Off Topic OPINIONATED Rant:
I wanted to open a dialog about Z-Wave and how this is beginning to look like the end rather than the beginning of the road for Z-
Wave technology.
I AM invested in Z-Wave and would like to see it succeed but I see it fail at most turns. Why do I have to call the OEM to get simple parameters that are not on the instruction sheet provided.
Recently I posted about associations of Z-Wave devices and why my Z-Wave associations are greyed out.
This is the kind of thing that is stabbing a knife in the heart of ZWave Tech in general. Z-Wave doesn't stand a chance with so much cryptic crap going on for the user. I hope HS realizes this, because they are heavily invested in Z-Wave. Seems to me WiFi may be a leader in the interm and the lead is up for grabs in the long term. If Z-Wave device manufacturers had released all of the extended parms up front it might have helped. People have become accustomed to having easy web config'ing of devices through web pages which don't need a border router and not having to contact the OEM to get the extended parms.
Steve Gibson did a (faulted) security review of Z-Wave and for all of his faults he still made some important points about closed architecture and "security by obscurity". Worth a YouTube if you are invested in Z-Wave as I am.
I wanted to open a dialog about Z-Wave and how this is beginning to look like the end rather than the beginning of the road for Z-
Wave technology.
I AM invested in Z-Wave and would like to see it succeed but I see it fail at most turns. Why do I have to call the OEM to get simple parameters that are not on the instruction sheet provided.
Recently I posted about associations of Z-Wave devices and why my Z-Wave associations are greyed out.
This is the kind of thing that is stabbing a knife in the heart of ZWave Tech in general. Z-Wave doesn't stand a chance with so much cryptic crap going on for the user. I hope HS realizes this, because they are heavily invested in Z-Wave. Seems to me WiFi may be a leader in the interm and the lead is up for grabs in the long term. If Z-Wave device manufacturers had released all of the extended parms up front it might have helped. People have become accustomed to having easy web config'ing of devices through web pages which don't need a border router and not having to contact the OEM to get the extended parms.
Steve Gibson did a (faulted) security review of Z-Wave and for all of his faults he still made some important points about closed architecture and "security by obscurity". Worth a YouTube if you are invested in Z-Wave as I am.