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Mi Casa Verde just announced their new Vera3 and the Vera3 Lite controller (see below for a picture), but they were also showing off the new UI5 interface for the Vera controllers. UI5 will be a free upgrade, and is backwards compatible, meaning it will run on the Vera2 controller as well. UI5 has been redesigned to be more user friendly (making it easier to do simple things, such as creating timed events), while also putting a major focus on energy reporting.
UI5 will rely on the ERGY platform for the energy reporting feature. There are 2 levels, the basic levels gives you a quick overview of how much energy your house is using (either by interfacing with a whole house energy monitor, or calculating the usage based on what the individual Z-Wave devices are reporting back). The 2nd level will give you much more details in a very eye pleasing interface, but will be a subscription based service. The service is still in beta, and will probably cost around $10-$12/year. Last but not least, there is also a renewed focus on an App store (similar to the plugin options UI4 offers now).
See the video below for a full demonstration of the new interface.
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