Hi!
I am new to the entire Raspberrry scene but thought I should try to replace my Vera Lite with a Raspberry running Domoticz.
I have ordered a Raspberry but I will need to add Z-Wave support (I already have a RTXtrx). Is it possible to use a USB Z-Wave dongle (i.e. http://www.tricklestar.com/intl/product ... stick.html) instead of using the more expensive add-on chip Razberry (http://razberry.z-wave.me/)?
A USB dongle should be more useful for other projects and cost ~25% of the Razberry on Ebay, but I really do not want to buy both in the end.
Anyone know?
Re: Razberry or USB Z-Wave stick?
Hi,
Looking at the drivers page for the product you are looking at, it looks like it uses a USB to serial chip (PL-2303) that is supported by Linux kernel and works well with Pi. I use the usb to TTl dongles base don this chip to connect to Pi's serial port and just tried conencting one to the Pi's USB itself and get a serial device /dev/ttyUSB0 created.
So, I would think that you will have access to the device through serial port device on Pi, will just need to know how to "talk" to it
Looking at the drivers page for the product you are looking at, it looks like it uses a USB to serial chip (PL-2303) that is supported by Linux kernel and works well with Pi. I use the usb to TTl dongles base don this chip to connect to Pi's serial port and just tried conencting one to the Pi's USB itself and get a serial device /dev/ttyUSB0 created.
So, I would think that you will have access to the device through serial port device on Pi, will just need to know how to "talk" to it