Z-Wave Z-Box User Manual - page 8
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Whenever you access find.zwave.me again and a local Z-Box is found clicking on the IP
address will lead you right to your Smart Home User Interface. If your Pi uses a fixed IP address
this address can be used for direct IP access without using the find.zwave.me service. You can
even turn off the connection to the find.zwave.me service but be aware that you will not have
any remote access capability anymore. Also in case the IP address of your Z-Box changes you
may have difficulty to find the new address. Hence we recommend using find.zwave.me. The
same time we want you to have 100% control of any cloud service usage of your system.
Z-Wave Product Information
This is a Z-Wave static controller. As a certified Z-Wave Plus device Z-Box communicating with
all other Z-Wave certified devices regardless of vendor or year of origin and it implements
the enhanced functions of Z-Wave Plus.
This device can communicate in a
se
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e e
nvir
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m
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n
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if the other device supports the secure
environment too. If not the controller will fall back to the normal communication mode
automatically. During inclusion the use of secure environment can be suppressed for
performance reason if desired. In Z-Wave all non-battery powered device such as the Z-Box
will act as routers for other devices to form a so-called meshed network.
In case there is more than one controller in the network the controllers need to be kept
synchronous in regard to their knowledge of the network. This is called
Con
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and the following policy applies: (a) in case there is a
SIS
in the network (check
in Controller Info menu) every other controllers will query the SIS for updates. (b) In the rare
case that there is no SIS and this device is
Primary
C
ontroller
please re-include other
controllers to perform a network information update.
The device supports the command classes ‘
Swi
t
chMul
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il
evel
’, ‘
Swi
t
chBinary
’ and ‘
Ba
sic
’ to
catch events from devices using these command classes to trigger actions in the controller.
There is no other action performed than changing values in the device data objects.
The device supports lifeline (association group 1, max 3 nodes) and 16 channels (simulating a
generic Multilevel Switch) to differentiate receiving commands from devices not able to send
modern scene control commands. The channels support the same command classes (Basic,
SwitchBinary, SwitchMultilevel and Scene Activation) that do not perform any real action but
allow command reception only.