Video Transcript
Plugins Controlling Plugins
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Hopefully, by now, you know that CUS plugins
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offer a great no-code option for integrating
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third-party devices into your design.
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Pick from our growing library,
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drop it into your design, connect, and you’re done.
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Easy single-device control.
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But you may not realize the power that
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CUS brings to the table by bridging the
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functionality between plugins.
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Think about it:
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basically, plugins talking to other plugins through CUS,
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and maybe in ways that they were not even originally intended for,
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but ultimately opening up the possibilities for creating
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new intelligent automations for the users—all of this in a no-code,
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drag-and-drop environment.
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Each plugin has API access points called control pins,
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whose input and output data can be connected to or from other things,
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including CES things and other plugin ends.
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Combine that capability with some simple control logic blocks,
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and you can create some pretty cool automations.
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Let’s look at an example.
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In our conference room, we’re using the Space T occupancy sensor.
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We’re controlling it using the Space T plugin that we got from Asset Manager.
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It has an LED here in the current info tab that
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turns on when someone enters the room.
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So, let’s see how we could use that data to control other plugins as well.
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We’ll use some simple control logic down here to convert
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the true/false state of the LED to a couple of triggers
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to signify if the room is occupied or vacant.
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From here, we’ve wired it so that when a person enters the conference room,
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we trigger a lights-on preset from our ETC lighting controller plugin,
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and we trigger a lights-off preset when no one’s home.
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See? Plugins talking to plugins.
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We’ve also done similar exercises for the LG display and Romy Shades,
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each time connecting them to occupancy data.
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Now, let’s see it in action.
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When we see our subject enter the room,
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it lights up the occupancy sensor’s LED,
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which in turn turns on our lights, boots the display,
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and brings our shades down.
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And we’re all set for the next meeting just by walking in
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—achieved without a single line of code.
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Thanks for watching.
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We’ll see you next time.