jch Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 I ordered one of these from The Smartest House via Amazon. I needed a Z-Wave repeater and this would be in an ideal location as a chime. I used to use X-10 chimes, but most of them died. A doorbell/repeater combination sounds much more useful to me than a siren/repater combination. Currently (with 5.0.2) all you can do is ring the bell from the ISY. There has been work with other controllers to add more functionality, such as selecting a specific MP3 to play. I'm hoping we can get improved device support for this allowing playing a specific ring-tone on demand. It would not be the highest on my priority list though. The included remote is 433MHz, not Z-Wave. Apparently you can get it to trigger an event with the ISY if the plug-in unit is properly configured. The way I would like to use it is to program in some voice recordings of various alerts along with specific doorbell chimes and be able to trigger specific ones on demand. A poor-man's voice announcement...
Amigo Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 Good evening, yes, it is too bad the remote is not z-wave as well, I wanted to see if it could be used as a remote push button/easy button to start a chain of tasks. I guess I could use the Aeotec panic button, but that does not have a nice way of securing it to the wall. cheers.
danbutter Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 Just read some about this: http://darwinsden.com/aeon-labs-doorbell-review-aeotec-zw056/ Would be nice to see ISY support this. I could see many uses for these in my Home if you could have it announce a certain audio file for specific inputs.
Teken Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 Just read some about this: http://darwinsden.com/aeon-labs-doorbell-review-aeotec-zw056/ Would be nice to see ISY support this. I could see many uses for these in my Home if you could have it announce a certain audio file for specific inputs. That was a great read and insight about this product offering. It was also interesting to read his review for various controllers in the market place. The 994 Series Controller was given a B+ by the author but I had to question his reasons given his propensity in calling out IFTT as a requirement. Every time I read someone saying this must have IFTT the only thing that comes to mind is your stupid. I fully understand the concept and the flexibility that IFTT offers many in hopes of bridging other appliances and services. But this is like the whole push to cloud computing and services. This is for the cheap, lazy, stupid, and inept . . . Anytime I have had to sit there for hours and listen to the head IT Admin crying on about SLA's, 99.9999% uptime, blah blah. I always reply back and say why did you give up total control of your Exchange Servers and migrate to a hosted in the cloud service if you wanted complete control and access?!?! There is never a reply when I call this out, ever . . . Companies are all on the cloud power, cloud hosting, and services. Most of them do so not because its the best solution but simply to ride the gimmick train of fads. Back in the day there was a real strength in cloud computing for thin clients, security, and the ability to extend memory intensive applications on limited hardware resources for sites. Now, this whole cloud hosted services is all about convincing the dumb this is the only tried and true solution? I really can't wait for this whole thing to die and go away!
cpoore Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 What is the method (or is there?) to get the ISY to respond to the doorbell remote button press? I'm getting this on each button press, so I know the ISY is seeing something. Just a matter of how to configure a response. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ZW005_1] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ] [0104011301E8] Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ] [010500135400BD] Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ZW005_1] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:44 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ZW005_1] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ] [0104011301E8] Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ] [010500135600BF] Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ZW005_1] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-RX ZW005_1] ... Sat 01/23/2016 02:32:51 PM : [ZWAVE-TX ] ACK
k5map Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 Teken, Up until your last post in this thread, I've always found your posts to be informative and educational. But, my friend, by commenting on IT and "cloud", you've entered my world As a 30+ yr IT professional and CIO for the past 10, I feel I can speak to your cloud comment. As much as you might not like it, cloud is here to stay. Let me be clear, that I am NOT in the 100% cloud camp but I'm "all in" for a Hybrid Cloud environment. We can take the details of this offline but there are valid situations whereby a cloud solution is the best. I've never moved my mission critical systems into the cloud (and never would) but having had multiples companies email stored in Office365, I've never been disappointed nor would my users know if I didn't tell them. We can go deeper into the weeds offline if you wish. That being said... I'm not a fan of putting my HA in the cloud either. My resistance is primarily due to security. It is my opinion that most of the HA vendors are focused too much on getting their product to market and getting customers that it is merely a matter of time before one of them gets hacked. Though I have a lot less concern about UDI, I'm still on the sideline about the ISY portal but am following it closely. Ok... I'll get off my soapbox now
Teken Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 Teken, Up until your last post in this thread, I've always found your posts to be informative and educational. But, my friend, by commenting on IT and "cloud", you've entered my world As a 30+ yr IT professional and CIO for the past 10, I feel I can speak to your cloud comment. As much as you might not like it, cloud is here to stay. Let me be clear, that I am NOT in the 100% cloud camp but I'm "all in" for a Hybrid Cloud environment. We can take the details of this offline but there are valid situations whereby a cloud solution is the best. I've never moved my mission critical systems into the cloud (and never would) but having had multiples companies email stored in Office365, I've never been disappointed nor would my users know if I didn't tell them. We can go deeper into the weeds offline if you wish. That being said... I'm not a fan of putting my HA in the cloud either. My resistance is primarily due to security. It is my opinion that most of the HA vendors are focused too much on getting their product to market and getting customers that it is merely a matter of time before one of them gets hacked. Though I have a lot less concern about UDI, I'm still on the sideline about the ISY portal but am following it closely. Ok... I'll get off my soapbox now Its always beneficial to have healthy debate on various service / product approaches. I am not anti cloud considering my role is supporting the cloud to tens of millions of people around the world. I am fully aware of what it can and can't do and the limitations of such because. Well, I actually work in the infrastructure that supports all manner of cloud hosted services. Which is funny that you said Office 365 . . . LOL . . . I probably spend more time helping people trying to enable and set up a hybrid Exchange Server service than I do trying to explain to people where the hell there archive mail is and what Litigation Hold is, retention policy, white listing, filtering, etc. As I stated above there are some companies that absolutely get the idea of *Cloud Power* and what it can bring to the end users. Unfortunately you and I both agree that many of the people running the HA space have no freaking clue how to harness said *Cloud Power* The whole idea of cloud power in the initial concept was to allow a method to back up data, access said data remotely, and later it became a means to extend services or even to allow sub optimal hardware operate using application intensive software. Nothing beats a thin client environment where you can literally offer a rarely used site the ability to load up what ever operating system, software, and limit their use, access, and manage it from a global off site location. Having the ability to down load / upload files and applications and sharing charts, graphs, notes, documents which others can live edit and share is simply incredible. All of the above is the hall mark of cloud power . . . It also allows a huge measure of redundancy, fail over, and up time . . . None of this is lost on me as I literally work in this environment and control all of the pods through SCOM. Nor does it phase me in the least knowing there are millions of peta bytes sitting in dozens of countries which I control and manage. What does phase me is people who truly believe its a good idea to allow some random company have complete command and control of their home while having no clue or insight about the insight said company has about them. From my chair I can literally see billions of e-mails, know when someone is working on a document and what the last word they typed. I know the last time they logged in and for how long and from literally what room, area, country, city, town. At the the end of the day I am not anti cloud as I see much benefit in having it. My concern is having worked in this industry is that people really need to fully understand there is no such thing as control when that device / service is in the cloud. The only time you have control is if its in your own building and you have complete access to the operations of said product. This you and I can agree is the 994 Series Controller. I don't pretend to know what is in store for us in the future but from my bird cat seat. The current trend as we see here is simply not the correct path or direction I would consider in my life. As always I thank you for letting me share my rants, raves, and sometimes off the wall comments. Cheers!
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