Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

No one has said that only HS supports it. There was someone else who was
supporting it in a freeware app but the name escapes me at the moment.

Do you think they made it easier for HS?

"Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>CQC supports Z-Wave now, and supports it very well as of the new 1.4 release
>about to come out. So it's definitely not just HS that supports it. Zen-Sys
>didn't by any means make it easy for us to add this support, and I think
>that they really fail to understand what market development means, but we
>managed to do it anyway. I'm using Z-Wave here at my place via CQC and it's
>be extremely reliable for me. But that's in a fairly small system.
>
>Bit biggest is that, since no current Z-Wave devices send async state change
>notifications, it becomes a polled system, and the low bandwidth limits how
>low the latency can be kept once you get up to a certain number of modules.
>But, beyond that, it's working fine for us and our customers now. In a
>larger system, you'd probably have to give up two way on some of the less
>important modules in order to the polling latency for the others down.
>
>-------------------------------------
>Dean Roddey
>Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
>www.charmedquark.com
>