Step 5: Basic Evoko Home Setup
Overview
This procedure walks you through setting up a Global Organization in Evoko Home. An organization is a system of booking devices organized by locations, buildings, floors, and rooms.
A set of three tables is provided at the end of this article to describe the types of settings available in an organization.
Set Up Your Global Organization
Use the video or text procedure instructions here as best suits you.
1. Sign into Evoko Home using the credentials provided to in the Set Up Wizard at the end of Step 4: Connect Booking System to Evoko Home.
- These are the credentials you instructed to record in Step 6 of the "Connect Evoko Home to Exchange 2016, 2019" section.
2. Skip editing the Global Settings.
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During your first sign-in, you are given the option to set up Global Organization settings. These settings can be set later.
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For now we are going to skip them by pressing the Next button at the top right side of the screen.
3. Skip setting the default room settings.
- These are settings that will be automatically applied for all new imported rooms are imported. They can be changed later under Room Settings.
- For now, we will keep these default settings and by pressing Next.
4. Adding your Country, City, Building and Floors to your Organization. Press Add after entering the information.
- You will add rooms in a subsquent step.
5. Optional: Add additional locations (Country, city, and buildings) if you have them. Additional locations be added later as well as adding more buildings or floors to those that you just created.
6. Enter the email address of a room in the booking sytem in the Enter address to add single room field in the left pane.
- Addresses can be found in Microsoft Entra Admin Center.
7. Press Add Room after the Add Room button turns green.
8. Press OK after system acknowledges the successful addition of a room.
Congratulations! The added room should how in the left pane of the Evoko Home window.
9. Add your room to a building: Select and drag the room to the correct Floor and / or Location where it belongs.
- In the image below we moved The Compound to Floor 1.
10. Add locations and rooms as necessary. When complete press the Done for Now button.
Congratulations! You will now see the rooms you added to locations listed here.
Settings tables
The tables below briefly cover the setting topics and what they represent.
Default Global Settings
Setting | Description |
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Organization name | The name of your organization. |
NTP server IP | The IP Address or the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the NTP server that should be used for time synchronization between Evoko Home and the Evoko Liso devices. (e.g. pool.ntp.org ). |
Download URL | The URL that the Evoko Home server will use to check for firmware updates, default is https://download-liso.evoko.se/ |
Firmware search location | Determines where Evoko Home will look for new Liso firmware:
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Service account email | The email/username for your service account (e.g. service-account@domain.com) granted with impersonation rights. |
Service account password | The password for your service account (e.g. service-account@domain.com) granted with impersonation rights. |
Working hours | Determines when a work day starts and ends by configuring Start /End . |
Sync meetings for 1 day every | This is simply the sync period for meetings within the next 24 hours and how fast they are synced to Evoko Home/Liso/0365. |
Sync meetings for 7 days every | This is simply the duration in which Evoko Home will sync meetings scheduled within the next 7 days to sync to the Evoko Home/Device/0365. |
Authentication | This can be set to either PIN or PIN or RFID and determines the possible ways to authenticate on a Liso. |
RFID Enrollment |
Determines the different ways RFID can be enrolled and associated with a user in Evoko Home.
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Authentication 802.1x | This option can either be enabled or disabled, if enabled it allows for use of 802.1x with the Liso panels. Please find more information on how to set it up here. |
Pairing Key Authentication | You can set a password in Evoko Home. This password will need to be entered on each Liso before they can be connected to Evoko Home. |
Log Level | Determines how extensive the Evoko Home logging should be and can be set to 4 values of Error , Warning , Info , Debug . |
PIN length | Determines the length of the user PIN and can be set to between 3-9 Digits . |
Proximity | Enables/disables the proximity sensor on the Liso devices. |
Legacy API Authentication | Legacy API Authentication disables some parts of the API security that are necessary to upgrade devices using your network. |
Default Room Settings
Setting | Description |
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Display on screen |
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Time format | Determines the time format (12h or 24h) that should be used on the Liso device and can be set to either 24 hour format or 12 hour format . |
Date format | Determines the date format (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD ) that should be displayed on the Liso device. |
Time Zone | Determines the time zone that should be used on the Liso device. |
Language | Determines the language that should be used on the Liso device. |
Sleep start and Sleep end | Determines the time period the Liso device should entered sleep, a minimum of 4 hours sleep is required. |
Enable wake up on touch | Enables users to "wake up" Liso device from sleep by pressing on the touch panel. |
Work days | Determines the days the Liso device should be active and used. |
Require authentication settings
Below settings can all be set to Require authentication which means, if enabled that users will authenticate using PIN/RFID on screen.
Setting | Description |
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Enable Screen Reporting | Enables/disables users to report room equipment via the Liso unit. |
Reporting email | Determines the email address room equipment reports should be sent to for the "Report from screen" feature. |
Enable Book Instant Meeting | Enables/disables users to book meetings via the Liso unit. |
Enable book future meeting | Enables/disables users to book future meetings via the Liso unit. |
Enable end ongoing meeting | Enables/disables users to end an ongoing meeting via the Liso unit. |
Enable delete future meeting | Enables/disables users to end/delete future meetings via the Liso unit. |
Enable extend ongoing meeting | Enables/disables users to extend an ongoing meeting via the Liso unit. |
Enable modify future meeting | Enables/disables users to extend/edit future meetings via the Liso unit. |
Check-in required | Enables/disables a check-in feature which, if enabled, requires the user confirm their meeting on the Liso device within a set time limit to keep their booking. |
Send check-in reminder | This will send a reminder for check-in |
Check-in duration | Determines how long after the meetings start it should be possible to check-in before the system ends the meeting. Configurable values are 5min , 10min , 15min , 20min , 25min and 30min |