Supporting the ACT Solutions ZCU201 USB Z-wave Interface

[coley]

http://www.elekhomica.nl/product_info.php?cPath=91&products_id=707

br hari

Also found it here
http://www.smarthus.info/product_info.php?cPath=1_46_115&products_id=2281

-Coley.

[hari]

Hi Guys,

some news from the Z-Wave front: A danish company (seluxit.com) produces the ViaSENS Homecontroller. It's a european version (868MHz) usb device. Daniel Lux from Seluxit provides me with a test sample. It should be accessible via /dev/ttyACM0 (cdc-acm module).
They also are thinking about some encapsulation library for linux for the z-wave sdk (like the windows zwave.dll) and would appreciate any feedback or feature wishes.
totallymaxed: maybe you can lend me a few Z-wave components to test the interface for some days?

best regards,
Hari

[totallymaxed]

Hi Guys,

some news from the Z-Wave front: A danish company (seluxit.com) produces the ViaSENS Homecontroller. It's a european version (868MHz) usb device. Daniel Lux from Seluxit provides me with a test sample. It should be accessible via /dev/ttyACM0 (cdc-acm module).
They also are thinking about some encapsulation library for linux for the z-wave sdk (like the windows zwave.dll) and would appreciate any feedback or feature wishes.
totallymaxed: maybe you can lend me a few Z-wave components to test the interface for some days?

best regards,
Hari

Hi Hari,

The only product that i can see on there site is the http://seluxit.com/VS_Controllers.html which is a Z-wave connected energy meter. This is interesting in its own right for sure but it cannot be connected to z-wave switches but only to Seluxit's own z-wave remote metering units. Is this unit the one you refer to in your post above?

It really does not make much sense to loan z-wave hardware as the cost of shipping it to you and back again is more than the value of the units (in most cases).

Andrew

[hari]

The only product that i can see on there site is the http://seluxit.com/VS_Controllers.html which is a Z-wave connected energy meter. This is interesting in its own right for sure but it cannot be connected to z-wave switches but only to Seluxit's own z-wave remote metering units. Is this unit the one you refer to in your post above?

No, you have to scroll down on the page. It's the viaSENS Homecontroller.

EDIT: they also have a nice Z-Wave multifunction sensor (http://www.seluxit.com/Multisensor.html) and sell the danfoss RA-plus, too.

best regards,
Hari

[coley]

ZCU201 and ZDW232 ordered for my experiments, from http://www.elekhomica.nl/
noticed all plug in modules were eu type plugs
have to go elsewhere for UK/Ireland 3pin plugin modules, which is a pain as shipping adds up!!

-Coley.

[Domodude]

Hi everyone,

I also noticed that there is a new unit ZCS201 available, which is direct RS232 (I think)  . Does anyone actually own one of these, or did experiments with it?

Cheers,

Mark

[hari]

Hi everyone,

I also noticed that there is a new unit ZCS201 available, which is direct RS232 (I think)  . Does anyone actually own one of these, or did experiments with it?

Cheers,

Mark

i don't have found a shop with that on stock,

best regards,
Hari

[totallymaxed]

Hi everyone,

I also noticed that there is a new unit ZCS201 available, which is direct RS232 (I think)  . Does anyone actually own one of these, or did experiments with it?

Cheers,

Mark

We have ordered some of those for testing here... will report back once we have them ;-)

[totallymaxed]

The only product that i can see on there site is the http://seluxit.com/VS_Controllers.html which is a Z-wave connected energy meter. This is interesting in its own right for sure but it cannot be connected to z-wave switches but only to Seluxit's own z-wave remote metering units. Is this unit the one you refer to in your post above?

No, you have to scroll down on the page. It's the viaSENS Homecontroller.

EDIT: they also have a nice Z-Wave multifunction sensor (http://www.seluxit.com/Multisensor.html) and sell the danfoss RA-plus, too.

best regards,
Hari

Got it... didn't scroll far enough!

Yes the multi-sensor looks very interesting indeed. Are they shipping those?

[hari]

No, you have to scroll down on the page. It's the viaSENS Homecontroller.

Got it... didn't scroll far enough!

Yes the multi-sensor looks very interesting indeed. Are they shipping those?

was announced for Dec. 2007. I hope to get a test sample from Mr. Lux after having the Homecontroller working.
I will ask him for availability.

best regards,
Hari

[totallymaxed]

No, you have to scroll down on the page. It's the viaSENS Homecontroller.

Got it... didn't scroll far enough!

Yes the multi-sensor looks very interesting indeed. Are they shipping those?

was announced for Dec. 2007. I hope to get a test sample from Mr. Lux after having the Homecontroller working.
I will ask him for availability.

best regards,
Hari

ok understood.

Do you have the HomeController yet? If yes have you looked into its usb interface/chipset for driver development etc?

[hari]

ok understood.

Do you have the HomeController yet? If yes have you looked into its usb interface/chipset for driver development etc?

the home controller came today. I can verify that the device is available as /dev/ttyACM0 on LMCE (0704). For now i tricked lmce into using the HomeController by adding the ZWave device manually and assigning the com port (UpdateAvailableSerialports.sh needs a tweak for that to recognize the device file). Further research showed that we probably only have to add the usb device id to the device template in the database. I can engage "learn mode" for device download from a primary controller without errors.

More results to come (hari needs more hardware )

EDIT: the logs with startup and output after sending:
/usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend localhost 0 99 1 757 9 ""

Code:

dcerouter_48407:/var/log/pluto# /usr/pluto/bin/ZWave -d 99
ZWave, v.2.0.0.44.0709022200
Visit www.plutohome.com for source code and license information

05      01/14/08 20:17:15.180           Creating child 100 <0xb79a96d0>
05      01/14/08 20:17:15.180           Note: Device manager has attached a device of type 1820 that this has no custom event handler for.  It will not fire events. <0xb79a96d0>
05      01/14/08 20:17:15.180           Note: Device manager has attached a device of type 1820 that this has no custom handler for.  This is normal for IR. <0xb79a96d0>
05      01/14/08 20:17:29.672           ZWave::ReportChildDevices 2.xx API ! <0xb49a2b90>
05      01/14/08 20:19:30.004           -------------------------- Job Timeout _________ <0xb69a6b90>

best regards,
Hari

[hari]

Yes the multi-sensor looks very interesting indeed. Are they shipping those?

the sensor will be released in about 6 to 8 weeks.

best regards,
Hari

[totallymaxed]

ok understood.

Do you have the HomeController yet? If yes have you looked into its usb interface/chipset for driver development etc?

the home controller came today. I can verify that the device is available as /dev/ttyACM0 on LMCE (0704). For now i tricked lmce into using the HomeController by adding the ZWave device manually and assigning the com port (UpdateAvailableSerialports.sh needs a tweak for that to recognize the device file). Further research showed that we probably only have to add the usb device id to the device template in the database. I can engage "learn mode" for device download from a primary controller without errors.

More results to come (hari needs more hardware )

EDIT: the logs with startup and output after sending:
/usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend localhost 0 99 1 757 9 ""

Code:

dcerouter_48407:/var/log/pluto# /usr/pluto/bin/ZWave -d 99
ZWave, v.2.0.0.44.0709022200
Visit www.plutohome.com for source code and license information

05      01/14/08 20:17:15.180           Creating child 100 <0xb79a96d0>
05      01/14/08 20:17:15.180           Note: Device manager has attached a device of type 1820 that this has no custom event handler for.  It will not fire events. <0xb79a96d0>
05      01/14/08 20:17:15.180           Note: Device manager has attached a device of type 1820 that this has no custom handler for.  This is normal for IR. <0xb79a96d0>
05      01/14/08 20:17:29.672           ZWave::ReportChildDevices 2.xx API ! <0xb49a2b90>
05      01/14/08 20:19:30.004           -------------------------- Job Timeout _________ <0xb69a6b90>

best regards,
Hari

Hey thats great Hari... give us another update tomorrow ;-)

[Domodude]

I also noticed that there is a new unit ZCS201 available, which is direct RS232 (I think)  . Does anyone actually own one of these, or did experiments with it?

We have ordered some of those for testing here... will report back once we have them ;-)

Of course, I could not wait on that 
My ZCS201 should come in tomorrow, I'll check it out and report on the results. Supposedly it really does have a serial connector, so we'll see what happens. A previous thread (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=2766.msg13509#msg13509) mentioned the ZCS201, but refers to the USB connector! Hmmm... I am hoping that was a typo! 

Mark