ZipaTile (from Zipato) looks like a VERY interesting new HA Controller

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Interesting all-in-one controller with nice looking features and a price point that ROCKS if it delivers on the features it touts…
https://www.zipato.com/product/zipatile/

… it is missing Zigbee (maybe radio could be added via USB?), and looks like the Ethernet over USB might mean “Buy a USB to Ethernet adapter dude.”

Definitely an Android tablet with radios/sensors attached inside a new wrapper (case)… which is very smart/efficient and exactly what I told Vera they should have done in several threads over the past 2 years.

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Very cool, and at a great price. More or less why I started the HomeWave app: to end up with something like this :slight_smile:

The bolted on features are interesting as well: motion and gesture sensors, SIP client, intercom… It seems to be intended as a 1-per-room device, so I am assuming it’ll play nice being a slave in an existing Z-Wave network.

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Looks great but I will wait and see what its like. Will be hard to replace Imperihome as my go to tablet device in kitchen.

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Yeah… The zipabox controller kind of sucks, mainly due to software and vendor support.

This would definitely be a ‘wait and see’ for me.

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Guys I think you are missing the point… it is NOT a Homewave/Imperihome alternative. It is a Hub/Controller… a Vera alternative.

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It’s got a Noice sensor.

That’s nise.

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I just checked the evertygo site and. zipato is supported by imperihome.

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It seems to be both. You can have one of these as your HA hub, though I don;t know how feature-rich it’ll be. But it looks like it can also act as a slave wall mounted controller, in which case you’d probably have a couple of these, each with scenes specific to the room it’s in. I doubt it’ll kick off Vera scenes (or scenes on another Z-Wave master controller), but it would be awesome if it did.

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I like that someone took a stock Android tablet and turned it into a sensor platform as much as a control panel. Let’s face it, almost every tablet has a camera, accelerometer, and microphone.

So my question is, how much would we pay for an app that turns a $50 amazon fire into a control panel and sensor? Because that is what this is.