The new Razzberry 700 series by Z-wave.me is finally available in the US.

[randy]

I’m not using either in production. I haven’t really tested range. If I can figure out how to restore a network to one, I’ll put it in production. This is just playing, if Z-Wave LR devices become available, I’ll be more motivated.

[OmegaQuest]

I have all Zooz Switches in my house but when I saw that Zooz 800 card, I passed since it looks so cheaply made.

The one from ebay looks nice.

Have you noticed any actual range improvements from the 800 controller on 500 and 700 devices?

I just received another Razberry 7 board and that one is working with HS and the Pi. So maybe the first one i got (that I could not get to work for the life of me), was just bad somehow.

[randy]

Which 700 Series Pi Hats are you using as well as which 800 series Pi Hats? Can you provide links.

Also are you using them with a vanilla Raspberry Pi image (Not the HS Z-Net image since I cannot get a copy of that without buying their Z-Net hardware itself).

I just want a way to get a couple Raspberry Pi 4 boards I have laying around to become Z-Wave hubs/controllers by adding an aftermarket Z-Wave hat and have the HS Z-Wave plugin see it and be able to add devices to it like normal.

I’m currently running the HomeSeer 700 series controller used in the Z-net. I use Raspberry POE hats and custom cases. I use Z-Net like software, that functions the same as a Z-Net using ser2net to pipe IP commands to the card.

I purchased This one from Zooz.



and this one from eBay. This one interests me because of the external antenna. It comes with a 2db gain antenna, but I found some 5db versions. Both of these will include and function under HomeSeer, but neither supports restoring a network. The. Zooz seems a little flakey.

[Roger D]

randy I haven’t tried to restore from an original Z-Net but I have been able to backup and restore a Razberry 700 back to itself.

My next project is to setup a combo Zigbee/Z-wave 800 controller with a mPCIE interface. Hopefully I get time this weekend to work on it.

[OmegaQuest]

I wasn't able to. Tried everything I could think of, but even though connected to a Pi running Z-Net software. It would connect but failed establishing inclusion. Rich also said they will not support a restore. I don't know if that will change.

I'm running HomeSeer 700 series controller cards and they are working fine. I have a couple of GPIO 800 series controllers. They work just fine, but HomeSeer doesn't yet support them for restore. My net step will be to move to those, when I can.

Which 700 Series Pi Hats are you using as well as which 800 series Pi Hats? Can you provide links.

Also are you using them with a vanilla Raspberry Pi image (Not the HS Z-Net image since I cannot get a copy of that without buying their Z-Net hardware itself).

I just want a way to get a couple Raspberry Pi 4 boards I have laying around to become Z-Wave hubs/controllers by adding an aftermarket Z-Wave hat and have the HS Z-Wave plugin see it and be able to add devices to it like normal.

[OmegaQuest]

OmegaQuest I’ve never had an issue with these cards. In fact I just set one up as a z-net last month.
im also doing a custom install for the same person by adding both the zigbee and z-wave interfaces onto the same 40 pin header.

Can you give detailed steps on what you are doing to get it to work?

*I have no issue with redoing my entire zwave setup from scratch if needed.

[randy]

OmegaQuest I’ve never had an issue with these cards. In fact I just set one up as a z-net last month.
im also doing a custom install for the same person by adding both the zigbee and z-wave interfaces onto the same 40 pin header.

Were you able to restore one from a Z-Net backup?

[Roger D]

OmegaQuest I’ve never had an issue with these cards. In fact I just set one up as a z-net last month.
im also doing a custom install for the same person by adding both the zigbee and z-wave interfaces onto the same 40 pin header.

[randy]

I wasn't able to. Tried everything I could think of, but even though connected to a Pi running Z-Net software. It would connect but failed establishing inclusion. Rich also said they will not support a restore. I don't know if that will change.

I'm running HomeSeer 700 series controller cards and they are working fine. I have a couple of GPIO 800 series controllers. They work just fine, but HomeSeer doesn't yet support them for restore. My net step will be to move to those, when I can.

[OmegaQuest]

I got the Razberry 7 hat and installed it to a Raspberry pi 4. Installed the Razberry 7 image from Zwave.me. I go to add a new Zwave Ethernet Interface to my HS Server running on a Windows Server. I enter in the IP and the Port 8083 (This is the web port Razberry 7 seems to use). Yet the interface won't connect/enable.

How did anyone get this working?

[pistacheL0]

Maybe some sort of interaction.

[PFL]

So are you suggesting there is a hardware issue with the 700 series controller chips?

I am not sure it is hardware or software issue because they only release binary. Silicon Labs told me they have a plan to open source the code. Once we get their code, we can verify that.

[ServiceXp]

Silicon Labs only release 7.17.1. That's the only version so far. Looks reliable so far.

So are you suggesting there is a hardware issue with the 700 series controller chips?

[PFL]

What firmware version are you using with that 800 chip?

Silicon Labs only release 7.17.1. That's the only version so far. Looks reliable so far.

[ServiceXp]

I test my newly developed Z-Wave 800 board, It has no that issue so far for running about 20 days.

What firmware version are you using with that 800 chip?