Vera3 and EZFlora

Other Devices & Integrations Water, Pool & Irrigation
1

Hello all,

I was able to add the EZFlora via Insteon and it is now listed as a generic IO device in my device in Vera 3.

Can someone assist in configuring the EZFlora for 4 zones?

2

I do not think the built in insteon support in vera supports this device fully. You might have to use the altsteon plugin.

  • Garrett
3

Must use altsteon for full functionality. I have one controlling pool valves through altsteon

4

How did you get the times of days and or days for run times in the ezflora? where or how does it look in your UI5 Panel?
Thanks

5

I thought I’d bump this. I’m looking to replace my old controller and considering several options. This is one of them.

Any luck with this?

6

You will need to either run Altsteon which is an alternative to the built-in insteon support that Vera offers or you will need to look into the ISY Controller to control the EzFlora. Vera’s built-in support for the insteon device does not exist.

  • Garrett
7

Thanks Garrett. I did read that.

I have 6 or so Insteon switches running under Altsteon so I’m OK with that. I’m just wondering if anyone has any experience using this product (via Altsteon) to see if it’s viable or not.

8

I just got EzFlora to work with Altsteon. Installing Altsteon takes a bit of doing, but there’s a good tutorial on how to do it here. My biggest concern is that I can only turn on one zone at a time - not sure if that’s a limitation of the EzFlora or of Altsteon. The built-in insteon support that comes with Vera definitely does NOT work for EzFlora. Altsteon exposes all 8 zones, 4 programs, pump options, etc.

Good luck,
Mo

9

I’m not sure of any system that runs more then one zone at a time? manual or automated! As you would have to have some pretty good water pressure for that. But if a person really wanted to all you have to do if you wanted to run two zones at a time is add the wires together on the control and when that zone goes on they both will run. ex= zone1 & zone2 in zone one slot = zone1&2 run together!

On the ezflora the zones run right after each other. I have had my running now for about 4 months and no problems. Programming is pretty easy and I have a scene set up for three water times. But you can also run just a zone through a scene for special watering too. Hope this helped…