ZW3008 update

[Jack Stewart]

Very sorry to hear the news Chuck. As we have discussed previously, I 
cannot picture myself having to deal with multiple suppliers to solve a 
problem like this at a distance of, in my case, 2000 miles. I wish I 
dared to go with Z-Wave but am quite sure that I would find it way too 
frustrating going between Xtension, Vera, and Apple by remote control. 
Plug-in's to Xtension are fine but the idea of additional control 
hardware/hardware sources is over the top for me.

I think that it would be interesting to get James' reaction to what he 
would be able to do if we each paid him an additional sum for Xtension 
equal to what we pay for Vera, Vera+, Vera upgrades, maintenance etc 
and, in return, he developed a version of Xtension which integrated both 
X10 and Z-Wave protocols. I think that "Brand I" has accomplished that 
although I have no personal awareness of how clean or successful it has 
been.

Still using only X10 on Xtension �� .

My two cents,

Jack

On 3/25/20 4:11 PM, Chuck wrote:
> After several weeks of working on my VeraPlus the folks at Vera finally admitted that they don’t support the ZW3008. I had to go back to the previous firmware and then do factory resets on all my ZW3008’s to get them to talk to the VeraPlus. It has been a major nightmare. They could not get the ZW3008 to work.
>
> So what did I learn? I learned that HA dependent homes can be a house of cards if they lack sufficient backups to fall back on if the system fails. When I say HA homes I am talking about folks like us that have built complex and integrated systems that rely on many different parts to make the whole thing work.
>
> I will never take down my old X10 sensors and X10 security sensors. I will be writing all my code so that they will all be integrated in the system so that if one fails the other will take over. Not only will I have a belt and suspenders, I will have extra belts and suspenders in case the original belt and suspenders fail. It was a good but painful  lesson for me.
>
> And if things are working, let them be. No need to upgrade unless something isn’t working.
>
> Chuck
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