Hello,
I purchased a USB dongle to go along with Vera 2. I go to each Z-wave device and follow the steps of adding the device to the stick. Then I plug the stick into Vera 2 and nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Please!! Help me!!! 
Welcome!
By default Vera 2 is set up to use the internal Z-Wave chip. You’d have to tell Vera to use the external dongle instead.
This is controlled through the ‘[tt]Port[/tt]’ setting in ‘[tt]Z-Wave devices->Options[/tt]’. ‘[tt]/dev/tts/1[/tt]’ points to the internal Z-Wave chip. I’m not sure what the current pointer to an external dongle would be, but take a look at this post.
I will ping @JOD to see if this is still true. I know he’s running current firmware with a dongle.
@oTi@
I Wonder, supposing users have z-wave 3.20 enabled, woud it still be this easy to use a dongle as a secondary?
What would the effect be of a shift controller command in this case?
Henk
[quote=“oTi@, post:2, topic:168642”]@chriss922009,
Welcome!
By default Vera 2 is set up to use the internal Z-Wave chip. You’d have to tell Vera to use the external dongle instead.
This is controlled through the ‘[tt]Port[/tt]’ setting in ‘[tt]Z-Wave devices->Options[/tt]’. ‘[tt]dev/tts/1[/tt]’ points to the internal Z-Wave chip. I’m not sure what the current pointer to an external dongle would be, but take a look at this post.
I will ping @JOD to see if this is still true. I know he’s running current firmware with a dongle.[/quote]
JOD’s post is still valid. I use an external USB dongle too (Australian Z-Wave frequency) and my device string is /dev/usb/tts/0 (note leading slash).
Edit: This also works on Vera2 with UI5.
Will add this info to one of the wiki how to’s when i get around to it!
If someone has an appropriate page in mind, let me know.
JOD’s post is still valid. I use an external USB dongle too (Australian Z-Wave frequency) and my device string is /dev/usb/tts/0 (note leading slash).[/quote]
Thank you guys for the help!