Guys,
FYI: I have been in direct contact with zwave for over 6 months now, my main contact being Chris Johnson. They do not sell zwave devices direct, just the zwave modules, and as such its only 3rd party device developers which will supply products for home use.
The last i heard on the UK units was that there were a number of interested parties (including ACT) who would produce UK spec devices. I have obtained a number of device "samples" from ACT of which Mark McCall is now the happy owner of some of them.
I also purchased at great expense a developers kit from zensys direct which allows software and to a limited extent hardware development.
I was planning on adding zwave support to AutoM8it, but since the problems with Uk supply etc, i have shelved the project for now.
ACT we happy to sell me UK spec units if i would fork out around £60,000 for a production run. Obviously i wasnt that keen on this.
The development kit is interesting, but not of much use in the UK market
without devices, I still have a remote and some lamp modules, and the development kit contrains, CD's with docs and code and 2 development zwave boards which plug directly into the PC serial port.
If anyone wants to know any more give me a shout.
Cheers
Jim
FYI: I have been in direct contact with zwave for over 6 months now, my main contact being Chris Johnson. They do not sell zwave devices direct, just the zwave modules, and as such its only 3rd party device developers which will supply products for home use.
The last i heard on the UK units was that there were a number of interested parties (including ACT) who would produce UK spec devices. I have obtained a number of device "samples" from ACT of which Mark McCall is now the happy owner of some of them.
I also purchased at great expense a developers kit from zensys direct which allows software and to a limited extent hardware development.
I was planning on adding zwave support to AutoM8it, but since the problems with Uk supply etc, i have shelved the project for now.
ACT we happy to sell me UK spec units if i would fork out around £60,000 for a production run. Obviously i wasnt that keen on this.
The development kit is interesting, but not of much use in the UK market
without devices, I still have a remote and some lamp modules, and the development kit contrains, CD's with docs and code and 2 development zwave boards which plug directly into the PC serial port.
If anyone wants to know any more give me a shout.
Cheers
Jim
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