Homeseer / ZWave Control

[arthurm]

Is there information on which SDK Homeseer is using internally to control z-wave devices?

Is it something provided by ControlThink, home grown, direct form zensys?

Thanks

[Rick Tinker]

We use what EVERYBODY uses. Regardless of whether you wrap it in your own protocols, the communication with controllers is always done with the Zensys Serial API. Even if you append a USB interface to the Zensys chip, you are still using the one API.

ControlThink exposes many of the commands through their interface, but why you would want to tie yourself to that is beyond me - if you want to write low-level Z-Wave code, then pick up a copy of the Zensys SDK and do it that way. Leviton and Cooper are two companies with interfaces that implement their own simple ASCII protocol, but it is the same Zensys API underneath. Everybody else is the same - once you navigate the USB hardware if present, then you are sending/receiving the same data.

The protocol is all binary communication - have fun with it!