free_electron
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- Jul 12, 2014
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well, i got my hub today. not impressed... Zwave support is a catastrophy. i cannot get past the connect screen for zwave. it is always stuck in step 4.
here are the problems
- does not suport zwave naming. zwave devices from a certain firmware up support storing names. apparently this hub cannot retrieve them.
- does not support pairing or paired elements ( i have wall switches that have no local actuator but control a remote actuator. these are 'paired' elements . i'm not talking scene controllers ! i am talking a z-wave switch that actually directly controls another z-wave element) this doesn't work
- teach-in from existing controllers doesn't work . i tried from a Cooper Aspire Rf and from a Honewell 5200 alarm system with z-wave. doesn't work.
i had a vera with similar problems. only homeseer could handle this correctly (paired devices)
so far i have not found a single z-wave controller that works in an easy way. include all devices , tell it what control talks directly to what alese , and make a graphical user interface for it. they are all kludges.
here are the problems
- does not suport zwave naming. zwave devices from a certain firmware up support storing names. apparently this hub cannot retrieve them.
- does not support pairing or paired elements ( i have wall switches that have no local actuator but control a remote actuator. these are 'paired' elements . i'm not talking scene controllers ! i am talking a z-wave switch that actually directly controls another z-wave element) this doesn't work
- teach-in from existing controllers doesn't work . i tried from a Cooper Aspire Rf and from a Honewell 5200 alarm system with z-wave. doesn't work.
i had a vera with similar problems. only homeseer could handle this correctly (paired devices)
so far i have not found a single z-wave controller that works in an easy way. include all devices , tell it what control talks directly to what alese , and make a graphical user interface for it. they are all kludges.