Using motors or rotors with zwave

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I’m waiting on my vera to arrive, but wasn’t able to find much when searching for my question:

Has anyone hooked up a zwave to a motor or rotor, similar to what you’d use with an arduino?

I’ve been looking at adding a simple motorized control to the knobs on some old floor heaters that I have, but the only “zwave motor” that I’ve found is a ~$200 window shade motor. An arduino with a zwave module would be overkill, but cheaper than this route. Anyone done something similar?

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You could use an Arduino with a WiFi shield or Ethernet connection, then have Vera make HTTP requests to the Arduino to control the motor. It requires a little bit of coding but it’s not hard; you’ll find plenty of examples on the forum here.