Hello Guys
I have read about bridging multiple veras
I have a situation where the house is very HUGE and i dont want to spread z-wave devices all the places
I have like spots where to deploy Z-wave (like 5 places)
If i buy 5 veras lite and connect them to the same network (Wi-Fi network based on Access Points and Repeaters)
Am I be able to bridge them?
What is the steps to include devices? Only the Primary vera can include? Since the veras are far apart can i add using secondary veras?
I will use one vera to control the other veras ? right?
Thank you in advanced
Yes, this should work just fine.
I have three connected in such a way.
Each Vera has its own Z-Wave network, so ‘local’ devices are attached to each one as usual.
The bridging process is not really a master/slave arrangement, but more of a peer-to-peer, however each bridging process is one way. You can bridge each one to all the others, but, in fact, I’ve chosen to bridge one-way to a single ‘master’ which then can see and control all the devices on both other machines. Whereas the ‘slave’ machines can only see their own devices.
Be aware that there are some features of bridged Veras which might make housekeeping a bit harder, but actually it all works very well once up and running in my experience. Just be sure to name devices uniquely so it’s obvious which they are. You will have to assign to rooms on each machine (both ‘master’ and ‘slave’) separately.
A search of the forum will highlight experiences of others.
Good luck.
[quote=“akbooer, post:2, topic:175026”]Yes, this should work just fine.
I have three connected in such a way.
Each Vera has its own Z-Wave network, so ‘local’ devices are attached to each one as usual.
The bridging process is not really a master/slave arrangement, but more of a peer-to-peer, however each bridging process is one way. You can bridge each one to all the others, but, in fact, I’ve chosen to bridge one-way to a single ‘master’ which then can see and control all the devices on both other machines. Whereas the ‘slave’ machines can only see their own devices.
Be aware that there are some features of bridged Veras which might make housekeeping a bit harder, but actually it all works very well once up and running in my experience. Just be sure to name devices uniquely so it’s obvious which they are. You will have to assign to rooms on each machine (both ‘master’ and ‘slave’) separately.
A search of the forum will highlight experiences of others.
Good luck.[/quote]
Hi –
I have been able to successfully bridge a vera 2 to a vera 3 BUT I don’t see any of the vera 2 devices on the vera 3. However I do see 4 new devices:
LANDevice:1
WANConnectionDevice:1
WANDevice:1
Plus the Name of the Vera
What am I supposed to do from here? I was hoping to see the devices on the Vera 2 displayed on the vera 3. Thanks in advance for any help.
Don
What am I supposed to do from here? I was hoping to see the devices on the Vera 2 displayed on the vera 3. Thanks in advance for any help.
Yes, that’s rather what I would hope too. I assume all your Veras are running the SAME firmware version? You should see one “bridged” Vera device and all its devices (actually as children of the former.)
[quote=“akbooer, post:4, topic:175026”]
What am I supposed to do from here? I was hoping to see the devices on the Vera 2 displayed on the vera 3. Thanks in advance for any help.
Yes, that’s rather what I would hope too. I assume all your Veras are running the SAME firmware version? You should see one “bridged” Vera device and all its devices (actually as children of the former.)[/quote]
Hi –
Both veras are running the 1.5.622.
I also would have expected to see the children devices but didn’t. Not sure what these other devices are.
Don
That’s probably worth a call to MCV support, then.
Although you might just try deleting the Vera linked device and retrying.
[quote=“akbooer, post:6, topic:175026”]That’s probably worth a call to MCV support, then.
Although you might just try deleting the Vera linked device and retrying.[/quote]
Hi –
Good ideas but I wasn’t sure how to do that. Do I just delete all of the four devices that were created through the UI?
Don
Try that way first, but they may come back after a restart. Second option is to use a Luup HTTP request. See [url=http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Requests#device]http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Requests#device[/url]
Hi akbooer
Easily deleted the devices and added them back in. Same result, no sign of a z-wave device but had:
However I do see 4 new devices:
LANDevice:1
WANConnectionDevice:1
WANDevice:1
Plus the Name of the Vera
So much for trying the bridge the two units.
Don
Definitely time to call MCV support.