Just found this. https://z-command.intulon.com/
Looks interesting enough. Thoughts?
Looking at the hardware, the controller looks like it is a Raspberry Pi with a 3D printed case. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it does suggest that this is not custom built or mass produced hardware.
The website says that Z-Wave locks are not supported, “yet”. This tells me that he(one guy developing/selling this) is using the openZ-Wave library. While promising at its inception, openZ-wave has failed to make significant advances in reimplementing the Sigma Z-Wave stack, which means that there will probably always be lacking Z-Wave hardware support. There is no current Z-Wave G5 support.
What about other hardware? It doesn’t seem like there is an easy path to controlling WiFi devices like thermostats, or ZigBee, or anything besides Z-Wave. Yes, there is an API but it’s… primitive.
It seems to have a basic interface with an OK appearance, but we’ve discovered that a good looking web GUI doesn’t mean a good HA platform. See UI7.
Cursory glance and it looks great, deeper look and it seems like they have some work to do:
- They don’t support Locks (yet)
- Their “rules” are boolean ANDs only. While that’s great, I would like to throw some ORs in there. That said, I think this is actually a step above the Vera.
- Seems to be limited to z-wave devices (no plugins)
The price is a bit higher than the veraEdge ($199, so $50 more), but if it’s just “better”, then so be it. Being a raspberry Pi2, it is likely fasteer than the Vera. I don’t like that there are no plugins. So now I have to depend on their Restful API and have another device handle the logic between them (I have z-wave and insteon with philips hues mixed in).
just My$.02. If we weren’t expecting a baby and a year off of maternity leave for my wife soon, I would probably pick one up to play with.
This just back to me about the plugin question.
bucko, on 12 Mar 2015 - 16:19, said:
What about plugin developement? Can it run 3rd party plugins?
[b]Better than 3rd party plugins, it has a REST API that you can use with almost any programming language you’re comfortable with. For example, you enumerate devices by simply calling http://[your z-command IP address]/api/devices/{filter?}
{filter?} is an optional string that lets you limit the returned objects by device type, location and name.
The list of API’s is here:
https://z-command.in…ser-manual/api/
We will be creating blog posts about how to create 3rd party applications on different platforms over the next few weeks.[/b]
[quote=“bucko, post:4, topic:186406”]This just back to me about the plugin question.
bucko, on 12 Mar 2015 - 16:19, said:
What about plugin developement? Can it run 3rd party plugins?
[b]Better than 3rd party plugins, it has a REST API that you can use with almost any programming language you’re comfortable with. For example, you enumerate devices by simply calling http://[your z-command IP address]/api/devices/{filter?}
{filter?} is an optional string that lets you limit the returned objects by device type, location and name.
The list of API’s is here:
https://z-command.in…ser-manual/api/
We will be creating blog posts about how to create 3rd party applications on different platforms over the next few weeks.[/b][/quote]
Yeah, that’s not as great for me. If I wanted that, then why not just stick with the Vera and use the OpenHab binding? The Raspberry pi 2 should be able to handle some kind of plugin engine as well as the core stuff. Seems very short sighted to me…I want a box that does most thing (jack of all trades). IT’s what interested me about the Xuan StackBox (though it seems to be moving very slowly).