Indigo Domotics

Hi all, I'm looking to purchase a Aeotec WallMote Quad to use them as light dimmers. These are supported on v7.x. Anyone else has had any experience with them already?

Thanks!

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Seems like it's too new. I am taking the plunge and buying one from Amazon UK since Amazon itself is selling them so I can always return it back. Let me know if you have any specific questions as I am going to try to review it as much as I can.

Found an unboxing video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NtTOOv5jI

Pretty cool... i really wish someone would make a device like this but with wires for hooking up to existing switches. Basically a battery operated 2 or 4 or whatever binary input sensor that can be used with existing styles of switches rather than these lovely but mismatching with existing switch style devices.

Not sure if I follow you. Fibaro Switches and Dimmers integrate with existing switches with no problem. Plus this is a touch dimmer, not sure how you would integrate a touch dimmer with an existing switch, you can't touch dim on a regular light switch.

Turribeach wrote:

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Seems like it's too new. I am taking the plunge and buying one from Amazon UK since Amazon itself is selling them so I can always return it back. Let me know if you have any specific questions as I am going to try to review it as much as I can.

For me the problem is that it works on a "Zed Wave" network and I have a "Zee Wave" network.

Actually a nice looking device, but it wouldn't really fit into our install.

Granted you are using a different standard but that's the beauty of Indigo, you are locked into a single standard. All you need is the Aeotec USB Z-Stick (which costs less than £ 45 on Amazon UK) and you can add Z-Wave devices. Ultimately you shouldn't need to worry which standard a device is as long as it does what you want and it integrates with Indigo properly.

Turribeach wrote:

... that's the beauty of Indigo, you are locked into a single standard. ...

I presume you meant:

that's the beauty of Indigo, you are NOT locked into a single standard

Turribeach wrote:

Granted you are using a different standard but that's the beauty of Indigo, you are locked into a single standard. All you need is the Aeotec USB Z-Stick (which costs less than £ 45 on Amazon UK) and you can add Z-Wave devices. Ultimately you shouldn't need to worry which standard a device is as long as it does what you want and it integrates with Indigo properly.

Sorry - my durosity-style sarcasm didn't land. I was just joking that it was "zed" instead of "zee".


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Turribeach wrote:

Not sure if I follow you. Fibaro Switches and Dimmers integrate with existing switches with no problem. Plus this is a touch dimmer, not sure how you would integrate a touch dimmer with an existing switch, you can't touch dim on a regular light switch.

I more just meant a battery based module that can sit behind a grid switch panel to have the same basic effect. Of course as you said it wouldn’t be touch based, but that doesn’t bother me. I just dislike having lots of wall warts that look different

DaveL17 wrote:

Turribeach wrote:

Granted you are using a different standard but that's the beauty of Indigo, you are locked into a single standard. All you need is the Aeotec USB Z-Stick (which costs less than £ 45 on Amazon UK) and you can add Z-Wave devices. Ultimately you shouldn't need to worry which standard a device is as long as it does what you want and it integrates with Indigo properly.

Sorry - my durosity-style sarcasm didn't land. I was just joking that it was "zed" instead of "zee".


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No one can match my style of sarcasm or wit. Or lack there of.

Turribeach wrote:

Hi all, I'm looking to purchase a Aeotec WallMote Quad to use them as light dimmers. These are supported on v7.x. Anyone else has had any experience with them already?

Thanks!

Sorry missed this first time round, yes I have one.
Was going to buy when Vesternet had them at around 50 pounds, then they withdrew them and 4 months later they reappear at 80 odd pounds...
Anyway I bought one, not that impressed really.
It has a habit of talking to the controller and seems every time it does it flashes the + LED's yellow so as I was going to put them next to the bed that got a big fat zero from the other half, she was not impressed with it flashing all night.
I was going to put 5v into them permanently but when you charge them they will not talk to the controller. The only way I can see of doing it is to take the usb cables to a wall wart and plug that into a TBK switch that gets turned on when the WallMote hits say 60% and charge for 2 hours and turn off as you will not be able to see when it reaches 100%.
I cannot seem to get the dimming to work so set it to tap once for 25%, then tap again for 50% then tap once more for 100% on switch 1 and turn off on switch 3 press.
As I have it controlling a Hue bulb I can use Nathan's excellent Hue plugin and ramp to 25>50>100 over 5 seconds.

CliveS

durosity wrote:

No one can match my style of sarcasm or wit. Or lack there of.

No one got what I meant, so I came close.

DaveL17 wrote:

durosity wrote:

No one can match my style of sarcasm or wit. Or lack there of.

No one got what I meant, so I came close.

I did

I have always wondered what the official pronunciation of Zwave was; is it just down to the local pronunciation of the letter 'z' or is it a 'thing' with a specific pronunciation?


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I’m gonna say it should be zed.. as in Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead.


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