Vera - Smarter Home Control Forum
General => Lighting & Load Control => Topic started by: DTB1985 on November 26, 2017, 10:19:47 am
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So not seen it discussed on the forum but I see Lightwave RF have released a Gen 2 range and of the many features it includes di-directional communications from all devices which is awesome. I still think they are the best looking replacement switches available in the uk and this feature would make them so much more useful in a home automation system.
Probably way to soon but has anyone had thoughts about integration to Vera. Reading it seems to use a different RF band so the existing interface probably won't work and I see there is a new hub required for these new devices as well.
Interested to hear what other people think and if anyone else is looking forward to these coming out.
Ta.
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I'd love to know the answers to this as well!!
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I'd like to know as well
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Since we're voting :) here's +1
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Add my vote too. Although looking at the price for the Gen2 stuff at the moment I'm not sure how fast it's going to take off.
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Bi directional would be good but I am off LWRF now - I had 7 off 320 relays die over the last few years - they were out of warranty but not more than 5 years old. I tried to challenge LW but got shrugged off with hand waving 'just a coincidence' type of response.
I think there was a design issue in the relay hardware they used and they are not admitting this.
I hope their later stuff is better.
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Bi directional would be good but I am off LWRF now - I had 7 off 320 relays die over the last few years - they were out of warranty but not more than 5 years old. I tried to challenge LW but got shrugged off with hand waving 'just a coincidence' type of response.
I think there was a design issue in the relay hardware they used and they are not admitting this.
I hope their later stuff is better.
I wish the company I worked for had a failure rate like this! ~2% failure rate with a 2-year warranty, that's actually not bad really considering the average electronics failure rate is 5%. 2% is not a design fault, anything less than 10% doesn't even raise an eyebrow nowadays.
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Getting back on to topic. Anyone heard anything about the compatibility of the Gen 2 devices with Vera?