Hi @ll, last days I migrated my last zwave device from Vera to zwave js in homeassistant. Out of 150 devices 1 did not go well initially but reinterviewing did it directly. Most work was to find the ex and inclusion procedure, 3 times, click, clack, whatever. I must admit that Vera is Lighting fast!!!!! With only 3 devices left, those were my under the floor switches I had to do last.

Now I am totally gone from Vera, altui, luup, etc. There's nothing more left for me on this forum. And since it was one of my "routine sites" reading I will save a few minutes a day skipping it.

I thank you all for all the kind help, warm words and laughter about the ezlo flop :-).

I hooe you all will be safe and healthy and whish you all the best!

I will stay on the homeassistant forum.

Goodbye!

@therealdb they do have an "alpha" however! It's Melih sitting on a rock, beating the drum and banging on his chest like a real alpha monkey while banning people.

Welcome! I have just read that topic .

Wow that guy Melih runs a company, well a "thing" trying to push to existing customers of Vera but he is not succeeding in any way .

Sorry but if it werent to serious and pathetic it would be very funny .

I keep stressing my argument.

Melih, monkey, I am so glad you took over the company! If you had not I would not know what would be out there more and I would still be sticked to a retired product. Thanks Melih!

Took the bit and bought it...

Stick plus license... will be here lots of time next week :-)...

Z-Wave. Me USB stick incl. Z-Way Controller software : Amazon.nl: Electronics & Photo

Just wanted to point out and start the topic of the following:

We are working on a project that will allow to use Z-Way library as the core of Z-Wave in Home Assistant. First releases will be around June/July I believe

Additionally there are ways to support Z-Way from HAss via HTTP requests. This is a community project and we have no deep knowledge about it.

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Apr 19, 2020

Official Z-way integration request

Why would that make you reluctant? It doesn’t seem to be any different from any other local startup supporting funds in other countries.

So, after more than 10 years and 4 Vera's, my vera forum account is suspended.

I think the monkey of the company, called melih is not man enough te have any critic. In the topic about the "great to come app" I responded to the topic (not off topic!) that a subscription can also be seen (financially) as buying a box, run it for 2 years and come to market with a better one (in better wordings).
That means that if you as a company hast a box of 50USD cost, sell it at 250USD would give him a monthly subscription of 200/24=8.33 USD... Users that would last 5 years would pay a monthly of 3.33USD.

But... the monkey on the rock has bolded his fists and said: ban him! He just can't take any criticism.

To be honest! I am not even sad! It was a very rough journey with Vera. The journey stopped when Ezlo and the monkey took over the name.

After that it quickly went downhill...

Goodluck all! (except the monkey).

Edit:
The topic:
https://community.getvera.com/t/mios-application-early-beta-enrollment/214826/89

The post:
The point you are missing is:

If the hardware would “cost” around 50USD, and you sold it for 250USD, an average life span of 5 years would mean 200/(5×12)=3.33USD per month. Thats how Vera used to do it.

Then release a faster/better “beast” every 2 years gives you 200/(2×12)=8.33USD per month. That’s how vera used to do it.

And that’s how I did it for around 8 years and 4 veras with them untill you bought the company.

This is just a matter of how you look at it and explain it.

I dont frikking care how you do the maths, I only liked a working product and a close user community (like it was).

Now all I see on this forum is a lot of “we are going to” and “we are working on”, “keep them coming guys”. But the reason for ever considering to buy a new vera every 2 years is gone…

No clear migration path, no clear compatibility path and no clear integration path…

That’s why I started to look for alternatives…

Nevermind, I started the exclude include journey... almost gone from Vera... I must admit, I'm going to miss her. I whish including was as fast and stable as excluding

Maybe you know, maybe you don't. I use this explore to view real time events and topic updates on my broker:

MQTT Explorer

Very handy to discover topics, see updates etc.

Tell me more about the microwave sensor

I have moved to homeassistant and OZW. Works very well! And recently I started with esphome via homeassistant. Configure and compile firmware, upload it to an esp and manage it further from homeassistant (OTA!).

This way I have now created a hall flow meter for 9 euro :-). And a 8v port relay board for 13 euro. Rocksolid... downside is my wifi has to be always on... but that counts for a lot of things...

Since I have been banned I did not even look back :-).

And to be honest I am so happy with this Vera situation else I would not ever have discovered what's out there!

Wonder why ezlo, the biggest, the best, is not a sponsor or attender

@therealdb using esphome and in my case together with homeassistant make mqtt hassle unneeded. It automatically includes the homeassistant api. If the esphome device is part of the same subnet it is auto discovered and entities are auto populated in hass. If not in same subnet need to manually add an esphome integration per device (ip address). Other thing you need to take care of then it is "pinging" devices instead of mdns (all in manual but good to know) for "online status". I have in 1 week around 15 wifi D1 minis as sensors, nextion displays (touchscreen "wallmote quad" but cheaper and better), 4 and 8 relay boards for sprinkler, etc etc. So easy!

Omg this is really unbelievable!

https://community.getvera.com/t/clarification-of-forum-contributors-being-banned

I read rigpapa is also active with homeassistant.
Is rigpapa also active on this forum? What name? Anyone knows his name on homeassistant?

I justed wanted to say, go rigpapa!

HA bridge is really great! It works fast and stable. One other big advantage is that it is capable of doing mapping of "multiple names to 1 device"... alexa turn on cast, did you mean guest? No cast, did you mean cause? No! I have now multiple line for 1 device, never an issue...

As you say...

Happy wife more automations <--> more automations happy wifE.

I must says, having homeassistant solely with 80 devices in zwavejs connected to an aeotec gen5+ has been rocksolid for very long! I even started with the former openzwave (beta) integration in homeassistant and had to rename all entities 1 time after migrating. Since then rocksolid and combined with node red a pleasure to automate...

@toggledbits you are awesome! Never used reactor but I have seen your involvement and communication and I just wanted to have it said to you.

@catmanv2 hence I have a separate vlan/sybnet for "tunneling" and outbound session things (mostly IOT). And specific ports forwarded to a nas (compared to a vpc but locally managed)

Device - control panel - configuration - controller