Popp/Düwi Controller

[denix]

@umtauscher

[quote=“denix, post:19, topic:164411”]That’s why Vera has the concept of polling - it has to poll to get the idea what state each device is in.

I can understand that with battery operated devices like sensors, so the would only report when they are “asked”. But with wall switches and switching devices I find it hard to believe that a controller would be forced to poll every device. And in what way would a controller then be different from a simple wall switch?[/quote]

Actually, with battery operated devices it’s even more complicated - they sleep most of the time, so you cannot just poll them when you want. They can only be polled when they wake up.

[thanhson]

@micasaverde

According to Duwi’s engineers, their remotes do not support the Z-Wave scene controller or scene transfer commands. So they’re not technically Z-Wave handheld remotes, because those commands are mandatory for a remote since that’s the only way to transfer scenes into them. The Duwi uses their own proprietary closed system, I was told, where you have to build the scenes within the remote. So, you can include the remote into Vera’s Z-Wave network, so the Duwi can see and talk to all the Z-Wave devices, but you can’t create scenes in Vera and transfer them to the Duwi, or use the Duwi to trigger scenes in Vera, because it doesn’t support Z-Wave scenes.

Is this still valid?, any Duewi engineer reading this post? Anyone getting the duewi remote to work with Vera scenes? I’ve got Vera 3 and the Duewi remote does not seem to control Vera scenes.
Thanks.

[desmarch]

let me push this question back to the top of the forum as I have this exact same problem: I can’t trigger scenes on my veralite using this Duwi remote.
Should I ditch this remote alltogether and purchase another remote such as the zwave.me?
Thanks to all for your kind support on this critical matter.

@thanhson

[quote=“micasaverde, post:9, topic:164411”]According to Duwi’s engineers, their remotes do not support the Z-Wave scene controller or scene transfer commands. So they’re not technically Z-Wave handheld remotes, because those commands are mandatory for a remote since that’s the only way to transfer scenes into them. The Duwi uses their own proprietary closed system, I was told, where you have to build the scenes within the remote. So, you can include the remote into Vera’s Z-Wave network, so the Duwi can see and talk to all the Z-Wave devices, but you can’t create scenes in Vera and transfer them to the Duwi, or use the Duwi to trigger scenes in Vera, because it doesn’t support Z-Wave scenes.

Is this still valid?, any Duewi engineer reading this post? Anyone getting the duewi remote to work with Vera scenes? I’ve got Vera 3 and the Duewi remote does not seem to control Vera scenes.
Thanks.[/quote]