Micasaverde @ CES 2013 (NEW VERA'S!)

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Micasaverde seems to be at the CES 2013 (South Hall 1, Booth 20800, Z-Wave Alliance Pavilion). What I found so far:

There are new vera’s available:

Translation: http://translate.google.ch/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.domadoo.fr%2Findex.php%2Fmnews%2F103-ces-2013%2F1113-micasaverde-presente-ses-nouvelles-veras&act=url

They also seem to have a new approach on software bundles:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/1/prweb10289155.htm

Another very interessting link, but not micasaverde specific:
http://www.z-wavealliance.org/ces-2013

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Thanks for sharing this chixxi

Interesting to have multiple options, with different specs. Pricing will be interesting…

I also like that they mention MiOS TV, I’m very curious to see and play with that.

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The Vera Pro looks pretty nice in specs. Looking forward to pricing.

  • Garrett
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Exciting news, hoping to see it soon on the official website.
Hoping it will bring more features and more firmware releases for all Vera products.

Thanks for the share,

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Yeah! Let’s See if there is ui6!

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Yeah! Let's See if there is ui6!

Let them finish UI5 before :wink:

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Seems like the provisional spec of the Vera Pro is intended to compete with the Fibaro HC2…

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[quote=“Massalia, post:6, topic:173891”]

Yeah! Let’s See if there is ui6!

Let them finish UI5 before ;)[/quote]

+1. Exciting news. I hope this focus on fixing bugs and adding functionality rather than developing a new UI.

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Great news! I wonder why they have not had any press release on this. I guess the writer of the blog post is the same Cedric as the cedriclocqueneux on the forum.
He just posted a new Fibaro z-wave socket module and it’s small!! [url=http://blog.domadoo.fr/index.php/mnews/103-ces-2013/1115-fibaro-presente-le-module-prise-le-plus-petit-du-monde]http://blog.domadoo.fr/index.php/mnews/103-ces-2013/1115-fibaro-presente-le-module-prise-le-plus-petit-du-monde[/url]

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Surprise, surprise. I bet UI6 will come with Vera Pro and will not be “ported” to any of the previous versions. It will light up the screen of your PC like Christmas in Vegas. It will have animations of French maids doing things in your house which Vera can’t do. It will sing and dance (well actually it will only sing if you use tools developed by other people :/) and offer to make you pancakes. It won’t actually make those pancakes though. I have quite a few devices, both physical and virtual, and I have scenes running very, very often and Vera 2 is keeping up. Maybe I should scrap my current DD-WRT router and my UBNT AP’s in favor of this new Vera Pro? Maybe also scrap my Dell switches? I don’t really need 48 ports. The 4 (or however many) on the Vera Pro will work fine.

I have said this before and I will say it one more time and one more time only (surely to the relief of the community). MCV is trying to make candy. If one needs to buy new hardware every year or two in order to have functionality the product is an addiction, and not making life easier. The competition has MUCH more power and functionality, a much more established community, is mostly hardware agnostic and costs less… because you only have to upgrade every decade or so.

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Prices are not yet known, but should be available later this summer for Vera Plus and the end of the year for Vera Pro. Long wait for the Pro

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[quote=“capjay, post:8, topic:173891”][quote=“Massalia, post:6, topic:173891”]

Yeah! Let’s See if there is ui6!

Let them finish UI5 before ;)[/quote]

+1. Exciting news. I hope this focus on fixing bugs and adding functionality rather than developing a new UI.[/quote]

Wouldn’t hold my breath, they still haven’t finished fixing the bugs and adding functionality to UI4 yet.

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Wouldn't hold my breath, they still haven't finished fixing the bugs and adding functionality to UI4 yet.

I think they are done with UI4.

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Just curious but what competition are you referring to? I haven’t investigated alternatives since I originally settled on a Vera around 2 years ago

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HomeSeer

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We’re also starting to see a new raft of existing, mature (and stable) products being “extended” to support Z-Wave. Things like Indigo (Beta of version 6, Mac) support Z-Wave now:
Indigo Domotics - Advanced Mac-based Smart Home Hub

Indigo has been around for a long time in the Insteon/X10 world, and has all the normal stuff you’d expect within the product (plugin model, graphical scene editor).

The existing functionality looks quite mature, so it’ll be interesting to see if they can evolve the Z-Wave side.

I’m looking forward to these folks “upping the bar” on what’s needed in HA.

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Homeseer3 is due for beta release this month also which will support Linux as well.

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Hm. Friend of mine switched from HomeSeer to Vera, mostly for lack of support for certain devices. The grass is always greener… :slight_smile:

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And of course, Fibaro just hit the US also…
Fibaro home automation system comes to the US, company releases smart power strip (video) | Engadget

… although there appear to be both +ve and -ve comments about their controllers. IIRC they were MiOS at one point and they dumped it for a custom implementation.

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I also switched from Homeseer Pro to Vera but I would always state their support was excellent.