NEXA PLUG-IN, ON/OFF Zwave AN-180

A basic plug-in module supporting z-wave plus standard. Easy to include to vera and very good build quality.

Aeotec LED Bulb 6

AEOTEC LED Bulb 6 was easy to add to vera. Just go to include devices and then turn on the light. 

You can select the dimmer strength etc after it has been included. 

The lights reacts slower than expected and seem to have a delay up to 10s before they react on the command sent. This make them not so use-full in connection with e.g a magnetic door contact. 

The light itself is comparable with other LED's I have.

Hank Scene Controller SKU: HKZW-SCN04

Hank Scene Controller a.k.a Szenschalter 1

SKU: HKZW-SCN04 Technisat

hmm.. not sure what I bought but the description said Remote Control with 4 buttons. The manual is in germany, but the site I bought it from had a link with better instructions:

http://manuals-backend.z-wave.info/make.php?lang=en&sku=HKZW-SCN04&cert=ZC10-16095219

Twist lock of the back side and the battery compartment was visible, the battery and a USB cable is include.

The included battery is of type LIR2450 3.6 volt and should apparently be rechargeable lithium ion and charge itself via the usb cable.  

Inclusion is of the old-style, press a button super fast many times and then it did pop-up in my Vera and see and behold it's very simple to assign already created scenes to it. It seems like only scenes can be controlled and not individual devices via the gateway, but write a comment if I'm wrong on that point.

2000 devices running 10 years on coin cell battery

When the team in Z-wave alliance takes the leap from home automation to IoT it seems pretty interesting. Like the news that the new long range devices can run 10 year on a coin cell battery.
Support for 200 devices with 4x the range.

Go have a look at the specs and do comment bellow if this is what you will enlighten your Christmas with.

 https://z-wavealliance.org/z-wave-alliance-announces-new-z-wave-long-range-specification/