Vera Plus question

[Dee Dee Sommers]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, Phillipe!
You just saved me $30 plus tax. You’re the best!

> On Apr 19, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Philippe SCHMUCK <philippe-schmuck at orange.fr> wrote:
> 
> You don’t need an USB cable; the Mac and the Vera will talk together through the Ethernet network.
> 
> Philippe
> 
>> Le 19 avr. 2018 à 19:25, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Thank you for your patient explanation. So I’m on site now. I just opened the box to discover that I brought a Vera Lite with me. Haha. And as I read the documentation I printed from the XTension wiki last September, it occurs to me that my other Vera (plans for my home) is a Vera Edge. 
>> So anyway, I will start this little Lite to update its software if needed while I dash out to best buy with hopes of landing a USB-M to USB-M cable to connect the Vera Lite to the iMac. But I want to make sure that is what I need: Vera to ethernet hub with RJ-45, Vera to iMac with USB?  I think when I attempted this before I maybe connected the Vera to the now retired Mac Pro tower via ethernet since that unit had 2 ethernet ports.
>> 
>> Thanks, Dee Dee
>> 
>>> On Apr 19, 2018, at 6:44 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In your deployment location the Vera+ will not need any passthroughs or NAT config, but it will need a static IP address if XTension is going to find it on the local network. You’ve probably already got XTension setup that way but it might require talking to someone who keeps track of such things. 
>>> 
>>> It is still possible to setup a vera completely locally with no outgoing internet connection as well, but that requires access to the DHCP server to figure out what address it’s been assigned. If you have outgoing network access then you can do it’s initial setup through their cloud and then do all further work with it locally once you get the local IP address. Once you have that setup the cloud access isn’t needed anymore but is potentially still useful if everything else goes south you may still be able to access the Vera directly through their app and the cloud. If someone trips over the cord to your XTension machine or something similar ;)  So, no opening a port is not necessary. All other comms from the vera to it’s cloud are outgoing so it will work no matter what you have to do.
>>> 
>>> It is technically possible to setup the Vera on your local network and then change the network config for the remote network before you take it. That isn't how you’re supposed to do it, you’re supposed to add the units in place so that the ZWave network can figure out which devices each device can see and setup the neighbor/ mesh routing system. If you set it up at home and then carry it in those relationships may not still apply and initially you may have trouble talking to the devices. The routing should recover given some time, maybe overnight, or you can tell each device to reconfigure itself which I believe, but am not entirely certain, rebuilds those node relationships. So some experimentation may be necessary. It will probably save you some time and effort, but if it doesn’t work you may have to bring the vera around at the location and re-add the devices. It’s worth a try though.
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 18, 2018, at 10:11 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> James
>>> 
>>> 
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