Unknown Z-wave devices

ruffinitinbama · August 28, 2020, 8:56pm

Netware is a name I hadn't heard in a long time... That was a fancy server interface wasn't it? It was in color too, green or amber,

I remember having to fake the Novell server out to recognize the Sun Sparc workstations. and make some code so they could place files on it. The memory card in the side of my phone has 50 times the hard drive space our "servers" had back then!

So I guess I need to get z-wave stick then? Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of buying a hub? I mean, I guess i need the zigbee integration but I could probably skip that honestly.

Is there no other way to repair the z-wave network?

lewis.heidrick · August 28, 2020, 8:58pm

They're working on it and will probably have something out in a day or two or three but maybe not depending on what issues they run into and it's always better in my opinion to have control over the network wherever possible.

ruffinitinbama · August 28, 2020, 8:59pm

I remember setting up the server and there being 20 plus floppies to install it.

I also remember a Seagate ad from back then. It had a lady smoking a cigarette over a computer and saying she would rather have a 5 1/4 hard drive than an 8 inch floppy any day!

ruffinitinbama · August 28, 2020, 9:00pm

I guess I'll just wait for a solution then.

danabw · August 28, 2020, 9:01pm

Dammit...I plugged in the UZB stick, I hear happy "usb device connected" chirps from Windows, but no device shows up in Device Manager, and the PC Controller app is not happy:

I have the PC Controller app installed, obviously, I installed (or thought I did) the Zwave SDK yesterday.

How do I get the driver for the UZB stick to see it, and vice-versa?

douglaspitman · August 28, 2020, 9:02pm

I had to point it to the port in some network screen

douglaspitman · August 28, 2020, 9:03pm

it was up in settings

danabw · August 28, 2020, 9:04pm

I thought this meant it was already pointed...at com4

danabw · August 28, 2020, 9:06pm

Do I need to complete this? hub IP and a particular port?

From the ADD button

erktrek · August 28, 2020, 9:07pm

No you don't need anything like that you have what I have

danabw · August 28, 2020, 9:07pm

Weird...This error is appearing:

lewis.heidrick · August 28, 2020, 9:09pm

one sec i'll find the driver link for you.

lewis.heidrick · August 28, 2020, 9:10pm

erktrek · August 28, 2020, 9:12pm

or check here..

...\ZWavePCController_v5_39\Bin\ZW050x_USB_VCP_PC_Driver

lewis.heidrick · August 28, 2020, 9:13pm

Your link got butchered.

danabw · August 28, 2020, 9:13pm

Thanks, ran the install, and got this:

Re-inserting UZB stick and the restarting PC Control.

erktrek · August 28, 2020, 9:14pm

It's actually the PC Controller sw directory I think the driver is in there as well.

edit: shamelessly taken from here...

lewis.heidrick · August 28, 2020, 9:16pm

Gotcha and yea it's available in the bin folder.

danabw · August 28, 2020, 9:25pm

I'm rebooting, nothing is working even w/the driver installed... back in a bit.

Rebooting didn't help, unfortunately. From past experience at this point the next step would be to throw the computer at a wall...but that only works for work laptops, and this one is mine.

danabw · August 28, 2020, 10:30pm

@erktrek got me up and running...huge kudos for him.

I still have to pair the UZB stick to my hub, but the stick is communicating w/PC Controller.

It looks like the problem might have been using a different driver than the one in the PC Control BIN folder...after removing all drivers and SW and rebooting, and starting over w/the default PC Control BIN driver (which was selected automatically) it 'just worked.'

Thanks for all the assistance.