About one month ago I ordered a Horstmann HRT4-ZW thermostat. I came across this z-wave thermostat while I was surfing across the web. As far as I know this is the only EU thermostat available right...
Category: Home automation
Having a Python module to control a z-wave network is great, but not really directly useful in practice. I can't imagine myself switching lamps on and off everyday using a Python script. However,...
Today I am releasing py-openzwave, which is a python wrapper around the open-zwave project. The wrapper allows you to control a z-wave network from python. This wrapper is still a work in progress,...
Open-zwave is a great project, it provides a software interface to z-wave networks. Z-wave is a popular home automation protocol. With more and more devices coming I was interested in adding z-wave...
This post continues upon the last blog post, in the last post we looked at some z-wave protocol basics. At the same time we had a look at a bitwise operation (XOR), in this post some more bitwise...
I started playing around with my new z-wave kit. I ordered an Aeon-Labs Z-stick (series 2) and a Duwi dimmer module to start with. Here are some images of both devices: 438