I have been seriously thinking about transitioning away from my VeraPlus. After 5 years of reliable operation using Vera3s and UI5 at two locations the move to Veraplus and UI7 has been a disaster – and expensive.
I was looking at using a Raspberry Pi with a z-wave interface from Z-WAVE.me, the RAZberry. However the support for the RAZberry seems to be lacking and complained about and I cannot even get a forum authentication email from them. So, I have knocked that idea on the head – I need something (software and hardware) that will be supported in the medium to long haul.
Would this work:…
Raspbian—openLuup—AltUI—Raspberry Pi3—Aeotec Gen5 USB stick
Thanks for comments.
_John.
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You have to use the ZWay firmware, but that can be with the Razberry board or the UZB stick.
A number of us have found great success with the ZWay plugin running on openLuup with a variety of processor hardware (RPi, VMs, etc…)
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So are you saying that the openLuup and Aeotec Gen5 combination will not work?
Part of the problem with the RAZberry and the UZB stick is that I can find no supplier in the UK. That’s why I wanted to ask on the z-wave.me forum if there is a UK supplier - but I got no authentication email when I registered so I cannot ask the question!
Regards.
Amazon should carry it. It did before this mess, and I think it should be come back in stock soon.
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Hi,
It is availble on Amazon UK Amazon.co.uk
Not seeing the USB version though for the UK. I can get it in NL, and see it availble in other EU countries.
Cheers Rene
Looks like Vesternet has it…
I’m dumbfounded! I searched several times and I did not see either of these. Dooh.
Just one question - are these “blue” versions really Gen5 - I thought the green versions were Gen5.
_John.
Yes, they seem to be gen 5 when checking the zwave.me version information:
https://z-wave.me/products/razberry/razberry-revisions/
//ArcherS
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