ZWave Options

Revision as of 19:18, 5 January 2009

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Z-Wave Options

Here you have various advanced Z-Wave options. Use these options only if you understand what they mean. Most users will not need these options.

Reset Z-Wave network purges all data in the dongle. This will clear out the list of ZWave devices the are paired to Vera's black ZWave dongle. You will then to reset any devices you previously paired, and pair them again. If you want to also get rid of your scenes, network settings, users, network devices, etc., you can do a full factory reset.

If you already have another ZWave controller that you want to be the master, and you want Vera to be the secondary controller, bring the master controller and Vera close to each other, tell the current master controller to start sending network data or to add another zwave controller, and then click Copy Z-Wave network from a master controller. You will see the status of the transfer in blue at the top of the page, and Vera will tell you if it was successful. The "Role" shown on this page will then also change a minute or so later.

Rather than carrying around the dongle and using the dongle's built-in include/exclude, you can manually include/exclude devices by setting your options and clicking Go. Excluding a device is the same thing as resetting it, as explained here. Also read how to use this to do full power inclusion to add, or pair, ZWave devices to Vera without bringing the device in proximity to Vera's ZWave dongle.

Controller shift tells Vera to transfer the role of primary controller to another ZWave controller. After you click controller shift, proceed to add the other ZWave controller the same way you normally would, as explained here. The difference between adding the controller by clicking 'Controller Shift' versus adding the controller the normal way by clicking 'Add ZWave controller', is that if you choose 'Controller Shift', at the end when the other ZWave controller gets added, that other ZWave controller will become the 'Master controller', and Vera will be a secondary controller. This means the other ZWave controller will then be responsible for healing the networking and being the SIS/SUC (a technical ZWave term). Normally, by default, Vera is the master controller and is SIS/SUC.