[ANSWERED] Wayne Dalton z-wave / car2u bridge

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Sat Nov 04, 2017 1:29 pm
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Re: [ANSWERED] Wayne Dalton z-wave / car2u bridge

Thanks for the suggestion on using the Z wave scene controller plugin. I am using it and its working well for my Enerwave ZWN-SC7 scene controllers. It doesn't work for this Wayne Dalton scene controller -- no traffic on the wave bus it seems that the plugin can find. Thanks to the third party developer that wrote this plugin for helping bridge missing features from you.

Note, however, this Wayne Dalton scene controller was working perfectly in Vera as a generic trigger, so its possible to support, but perhaps requires some more complex scene registration from the primary controller (you guys), not sure. The way it seems Vera is generally handling secondary scene controllers was to register itself for each scene, so it would get the trigger and then could programmatically handle any needed functionality from there. Thats what you should be doing.

Again, generic support for secondary z-wave scene controllers, like the Enerwave and this Wayne Dalton, is something I have be begging you for now for literally YEARS. The Vera guys figured it out long ago, also a small company with limited resources and they are also building hardware. I expect more from you. You should view z-wave secondary scene controller support as a critical strategic development activity if you want to be part of any serious home automation solution.

I see a theme from you on claiming that every z-wave device requires significant custom development from you. I would challenge you to look deeper into your architecture, as the vera guys seem to have built a much more generic and robust system that mostly accepts new/similar z-wave devices without any custom development. All of these devices seem to get supported in Vera without lengthy threads from customers asking for support, sending logs, etc.

Oh, and I just got this email, so contemplating my next purchasing decision now. It would be great to be able to justify this to myself by seeing some more progress/commitment from you guys.

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Sat Nov 04, 2017 5:53 pm
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Re: [ANSWERED] Wayne Dalton z-wave / car2u bridge

We carefully have to prioritize all of our feature requests, and make no commitments as to when a particular feature or hardware module will be supported.

Although I agree this is an important feature, please note that every user has what they consider to be "critical" functionality and there is very little overlap in the requests we receive. What is critical to one person is not interesting at all to another. That is just the nature of the beast when it comes to home automation and control – there are dozens of protocols and thousands of modules out there. That is also one reason why we prioritize creating (and improving) a robust plugin architecture. We are very thankful to all the plugin contributors out there that have really helped make Indigo as powerful as it is.

I don't like to play the "we are a small company" card, but do note Vera is at least 15 times larger than we are (probably more like 20x to 50x our size).

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Sun Nov 05, 2017 5:26 pm
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[ANSWERED] Wayne Dalton z-wave / car2u bridge

Darren, please ask about this Controller in my plugin forum.

viewtopic.php?t=19392

If it’s like Enerwave it will need custom definition by me which, if the docs are any better than Enerwave, should be doable.

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Sun Nov 05, 2017 5:32 pm
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Re: [ANSWERED] Wayne Dalton z-wave / car2u bridge

(Ps - not promising how quickly it will be, but very much quicker than Matt/Jay are likely to get to it)


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