ZWave Dongle

Your Vera purchase includes a ZWave dongle, which must remain plugged into the back of Vera for Vera's ZWave functions to work. You do not need to do anything for the dongle to work with Vera.

If you want to use the dongle separately from Vera, or purchased an extra dongle on its own, you will need the appropriate CP210x USB-RS232 drivers for your operating system. They are available here: https://www.silabs.com/products/interface/usbtouart/Pages/default.aspx

Once the drivers are installed, the dongle should show up as a COM port or serial device. Then any software designed to work with the ZWave serial API, such as ControlThink, HomeSeer, etc., should work fine. Windows users may need to edit the port settings and set them to Bits per second: 115200 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop bits: 1 Flow Control: none

To add devices to the dongle, tap the button so the blue light is blinking slowly. Then activate your nearby Z-Wave devices. To remove devices, press and hold the button until it blinks quickly, then activate your nearby devices. You can also add/remove devices while the dongle is attached to the PC's usb interface using your Z-Wave software's add/remove device function. Use your Z-Wave software to replicate the Z-Wave network.

The dongle contains the Zensys 5.02 firmware, which is the latest as of January, 2009.