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The new hardware still isn't needed/necessary for normal uses though - so no one needs to panic/feel obsoleted now that there is slightly newer hardware. Should have remembered that the other day.
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There were already press releases on the new hardware that allows for the full power zwave lr.
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I only bring up lora in this conversation because the protocol and modulation are similar.ĮDIT: I forgot. even the ones that are a few blocks away.
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Going above 13 dbm is only really required for extremely long range applications (1 mile+, or shorter with a lot of interference I suppose).įor example my lora devices can go that high on power, but none of them actually do or need to. EDIT: The z-wave stick I was talking about is the Aeotec Z-Stick. You may also want to join r/homeassistant.
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I just used a 8 hub from Amazon and it works fine. Works with Windows / Mac / Linux / Raspberry Pi 4 (2020 upgrade) to create a zwave hub for control of Z-Wave plus and Zwave devices, Tiny but powerful. There is an incompatibility that makes the two lose connection over time. That's not necessarily a bad thing for the average use case. If you are using an aeon labs z-wave stick, you’ll need to put usb hub in between the stick and the Pi4. So I would have guessed that Hubitat was capped at the 13 dbm. But silabs did make new phy to support the higher output. This is an important first step in understanding the protocol.I haven't looked at it in detail. through some calculations we figured out the checksum algorithm that z-wave uses. This is because the LRC calculation z-wave uses starts with a starter value, which is “FF” or 1111 1111. We expected ‘FE’ (last byte in our command). hmm, not quite the LRC value we’d expected. The result in each position is 1 if the two bits are different, and 0 if they are the same. A bitwise exclusive or takes two bit patterns of equal length and performs the logical XOR operation on each pair of corresponding bits. A LRC is computed by XOR all the byte values of the packet together. In most documents they referred to the checksum as a CRC checksum, I actually think it’s an LRC (Longitudinal Redundancy Check). Let’s translate these bytes to bits (a lot of people still seem to have trouble to distinct between the two of them):įrom some z-wave documentation publicly available, I figured out that the checksum is the last byte of the command. By being able to remotely include/remove Z-Wave devices, this greatly simplifies Z-Wave network installation. Thats your simple entry into the world of smart home: Plug the Z-Stick by Aeotec (Aeon Labs) into your PC, Notebook, Barebone, Raspberry Pi etc. So let’s have a look at the basics, these are the 5 bytes that get send to the controller: #01#03#00#02#FE Aeon Labs Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5 is a self-powered Z-Wave USB adapter with remote network creation capabilities (independent from external power and host microprocessor). This article will focus just on the sending command (my first starting point with python and z-wave)
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The yellow text is the command that get’s transmitted from the PC to the controller.
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That opens up your home automation software to Raspberry's new architecture, including 8GB of RAM and an ARM v8 1.5GHz CPU. As it was built upon an older Z-Wave stack, the non-plus model of Z-Stick Gen5 isn't compatible with Raspberry 4. Here’s a log of the Aeon-Labs stick initializing: New Pi from Raspberry, new Z-Stick from Aeotec.
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I ordered an Aeon-Labs Z-stick (series 2) and a Duwi dimmer module to start with.Īfter playing around a bit with a demo Homeseer license to test whether the stick and module worked (setup was really easy), I quickly switched over to my ‘bits and bytes view’. I started playing around with my new z-wave kit.