Can z-seer work as a z-wave diagnostic tool for a vera z-wave network?

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I presently have a Vera 1 with a z-stick dongle. I’m wondering whether if I move the z-stick to a PC and run z-seer, it will see the same network as Vera? Or, maybe there is some other way to do it? Has anyone tried? ???

I’m not sure whether or not I would actually get more info from z-seer than from running Vera’s heal command, but it looks intriguing…

Here’s a youtube that shows the z-seer interface:

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I would say this is very much Homeseer related, and just moving the dongle from your Vera 1 to a PC is not going to achieve very much as Vera runs as a standalone controller (whereas Homeseer is PC based)

You do however raise an interesting point/idea - as it would be nice to have a visual interface to show you how all the nodes on your Vera Network are interconnected and functioning. The information is already there (under neighbours and settings) so it would be pretty cool to see all that interaction (and test polls/configs) more graphically represented. (Maybe we will see it in Vera 3.x :slight_smile: )

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You should have no problems with doing that at all as long as the driver are install on the computer you intended to this with. The usb dongle is independent of either your Vera or Homeseer as a product and as you add this as a controller within Vera and the same can be done in Homeseer and thus you can use the dongle with either product.

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Awesome. I just did it. Yes, it works. I love it. Easy as pie. :smiley:

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Thanks Brientim

For some reason, I read @neverdie’s request as being about moving the dongle over to a PC and for that to also take across details of the zwave network (devices and routing) stored within Vera allowing him to then do some analysis via z-seer. I missed the point about the dongle acting as a standalone antenea/controller, and as such portable…

:wink: good job Brientim was here…

@neverdie - Glad you got the information you needed

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The z-wave devices are registered on the dongle albeit internal or an external as in this case (which when plugged into another controller they will be available).

Vera interacts with the dongle in the same way as Homeseer does. Of course with an internal z-wave dongle the option to move it does not exist.