Mill WiFi Socket Gen3

The Norweigian product Mill WiFi Socket Gen3 is a plugin module for controlling your wall mounted electric panel heaters via a schedule or then link them with your home automation and trigger it from there.

November 2023 i purchased my first one, shortly after the 2nd one and very shortly after that I replaced one panel heater with the Mill panel heater.

They all been doing very well lowering my electric bill while we are out and keeping us warm and cozy while we are home.

I really appreciate the mobile app and theyvare easy to integrate with e.g home assistant.

I have had one issue with one plug in module. It stopped heat one room and only the relay clicked on/ off. Reset did not help. They have a 5 year warranty so I got it replaced but then when trying to include the one I got from the store it only repeately ask me to upgrade the firmware.

I was not able to pass that step on my Samsung S24+. Until i tested with my previous phone the Samsung S22. There it worked. I assume this is a issue in their app that I hope they fix soon.

Until next time.

QNAP NAS ERROR CODE: 4

You would, could and should assume that a device created, assembled and soled by one manufacturer, think Tesla, Mac, KONE-elevators etc would be a piece of cake to update with latest firmware, if it's even have to be done manually 2021. 

But for the QNAP NAS Model TS-231P2 it turned out to be a tiny bit of challenge since at some point in time or to be more exact the 20190918 they had a small bug released in the first 4.4 build the 4.4.1.1064 build, but the day after they released a fix for it being the 4.3 version:

4.3.6.1070 build 20190919    2019-09-19

Unfortunately for me that was not clearly mentioned that the only firmware upgrade I could do was to the  4.3.6.1070 build and not any of the newer builds and there were a lot of them since I had patched last time!

After I had got the 4.3.6.1070 successfully installed I could go with the latest Firmware available. 

So there it was... Done for the moment!

Seems like they now support automatic patching and re-boot which I suggest you enable (can I turn of the sound somewhere that it makes when it boot? Please let me know in the comments)

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/

 

Fibaro Smart Implant

https://www.fibaro.com/en/products/smart-implant/

Fibaro will release the Fibaro Smart Implant. What a name! All friends of cyber-anything must love such a name as Smart Implant!
What it basicly does is take your normally stupid device and turn it into something you can connect to your zwave gateway and controll from e.g. remote, with your voice or via a schedule.