“This is the wrong device to buy if you hve fibaro dimmers. I have 25 of the 212 dimmers 2. My house only has dimmable led bulbs due to a renovation. The box specs say Fibaro 212 dimmers supported. I even waited for the firmware update 2 months after it was released as i preordered it so i could have it as soon as it was released. very poor support from vera. They then released a firmware update that added fibaro 212 support in the release notes. No help again. I would suggest going down the Zwave plus stick of your choosing and a raspberry pi. Loads of guides on how to do it and a lot more supportive community as it is done by people with tech skills not doing it for the money.”
“This is my first HA after researching for several months. My other option was Smarthing but I thought I give this one a go as the flexibility and connectivity seems better. As this is my first hence I cannot compare other systems available on the market. Setting it up was straight forward. Linking it with the wall plug and Fibaro sensor were straight forward too (once you know what you suppose to do) I also had it linked to my alarm system and able to use all the sensor from the alarm. The community support is good and so does the support team from Vesternet. The PLEG plug-in is a must IMO allowing you to setting different scenes.”
“I have Homeseer HS3 and a Fibaro HC2, which both out perform this by miles.
I bought the unit for my elderly Mother's bunglow so I could write some scripts to turn lamps on at sunset, and have a bed time on so she doesn't need to go round turning the lamps off. In addition I have a small motion script running which monitors motion on a Fibaro sensor in the hall to alert me of "no-motion" during certain time periods.
All scenes and scripts work fine, but the 5 TKB home plugs connected can take up to 30 seconds to respond to commands, and I get fairly frequent "device not responding" alerts, which in a smallish bungalow and Z Wave I think is unacceptable. Yes I have applied all the updates, and refreshed the Z Wave mesh etc. but nothing has made any difference at all. Fortunately as most operations are scripts you don't really notice the difference, but if I operate any module manually, it's a very very slow response.
Personally I wouldn't recommend this item to friends, and am now changing it for her to a Fibaro Home Centre (lite), as I think this probably still needs a bit of work.
Interface is ok, but feels somehow a little disjointed, and is evidently a bit buggy across platforms as I run on IOS and Android.
I'm not sure if the speed issue is specific to my unit, or my unit with the combination of TKB home plugs, but either way this as a combination, in my application, simply doesn't work.
I've given 2 stars as the unit is very neat, similar in size to a network switch or modem, and the concept of multiple protocols is good, but above all it needs to work, so 3 stars off for me for this I'm afraid.”
“On the very first day when I perform setup to include zwave device, the device hang and regardless how many time I reboot the Vera plus, it show "Luup engine is taking longer to reload", and its actually taking forever.
I have to do a hard reset in order to proceed but I loss will the earlier setup.
Device allocated to room doesn't get saved, it reappear again in the old room, what a simple bug.”
“It's faster. Admittedly doesn't feel as much faster as I was hoping, but it's still a big improvement.
It's thinner (but wider), and it no longer looks like a hobby project.
Having the extra connectivity (wifi, low-power bluetooth) might prove useful one day too.
The upgrade itself went relatively smoothly, having followed the guide here. A few things needed reconfiguring and a few devices seem to lose contact a bit more often, but nothing fatal. Reconfiguring some plugins (notably DataMine) was a pain, but in that case mainly because the mounting of USB disks has changed under the hood.
All in all pretty pleased.”
“Originally worked with a Fibaro motion sensor + Qubino light dimmer . Then introduced 2 new sensors and it refused to recognize them. Went through the VeraPlus help desk who fiddled with it and they worked - But then the original light dimmer wouldn't. Then the whole system crashed and now nothing works.
Even when it did work it was slow - a couple of seconds delay from the sensor detecting movement until the light switched on.”
“I've been researching controllers for quite some time, and have Insteon, Smartthings and Vera, together with various home-brewed software. So far the Vera is the best - but there's still room for improvement.
The range of devices supported is huge, an order of magnitude better than Smartthings, and the flexibility of scenes is very good too. What lets Vera down is the slowness of the user interface. It's not bad, but it's not snappy either. The UI is also not very user-friendly and takes quite a bit of getting used to.
Despite all that it's currently my controller of choice, and the small number of Smartthings devices I have all play well with it.
Overall. for the money, it's the best controller you can buy.”
