Vera or not vera?
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@dest I think you have more important things than this.
Please let me know if you have any progress on the matter.
Thanks in advance.
K@krisztianszabo I'm still working a lot for the next couples of days, after, I will have some spare time and will check that
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I am, of course, biased...
You can progress in easy steps, and see how things improve. You will need another computer (Raspberry Pi of any sort is not a bad choice.)
- install openLuup on RPi
- link openLuup to Vera
- move any plugins to openLuup (really helps reliability)
- move scenes to openLuup (ditto)
These are easy steps for which there is much help available. If this is not reliable enough for you then
- buy a UZB stick with ZWave licence, and software (runs on RPi)
- clone your Vera ZWave network to it
- plug in UZB to RPi
- throw away Vera
Then you are in a hugely reliable, yet still familiar, home automation environment.
@akbooer said in Vera or not vera?:
I am, of course, biased...
You can progress in easy steps, and see how things improve. You will need another computer (Raspberry Pi of any sort is not a bad choice.)
- install openLuup on RPi
- link openLuup to Vera
- move any plugins to openLuup (really helps reliability)
- move scenes to openLuup (ditto)
These are easy steps for which there is much help available. If this is not reliable enough for you then
- buy a UZB stick with ZWave licence, and software (runs on RPi)
- clone your Vera ZWave network to it
- plug in UZB to RPi
- throw away Vera
Then you are in a hugely reliable, yet still familiar, home automation environment.
Thinking about replacing my 3 veras. Would it be possible to clone them to separate zway devices and continue with openluup/vera bridges?
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@akbooer said in Vera or not vera?:
I am, of course, biased...
You can progress in easy steps, and see how things improve. You will need another computer (Raspberry Pi of any sort is not a bad choice.)
- install openLuup on RPi
- link openLuup to Vera
- move any plugins to openLuup (really helps reliability)
- move scenes to openLuup (ditto)
These are easy steps for which there is much help available. If this is not reliable enough for you then
- buy a UZB stick with ZWave licence, and software (runs on RPi)
- clone your Vera ZWave network to it
- plug in UZB to RPi
- throw away Vera
Then you are in a hugely reliable, yet still familiar, home automation environment.
Thinking about replacing my 3 veras. Would it be possible to clone them to separate zway devices and continue with openluup/vera bridges?
Thinking about replacing my 3 veras. Would it be possible to clone them to separate zway devices and continue with openluup/vera bridges?
Yes. Not using vera bridges but z-way bridges. And also unless they are physically non co-located mesh, or the number of devices exceed the capacity of one mesh (>~200 nodes) you probably are better off making them all one single mesh. z-way doesn't have the non-sensical overhead on the zwave network and can handle the full z-wave network mesh capacity. Having multiple z-wave networks at the same location really makes no sense since they will be interfering with one another causing latencies and dropped packets since they all share air time on the same 2 frequency channels.
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They are too far apart in my case but thanks for the heads up rafale. Advantage - I can test on the small mesh and see how it goes! : )