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Now that you have webCoRE installed and up to date, lets go ahead and walk through the steps to make a simple piston that will turn on a light switch when motion is active. From the dashboard.webcore.co main page just follow these easy steps.

#We are going to click on '''Add a new piston''' in the upper left corner of the screen
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#A dialog box will open and we want to choose '''Create a blank piston'''
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#*Which will then open this dialog box
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#Now simply fill in the Author (that is you!) and we will name this '''My First Piston - Motion Lights'''. We will also enable Automatic Backup by clicking on the no to change it to yes
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#After clicking create we are brought to the Piston Editor/Script View. Click on '''Add a new statement'''
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#Click on '''Add an if'''
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#Click on '''Add a condition'''
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#Now we are going to select a motion sensor
#The default is '''Physical Device(s)''', now click the middle box that says '''Nothing Selected''' and choose a motion sensor then select '''motion''' as the attribute
#For the comparison select '''changes to''' under the '''Triggers''' category
#Finally select '''active''' if not already selected and click '''Add'''
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#Now that we have our trigger, lets add an action by clicking on '''Add a new statement''' below the '''then'''
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#This time we want to do something so select '''Add an action'''
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#Here you can search for the device to limit the drop down or scroll down to find it. Select the '''Switch/bulb''' you want to control
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#Now we are going to select the command we want to use. Find '''Set Level...''' in the list and choose it.
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#Before we add this task we want to set the level to '''100''' then click add
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#We have our simple motion lights piston all set up. Go ahead and finalize it by clicking save in the upper right corner.
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#This brings us to the overview page. This shows a vast amount of information about this individual piston.
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All that is left to do now is test your piston by walking past your motion sensor. Your light should turn on to 100% brightness. However due to the simplicity of this example there is no control to turn it off. But this was just a simple overview of creating a piston. Hope this helps get you started!

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