Z-WAVE.ME ZMEEZUNO Z-Uno-Z-Wave Board for Arduino, White

So far I've gotten this to work as expected with the Aeotec Z-Stick controller (gen 5) with Indigo Domotics, and the Z-Wave.Me USB Smart Home Stick with Home Assistant. I have yet to do anything all that sophisticated with Z wave (I have this acting as a simple binary switch), but have programmed the microcontroller to turn on a relay and subsequently monitor current consumption, then open the relay when the job is done and report "off" back to the controller.Just to pass along a tip - a mistake I've repeated twice now involves setting the "frequency" in the tools menu of the Arduino IDE. It defaults to Russian and (if you don't happen to be in Russia) must be switched to your region before you do an upload to the board, or you're going to be scratching your head as to why you can't successfully include it in your Z-wave network. I do my programming and test work on three different machines and neglected to set this the first couple of times. It would be cool if that setting could be a line of code (and maybe it can be - I haven't looked).I am really pleased that this building block is available. It took the stress out of creating a novel z wave device to solve a very specific problem. The documentation is very, very good and much appreciated!

I have verified that many of my other Ardiuno boards work on many PCs (Win/Linux) with many different cables.The ZUno boards I received do not connect and show the ZUno port in the IDE. I have tried all the troubleshooting advice from the forum.Tried to rescue and factory reset the boards, but the boards I got do not work at all.I will be returning them for a refund.

No I assumed universal Z Waze, meant it was actually actually universal. Also it hadn't plugged anything into pins until recently, if I had I probably would have returned item for the bent pins on the board. I straightened them myself. Maybe in the future I will purchase a compatible Z Waze hub so I can use this product as intended.

I've been using these boards to automate my house - for Somfy RS-485 shades automation, garage door sensor and opener and for several other small tasks.The Arduino API is very well designed and is easy to use, with lots of examples. The boards themselves are well made and have no issues, after about a year of uptime.

2017: As an IoT engineering Manager the device is a great concept. But until you get it fully supported onto latest Arduino and stay attentive to providing support for libs such as FastLED and others active in GitHub it will be slow traction and it risks being overtaken. Zuno needs a coprocessor such as an Arm M4 all on the module and it would be great end point enabler. An advanced developer portal would be nice.Sept 2018 update: Zuno has updated there code stack, now a very viable proto board for both QA testing and Dev Proof of Concepts, haven't tried their new go to market volume module as yet.

Even though this has a couple of issues, I'm giving it 5 stars for being the only device that did what I badly needed. For example, I needed to make a custom z-wave 4-relay controller (i.e. control power to 4 devices with _one_ z-wave device) and I was only able to find pre-made devices with a single relay. With the Z-Uno, I'm able to make a controller for up to a dozen relays or more. I also plan to make a controller for WS2811-type addressable LED strips. There are wireless controllers (maybe not z-wave) for these strips which play some standard patterns, and there are Arduino libraries that let you make your own custom patterns (but they're not wireless). The Z-Uno will allow me to write custom LED routines _and_ allow me to trigger them via z-wave (and, hence, IFTTT or WebCore). Lastly, I'm thinking of maybe making some z-wave window shades... another thing that I haven't seen offered commercially. Go check out the examples on their website... it really shows off the flexibility of the thing.A few caveats, however:1) This is NOT an Arduino Nano. Although the packaging looks similar, you can't just drop it into where you had a Nano and have it work. The pin assignments are all different, and there are some pin capabilities which are just missing, entirely (one example is that the standard LiquidCrystal_I2C library doesn't seem to work with it... apparently because it doesn't have pins with I2C capability or something, so their I2C examples all include explicit code to drive the I2C bus. Fine for displaying basic text, but, if you were counting on some of the more-exotic functions in LiquidCrystal, you may end up writing those, yourself).2) You'll want to know how to program the other end of the z-wave connection. I'm using Samsung Smartthings, and, although I was able to make it just be a plain binary switch by using the stock Smartthings device handler, I had to write my own device handler, from scratch.3) It seems to use the microcontroller for handling the z-wave communication. You can see this in their example for FastLED/Neopixel control; trying to drive a string longer than 25 LED's interferes with the RF communication, so I gather from that that any code which takes a lot of time to complete can cause the Z-Uno to be late for reception or transmission of portions of a z-wave packet. If you need to drive something which requires a lot of attention from the microcontroller, you might need to have that handled by a separate Arduino and have the Z-Uno communicate with it over SPI or maybe with digital pins.4) DON'T FORGET: If you change the capabilities of your Z-Uno (say, from a SWITCH_BINARY to a SENSOR_MULTILEVEL), you need to exclude it from your z-wave network and include it back. My guess is that z-wave hubs/controllers learn the capabilities of a device at inclusion time. Even if you add/change capabilities in the Z-Uno and change what your device handler is trying to send, the hub/controller will still ignore messages which don't conform to what it understands the device to be.

When I started to using Z-Wave more than 5 years ago, I did not even think about developing my own home automation devices. Today, I successfully use the Z-Uno platform to develop and implement devices for my two homes on two continents that are 100% tailored to my needs. While I'm in one place, I can completely control the other location and vice versa. The Z-Uno product is robust, well documented and easy to use. The best of all is .... It's a lot of fun!

Does exactly what it's supposed to do. I needed to run too many different servos for one board so I bought a bunch of Arduino nano for four bucks each to run the servos and I use the z-uno to communicate with my hub and to send commands to the nanos via I2C. So far I've got one nano connected and it works great.