hi is this a raspberry pi ? is there special software loaded? is the software on the microsd card? i dont see the z-stick is the z-wave installed onbo
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This is a Raspberry pi and HS3 Linux is loaded on the microsd card. The Z-Stick is provided and uses one of the two USB ports.
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Yep, its a Pi under the hood running Debian wheezy. The z-stick is included, but plugs into one of the USB ports shown.
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I put mine side by side with a raspberry pi. Yes, this sure looks like a Raspberry pi. It has all the same connectors in the same spots. The Z-stick plugs into one of the USB ports that you can see in the picture next to the network ports. There is a cover over the SD card slot, The cover is just out of view in the picture of the home seer - but its the right size to cover an SD card. It doesn't seem like I could remove the cover with damaging the case.
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This is a raspberry pi and it does have the homeseer 3 installed on the harddrive - I believe that that the sd card contains an image of the software in case the original gets trashed. It has a USB z-stick and a plugin installed for the zz-wave. Very easy set-up.
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It works using a sd card, so how big the sd card you have - that will be the capacity of your ISO stick. :p
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If you are using a memory stick, plug it into a computer and make sure the pics transferred. Otherwise, I would return it to amazon as defective and get another one. I assume the power is on to the unit. There is a switch on the unit for power on/off.
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No, and for those suggesting the zcombo, the whole appeal of this is that it is hardwired. The ZCOMBO isn't. Thanks for the input, though.
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It is a piece of shi... is not recognized by the USB and does not work with the software! :(
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I installed the system several months ago and have not had any problems with it. Maybe a fuse went off or some other power problem is happening. Lastly, try contacting ZMODO if nothing else works.
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The one I got had a version of ubuntu called Zorin which works very well in my opinion. I believe it has an SD slot but don't have the computer with me at present.
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The way I did was using the ZWave4J API, which is a Java wrapper on top of C++ OpenZWave. I have it running on Windows 7 PC and Raspberry Pi. Note that ZWave protocol is not public, it was reverse engineered by the OpenZWave guys for their implementation, so it's very hard to go lower level than that if for whatever crazy reason you want to.
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No. It is Z wave ready but you have to have a controller or a security system that works with Z wave technology, like a 2GIg system.
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I'm pretty sure Zotac is working on a revision to this board. There was a problem with the wake-on USB function on the original shipment. I'm sure most vendors are holding off until Zotac gets this fixed (or likely Zotac isn't shipping anymore until they fix it).
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To be clear, this is not a Z-Wave sensor and will not work with Z-Wave only devices. You will need a 2GIG GO!Control panel to use this sensor, I think this is where some confusion lies as the GO!Control panel has a Z-Wave controller built in but it does not use Z-Wave for security sensors such as this.
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You need a z-wave hub for it to work doesn't have to be smart things. It will need a hub to tell it's been triggered
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You're probably considering this device because it has its own external power supply, which prevents your Raspberry Pi's power supply from becoming overloaded. Right? I just got this device in the mail today and I had no problems hooking it up to my Raspberry Pi 2 and reading some of my existing hard drives. I found the disks with "sudo fdisk -l" and they show up as /dev/sd? devices. I did have a problem with a few drives mounting in read-only mode. This is more of a Raspberry Pi problem (not having the correct drivers). To get around this, I had to do the following: "sudo apt-get update" "sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g" then a command such as "sudo mkdir /sda2" "sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /sda2" You can find other documentation on-line, like how to get it to automatically mount at boot with /etc/fstab entries. Mine is "/dev/sda2 /sda2 ntfs-3g defaults,noatime 0 2". The "noatime" tells it not to constantly update the directory attribute to record each time a file is accessed. But back to your core question -- yes, it absolutely works great with a Raspberry Pi 2 (and by extension, shouldn't have any problem with Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+, and probably other version as well). Enjoy!
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I bought one and learnt a number of thingsa) NooElec has an external website and if you poke around long enough you will find software for this USB device.b) NooElec obviosly still has not figured out to at least include a scrap of paper with the shipment listing the web link.c) amazon scrubs all web links so I can't give it to you now, even though I have it. d) h t t p : / / w w w . n o o e l e c . c o m / s t o r e / s d r / n e s d r - m i n i - r t l 2 8 3 2 - r 8 2 0 t. h t m le) My USB device was not even noticed as an unsupported device by Windows 7 so I know is was defective.f) I returned it and got most of my money back.g) NooElec seems to have a number of aliases also. Amazon really should clean this up. I bought one and learnt a number of thingsa) NooElec has an external website and if you poke around long enough you will find software for this USB device.b) NooElec obviosly still has not figured out to at least include a scrap of paper with the shipment listing the web link.c) amazon scrubs all web links so I can't give it to you now, even though I have it. d) h t t p : / / w w w . n o o e l e c . c o m / s t o r e / s d r / n e s d r - m i n i - r t l 2 8 3 2 - r 8 2 0 t. h t m le) My USB device was not even noticed as an unsupported device by Windows 7 so I... » Read More I bought one and learnt a number of thingsa) NooElec has an external website and if you poke around long enough you will find software for this USB device.b) NooElec obviosly still has not figured out to at least include a scrap of paper with the shipment listing the web link.c) amazon scrubs all web links so I can't give it to you now, even though I have it. d) h t t p : / / w w w . n o o e l e c . c o m / s t o r e / s d r / n e s d r - m i n i - r t l 2 8 3 2 - r 8 2 0 t. h t m le) My USB device was not even noticed as an unsupported device by Windows 7 so I know is was defective.f) I returned it and got most of my money back.g) NooElec seems to have a number of aliases also. Amazon really should clean this up. « Show Less
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Not sure,but am amazed what this smart stick can do.i recomend more internal memory.
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NEWBs is already on the SD card, plus you can use filezilla to SFTP files to your Raspberry Pi. An adapter would be nice but is far from required.
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Is anyone worried about security when using this with Z-Wave? If I can unlock it remotely, can't someone hack it and do the same?