Basic operations - page 1

The moment you take a Z-device out of its shipping box and turn it on, it automatically searches for other Z-devices with the same customer id and joins itself into a mesh network connecting them.

This connection is fully automatic. All network operations are handled internally by the Z-OS. The customer can be completely unaware of the network. There is no setup, one just takes them out of the box and turns them on.

All Z-devices have a unique serial number, burned into them at manufacture. It is printed on the box, on the invoice, on the device itself, and available programmatically as well.

Say you have a servo, serial number 839402. It is battery powered and radio connected. You merely set it down on a table, or glue it to a wall.

Then, from a unix system running the provided "Z-OS" app, you can type a command like:

   >> 839402.setAngle(27)

This causes the servo to rotate to 27 degrees. We can give 839402 a name, like this:

   >> name 839402 "myNewServo"

which then allows:

   >> myNewServo.setAngle(27)