Since there are a few posts out there asking about running Vera as primary where people say you can do it, but no one actually posts the process for getting it to work, I figured I'd post is so there are a few less frustrated people out there.
First, DO NOT touch the "Controller Shift" or "Add Mios to another Zwave Network" buttons. Those will result in the Vera becoming a secondary. They only way to get it back to Primary if you do this is to open a support ticket with MiCasaVerde.
Now onto the process....
On the Homeseer interface, go to set-up\interfaces\manage\Replicate Receive (then stay on that page). On the Vera, go to add-remove-device\next\add-one handheld remote. That will create the secondary controller object in vera and convert the Z-Troller to secondary. Then, go back to Homeseer, and choose Import Devices. Once the devices are imported, you may need to restart Homeseer. It may also require a Rescan Devices after you restart to get everything properly configured.
I've now done this on both of my networks and it works fine.
The only issue I have, which I'm hoping to figure out, is that if I execute a command on the Homeseer side of things, the only way to get Vera back in sync with the device is to manually poll the device. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to get the devices to maintain state across both controllers. If anyone has figured out how to do that, please let me know.
One other caveat is that if you have door locks, they will not correctly import into Homeseer. Hopefully I'll get that figured out. I've got a thread going on that issue here: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=154584
Hope this helps a few folks avoid the frustration I went through getting this to work.
First, DO NOT touch the "Controller Shift" or "Add Mios to another Zwave Network" buttons. Those will result in the Vera becoming a secondary. They only way to get it back to Primary if you do this is to open a support ticket with MiCasaVerde.
Now onto the process....
On the Homeseer interface, go to set-up\interfaces\manage\Replicate Receive (then stay on that page). On the Vera, go to add-remove-device\next\add-one handheld remote. That will create the secondary controller object in vera and convert the Z-Troller to secondary. Then, go back to Homeseer, and choose Import Devices. Once the devices are imported, you may need to restart Homeseer. It may also require a Rescan Devices after you restart to get everything properly configured.
I've now done this on both of my networks and it works fine.
The only issue I have, which I'm hoping to figure out, is that if I execute a command on the Homeseer side of things, the only way to get Vera back in sync with the device is to manually poll the device. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to get the devices to maintain state across both controllers. If anyone has figured out how to do that, please let me know.
One other caveat is that if you have door locks, they will not correctly import into Homeseer. Hopefully I'll get that figured out. I've got a thread going on that issue here: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=154584
Hope this helps a few folks avoid the frustration I went through getting this to work.
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