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Z-wave advice
MennoVanDerAat
Member
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Hi,
I want to start using zwave to control my lights in the livingroom (and extend it later to different rooms)
At the moment I have 1 single dimmer (x10 but not using x10 anymore) and a duo dimmer (see pictures)
My led lights on duo dimmer
My led light on single dimmer
At the moment a have NO z-wave devices at my house. The only thing I got is a Homey
Hope someone can tell me what I need to buy
What I minimal want is:
1. be able to turn light on/off manual (wall outlet). better if I also can dim them manual
2. controle them by homey (on, off, dim, bright, all off, all on, use pecentage of light in flows)
3. remember state of light
4. I know zwave is noy cheap but I dont want to spend to much on it
5. option to extend zwave use in more rooms
6. use different zwave products
7. solution for atleast a few years
8. best place to buy them
Please help me because I have no idea what to buy
I want to start using zwave to control my lights in the livingroom (and extend it later to different rooms)
At the moment I have 1 single dimmer (x10 but not using x10 anymore) and a duo dimmer (see pictures)
My led lights on duo dimmer
My led light on single dimmer
At the moment a have NO z-wave devices at my house. The only thing I got is a Homey
Hope someone can tell me what I need to buy
What I minimal want is:
1. be able to turn light on/off manual (wall outlet). better if I also can dim them manual
2. controle them by homey (on, off, dim, bright, all off, all on, use pecentage of light in flows)
3. remember state of light
4. I know zwave is noy cheap but I dont want to spend to much on it
5. option to extend zwave use in more rooms
6. use different zwave products
7. solution for atleast a few years
8. best place to buy them
Please help me because I have no idea what to buy
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Comments
If you're happy with just on/off, you could buy 1x FGS-212 (for your single spot) and 1x FGS-222 (for your dual spot)
That would be the cheapest option, it will cost you about 100€.
If you want to dim them all, you could buy 3x FGD-212, but it depends how much room you have behind your current dual dimmer because you would need to fit 2 modules there. I doubt that will work.
That will cost you about 150€.
I bought all my modules on Amazon.de (dimmers, (dual) relays, roller shutters, motion sensors). They are all around 50€
Just made my first zwave order YEEEEEHHHH (Fibaro Motionsensor FIB_FGMS-001)
I did indeed did some googling but I didn't found a duo dimmer that you can use manual and remote so I was wondering if someone here on he forum knows how to fix this
@Jacob Yep I'm dutch
Very nice!!! (but I'm done waiting for kickstarter products)
http://www.domotica-shop.nl/fibaro-dimmer-ii-fgd-212-p-16797.html
Please have a look at the manual.
I use these dimmers and control them locally with momentary contact. (pulse drukker)
By the way this is valid for all this kind of equipment, also KaKu.
The Fibaro can only control 1.
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/427333/z-wave-punt-me-dimmer-busch-jaeger-duro-2000.html
Use the code HOMEY16 while checking out and get a 10% discount on a minimal spending of 100 euros. One discount per customer (make sure you create an account first!), valid until end of march.
Good luck!
Oh, and +1 on the Fibaro modules. They are very good quality for a reasonable enough price.
The new connectors are not as good, the cables come out pretty easily.