Step 5: Basic Evoko Home Setup
Set Up Your Global Organization
- After the first sign in, you will have the option to edit your Global Settings. You can adjust these settings later, for now we are going to proceed by pressing the Next button.
- Prompt: Default Settings for All Rooms: Settings that will be automatically applied for all new rooms that are imported. These settings can later be changed in Room Settings. For now, we will keep these default and Press Next.
- Prompt: Add Buildings and Rooms: Start by adding your Country, City, Building and Floors to your Organization. Press Add.
- You will now see the structure you just added. If there are other locations, buildings or floors you can add those as well. If not, you could always add more at a later time.
- Navigate to the Enter Address to Add Single Room option on the left hand side.
- Enter the Room Email Address of the Room you want to add. This can be found in Microsoft Entra Admin Center if you are unsure. Press Add Room
- Prompt: Room Created! Press OK
- The added room will now show in our list.
- Click and drag the room to the correct Floor/Location. In the image below we moved The Compound to Floor 1.
- Add locations and rooms as necessary. When complete press the Done for Now button.
- You will now see the rooms you added to locations listed here.
- You can now proceed with Connecting your Liso Panel to Evoko Home.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Below settings can all be set to Require authentication which means, if enabled that users will authenticate using PIN/RFID on screen.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 |