In this article, we'll walk you through how to add peripherals.

What

Nobi allows for different devices to be connected to the lamp. We call these ‘peripherals’. These peripherals simplify the way you work and/or allow for more insights to be gathered. In order to use these peripherals, they need to be connected via bluetooth to a lamp within a housing unit. Some peripherals are applicable to an individual lamp, while others apply to the entire housing unit.

For a detailed description of the different sorts of peripherals, go to our Types of peripherals page.

Why

It's important to connect each peripheral to the right lamp to make sure they work well together. This helps the lamp know exactly which device to communicate with.

Adding peripherals

Setting up peripherals with Nobi is easy thanks to a wizard that guides you from selecting the appropriate peripheral to pairing it with the lamp.

Detailed steps 

Let’s add a new peripheral to a lamp. Since the connection is made via bluetooth, make sure to keep the peripheral near to the lamp you want it to connect to. In this example, we’ll connect a Nobi button to the lamp to be able to be used as a snooze button.

1. Go to Housing units in the left menu.

2. Navigate to the housing unit where you want to add a peripheral and click edit.

3. Go to the tab Peripherals and click on the + add.

4. A wizard will open which takes you through 3 steps:
   1. Peripherals type: choose the desired function and the type of the peripheral. 
      1. Choose the function you want the peripheral to have. Let’s choose for Snooze alarm/Close escalation.

2. Choose the type of peripheral. We want to connect the Nobi kinetic button which is self-powered.

3. You will now have the option to choose the product you want. In this case there is only one option and so it’s already selected. Click next when you’re done. Click next to go to the next step in the wizard.

2. Link to a room: 
   1. Choose the room within the housing unit which is the closest to the peripheral you want to add. The light of this lamp will flash when you click on the room in the app. Click next to go to the last step.
      
3. Nobi will now provide the instructions to pair the peripheral. 
   1. Now follow the instructions on the screen. 

2. When pairing (and calibrating) is successful, you will return to the peripherals tab with the new peripheral added to the view. At the top of the screen, Nobi will display that the pairing is successfully completed.

You have now successfully added a peripheral to the lamp.