Qees well hidden Z-wave Product News

My personal opinion is that marketing money in the Z-wave area seems to be kept to a absolute minimum, or maybe make that absolutely zero. If you have something to sell. Don't go the CES, Don't go to Frankfurt, Don't update your home page. Don't release any press info... Hide it instead on your partners home page.
But this looks really nice!! Qees has displayed almost 10 new devices on a partner page including prices. No delivery dates yet though.

Some of the most appealing ones are:

• Z-wave Ceiling Dimmer, that you can hide in the roof where the light is hanging. 
• Z-wave Ceiling Dimmer with built in PIR. 
• No need to have a separate PIR to raise hell or high water when you or somebody else approach.
• Z-wave Ceiling Relay
• Z-wave Ceiling Relay with PIR
• Z-wave Wall Dimmer with PIR
• Z-wave Wall Socket Dimmer  
• Seems from the specs to come with battery. Can only guess that it means that you don't need to pull separate wire. But that's only a guess at this point. 

 The prices is in the +80€ area so a bit on the higher side, but the possible ways that you have with this set up to retrofit your crib is almost endless. I need to keep an eye on if and when they start to deliver also.

http://www.etotal.eu/category/ceilingseries-3/

Vera Beta 1.5.532

Yesterday I took the big step forward to upgrade the Z-wave enabled Micasaverdes Vera from the 1.5.460 public beta to the 1.5.532 private beta. The installation went very well and I have a small feeling that it's more stable than the 1.5.460 that seemed to hang the UI. Reason for this upgrade was that I was asked from support to install it due to a issue with the Aeon 4-1 one that you can read about here http://868mhz.blogspot.fi/2013/02/aeon-labs-multisensor-4-1-and-vera-beta.html

Aeon Labs Multisensor 4-1 and Vera beta firmware.

Aeon Labs Multisensor 4-1 DSB05 is not possible to include in the Vera as such, right now. But the friendly guys at Aeotec has released a firmware that should solve this http://aeotec.com/partner/z-wave-firmware/viewcategory/7-multisensor 
Or directly to the Europe firmware:
http://aeotec.com/partner/z-wave-firmware/viewdownload/7-multisensor/31-multisensor-firmware-europe

If you take out the batteries you will find the place for the usb cable.
The USB cable that come with the sales package can unfortunately not be used to upgrade the firmware. It can only be used to power it. I had to test several USB cables before I found one that worked and that identified something on the USB port. After that the Firmware upgrade went well.

Then you need to request a beta firmware from mios. So log in to your vera and press the support button and after usually a day or two you will have the link for the beta firmware ui5-1.5.460 or even better the private beta 1.5.532. That is the one I'm using when writing this right now.

Once the firmware upgrade is complete, exclude and re-include the sensor using the full power inclusion explained here http://docs5.mios.com/doc.php?language=1&manual=1&platform=3Pro&page=full_power_inclusion

When you include it I got the information that I should press the black button "between 5-9" times. 

What you probably is ending up with then is a picture like this:

Under that picture is a very annoying "Waiting for device to wake up". What you should do then is to press the button 3 times. And in the settings tab press the "configure node right now". This you might have to repeat a couple of times.
Then you should have a complete set of four devices enabled.

All the devices is  configured from the _4 in 1 sensor. So go to that one and fill in this

Settings tab
Wakeup interval (seconds): 720      (12 minutes) this time is rounded to 4 minute intervals.
Poll this node at most once every: 360     (6 minutes) this should be lower than the Wakeup interval.

This post seem to have been able to help me out with something that both Micasaverde and Aeon Support faild with. I upgraded to the Beta Firmware but was stuck since it was waiting for configuration for ever.... Now I have everything up and running, i hope. I took the freedom to correct the table since I think you had made a typo.

Device Options
Variable 2     1-byte-dec        1    (Wake on battery insert)
Variable 3     1-byte-dec      30    (Motion timeout in seconds)
Variable 4     1-byte-dec        1    (PIR enabled)
Variable 5     1-byte-dec        2   (Enhanced set commands. Use 1 if you associate a switch directly to the sensor)
Variable 111  4-byte-dec   720   (Time between temperature reports)
Variable 112  4-byte-dec   720   (Time between light level reports)
Variable 113  4-byte-dec   720   (Time between humidity reports)

What you then end up with after a new node configuration is something like this:



I borrowed a lot of the text for this post from RexBeckett posts at
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,3831.msg102469.html#msg102469

This was by far the most complex device to get added to Vera.

Vera3 2013, Product of the year winner.

http://www.electronichouse.com/product/details/vera3/

Nice when something you have bought actually is good enough to get an award! Make you believe you got the right stuff! The Z-wave Home Automation controller Vera3 received the Product of the Year 2013 from the Electronic house!

Nothing beats the paper.

A 11 Mb PDF catalogue with only Z-wave goodies to print and put on the coffee table.

http://www.tkbhome.com/uploads/13584914089336.pdf

Home Genie. Your Raspberry Pie Z-wave home automation package

At http://sourceforge.net/projects/homegenie/ they presented home genie. This is a package that might really rock the HA, Smart Home market in it’s foundation. It’s a “Open Source Home Automation Server Project” that not only looks great. It’s also available directly for your favorite device the Raspberry Pie!

If my Micasaverdes Vera would need a replace some day this is something I would definitely look into.

Jump over there and support them! (So it will be fully supported the day I might test it)

Cubieboard

Cubieboard is a new 49$ “developer board”. We all know that it means a sweet device to run your linux project on for a low cost. A herd of this will show up in the Raspberry Pie’s foot step. This one is a bit different and more powerful with 4GB memory and IR!.

A lot of details at http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubieboard like:

Specifications

SoC
A10 @ 1Ghz

DRAM
512MB / 1GB
DDR3 @ 480MHz

NAND
4GB

Features

Video
HDMI

Audio
3.5mm jack, HDMI

Network
10/100

Storage
µSD, SATA (+5v power)

USB (Host/OTG)
2 / 1

Other
IR