what's going on and this way you can have them work exactly the way that you want in the house another benefit is that the lyric isn't compatible with certain zero devices that are compatible with other z-wave controllers when you have the lyric set up as a secondary controller on the network they won't be able to necessarily see the devices or activate them but at very least the program that you do on the primary controller that controls those non compatible devices you can mix those into other devices that are compatible with the lyric to get the most out of your z-wave system if you do program it with the smart things one caveat is that you can interface or enroll the zero devices on either the smart things or on the lyric most situations when the lyric is set up as a secondary controller it can't include or exclude devices normally only the primary controller on the z-wave Network is able to do that now let's take a look at actually how to interface it with the smart things as a secondary controller on the lyric itself we're going to click on autumn we're going to click the down arrow then we're going to click on tools advanced tools and enter your installer code the button that we're going to use to learn it in as a secondary controller is the learn button right down here one thing that you're going to want to do before you do this action is remove any Zeo devices that are on the lyric from the system you want it to be totally fresh when you enroll it over we've seen that it can cause some issues if you do have devices on it and if you find that you're the learning or the joining process of joining the lyric to the smartthings fails that's one thing to double-check on and now on the smartthings if we load it up you can see that we do have a bulb programmed in to the smart things when we join the lyric as a secondary controller to the system it's actually going to pass that bulb information over to the lyric and the lyric will also be able to control the bulb it'll also know the status of the bulb this will only work with devices that are compatible with the lyric devices that are not compatible with the lyric you'll be able to program them into scenes and rules on the smart things and you'll be able to integrate them in scenes and rules with devices that are compatible with the lyric so it's still going to track the status of anything that it can see on this menu you see we have add a thing so if we click that now it's in the learn mode so with this loaded up we're going to go with the lyric and we're going to click on learn as you can see it started the process in a moment this should show up on the screen and join to the system but it can take up to 15 minutes for the network to settle and for them to pass all the information needed over to each other during this time it's best to just let them sit and do their thing to make sure that nothing goes wrong after that completes then you should be able to control the devices from either system and do whatever program that you're interested in as you can see it did find the lyric so if you click here we can rename the device if we want to click done click Save and then ok the lyric also says done now if we head back over to the lyric system I press the back arrow we click on switches as you can see it's actually seeing it as a failed node right now it's still passing information back and forth between the two systems as I said before give it like 15 minutes for it to completely settle and you should be okay but as you can see it does see the light switch that is programmed into the smartthings as you go forward using smart things you can program devices either to the smart things or to the lyric most case scenarios you can only enroll them on the primary controller though that's another thing to keep in mind that's how to setup your lyric security system as a secondary controller on a z-wave network if you have any questions feel free to give us a call shoot us an email head over to our website also we have lots of great facts on this subject if you did enjoy the video go ahead and hit subscribe and if you want to be updated when we post future videos hit the notification buttons and we'll send you an update thanks for visiting gonna have a great day