Migration from VeraPlus to Aeotec Gen5
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A few suggestions since it appears that you are in the US:
This is the most generic reference design stick. It is actually also the exact same stick homeseer and many other companies resell under their label.
ACC-UZB3-U-STA | DigiKey Electronics
Order today, ships today. ACC-UZB3-U-STA – Z-Wave - Transceiver; Z-Wave 908MHz Evaluation Board from Silicon Labs. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.
The is the zwave.me uzb which is widely used on Home assistant and opens the door to using z-way as well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Z-Wave-ME-UZB-Z-Wave-USB-Stick-US-Version-Free-shipping/371973342579?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 -
I have one too. It is stuck with zwave SDK 4.5. It will never support S2 inclusion for example and it is missing support for some newer devices. It is missing a lot of bug fixes silab has released over the past few years. My generic sticks and the uzb are running 6.82.01...
@rafale77 hmz, according to them gen5 will support S2
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And here
Z-Stick Gen5 and security (S0 and S2 Framework)
Z-Stick Gen5 ZW090 is a highly versatile and portable device used as an interface for a third party software to be used and connected with Z-Stick Gen5. For this article we will discuss a little bit about what is needed to be done to use Z-Stick ...
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Maybe one of these days when others have supported it for years. It's not the point. This is just a symptom, it's a proprietary firmware to accomodate the battery which is not very useful. You pay more and get a less useful stick. I have had it for years and you have to wait for aeotec to release a firmware which may or may not happen. Why bother? They have not released an update for all the years I have had mine when silabs is releasing improvements and bug fixes every couple of months. If you were not happy with vera's firmware release rate, you will be sorely disappointed with aeotec's Z-stick. And no it doesn't work. The current firmware doesn't support S2, it is much too old. The documentation is wrong. I tried. It mentions you need a controller which supports it which none does except for homeseer and z-way which don't support this stick. It was a very popular stick back at the beginning of openzwave when it was a very limited controller but I think openzwave has outgrown the firmware on this stick now.
Edit: I see a firmware update for another product called the z-stick S2. None for the Gen5 which I know for fact cannot support S2.
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A few suggestions since it appears that you are in the US:
This is the most generic reference design stick. It is actually also the exact same stick homeseer and many other companies resell under their label.
Order today, ships today. ACC-UZB3-U-STA – Z-Wave - Transceiver; Z-Wave 908MHz Evaluation Board from Silicon Labs. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.
The is the zwave.me uzb which is widely used on Home assistant and opens the door to using z-way as well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Z-Wave-ME-UZB-Z-Wave-USB-Stick-US-Version-Free-shipping/371973342579?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649@rafale77 said in Migration from VeraPlus to Aeotec Gen5:
A few suggestions since it appears that you are in the US:
This is the most generic reference design stick. It is actually also the exact same stick homeseer and many other companies resell under their label.
Order today, ships today. ACC-UZB3-U-STA – Z-Wave - Transceiver; Z-Wave 908MHz Evaluation Board from Silicon Labs. Pricing and Availability on millions of electronic components from Digi-Key Electronics.
The is the zwave.me uzb which is widely used on Home assistant and opens the door to using z-way as well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Z-Wave-ME-UZB-Z-Wave-USB-Stick-US-Version-Free-shipping/371973342579?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649In regards to the Z-wave.me stick... does that also accept the SL SDK FW upgrades directly or are you going dealing with their FW as well.
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I receive the Z-Wave.Me stick from Amazon. I installed into Rpi4b and wrote the z-way SW onto a spare SD card. Z-Way doesn't show the USB stick as being recognized.
I was able to get the following information from the board:
Device ready in:3.01858210564 seconds FULL INFO Openning port .............................. OK SERIAL INFO VERSION: 05 1B VENDOR: 01 15 ZME_CAPABILITIES UID: 25 95 B6 A0 D7 34 FA 69 67 EB BA 75 3F 4B C6 8B VENDOR: 00 00 NODES: FF FLAGS: 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FIRMWARE CRC BOOT: BB BB FW: 35 7A MISC FREQ: US NVR Content -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prog/erase lock : FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF, Read back lock: FF Rev 01, Cal FF, TXCal 16 12, SAW FF FF FF FF, Pin FF, CRC B3 B5 NMV: CS 15, TYPE 02, SIZE 01 00, PSIZE 01 00 (EEPROM M25PE20) USB: VID FF FF, PID FF FF, UUID FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FACTORY ID: WEEK 255, YEAR 255, CHIP FF FF, SER FF FF, WS 255, HWREV: FF FF, CRC8 FFDoes this look right?
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