Domitech z-wave smart LED light bulb

This is a 60-watt z-wave enabled light with dimming function.

It was long time ago since I installed a z-wave plus device and it's so easy from the Mios.com Vera when you just need to drill down to the light in the list, instead of the early devices where you had to press a tiny button in the right moment, sometimes as fast as possible. 

The light is not larger than any normal LED light and the color is very nicely and warm. Build quality was as far as I could tell also OK.

Dimming function from the Vera worked very well. Just slide it. From the scenes you can set the percentage. The light is supposed to remember the setting when started next time.

So in perfect timing for the dark autumn evenings the porch is lit.

Z-wave DIN rail devices.

The lack of Z-wave DIN rail devices seem to constantly be something that pauses house builders to jump directly into the Z-wave home automation world. Luckily when there is a need there is also a solution, unfortunately it's not directly from the shelf, but if you can build a house I believe this is a piece of cake.

http://www.abavala.com/test-support-rail-din-pour-module-z-wave-fibaro/
http://www.vesternet.com/knowledgebase/technical/kb-17

Evida Z-Wave Touch Light Panel Switch

A touch switch for your light, that does not require a neutral wire*, will definitely speed up the z-wave roll-out in a post-modern house.


http://evida.com.sg/homeautomation/product/z-wave-triple-light-panel-switch/

Price is promised to be around 100 Singapore Dollar's when available in stores.

*If somebody could confirm this, since the link above is dead, it would be useful.

Cord Switch

Swiid^® Cord Switch will replace your standard switch on e.g. a table lamp and make it smart. Using the standardized Z-wave protocol it will integrate easily into your favorite HA controller. 
http://www.swiid.com/en/produits.html#swiidinter

Hong Kong Electronics Fair

The Hong Kong Electronics Fair (spring edition) had this year several stands containing home automation devices.
One very common thing is that several of the manufacturers seems to belive that a non standard protocol is better than using something that can speak to more devices than just their own. Maybe licence prices had something to do with it but then on the other hand there was so much stuff speaking Bluethooth LE there. On the exhibition you could find also well known protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee and X10.
Everspring was presenting their whole area of z-wave devices. Unfortunately no news for this year, but there was some vaugue promises about plug in sockets ala Fibaro style.
Red shield http://www.redshieldsecurity.com/ had also some devices that was market with z-wave but I did not manage to get more information from the staff on-site.

Home Confort uses RF protocol and promised possibility to control up to 24 RF devices. The devices looks very similar in size and shape to the Z-wave / Zigbee devices we have learned to know.

How many years does it take to produce a z-wave light bulb?

I know you all heard the old question "how many does it take to screw in a light bulb?". We know now that it takes about 2 years from promises to ready product. I have been writing several posts about coming z-wave products but see and behold! Here is a ready product:
http://www.zipato.com/default.aspx?id=24&pid=81&page=1&grupe=
For 59€ you get yourself a z-wave enabled led light bulb. I'm not sure if this is supported by the Vera z-wave controler but if you know, please make a comment.

Fibaro news.

http://zwaveforum.se/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4876

Fibaro seems to be going all in with voice control for your home automation project. The discussion board zwaverforum has something that looks like press material from Fibaro promising several new devices. What strikes me is that it seems like most of them support voice control. And could connect to your wired burglar alarm also. Another nice device is the Player, that I hope will work in same way as Sonos different multi room audio system Play, but connected directly to your home automation z-wave network, though Sonos is supported with Vera with the app in the app-store.

Some of the new devices seems to be able to work stand-alone without any of the Fibaro controllers.

Fibaro Wall Plug

Here is the brand new Fibaro wall plug. Z-wave enabled. Size and look makes this module very acceptable at any plug. Includes power monitoring.