Squintz
Senior Member
This review was sparked by THIS other cocoontech conversation. I got my hands on 3 intermatic z-wave dimmer switches. I removed 3 ACT switches from my network and replaced them with the Intermatic devices.
The first thing I did was run a response time test using a tool that Chris walker provided me. During this test I noticed that my Z-wave network thought it had a device that really did not exist. I am not sure how it got there but I can tell you that because of the ThinkEssential and Zwave SDK tools I was able to troubleshoot the network and find this ghost device. It was the main reason why my polling times where so bad during my previous test.
Attached to this post are those response times.
Also here is a link to a little video demo I did to visuall demonstrate the two devices performance. You will notice that when I start clicking between devices my lack of sleep takes over and I start to screw up the sequence. Just note that it is me screwing up and not z-wave
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd4/69684/...atic%20Demo.wmv
The first thing I did was run a response time test using a tool that Chris walker provided me. During this test I noticed that my Z-wave network thought it had a device that really did not exist. I am not sure how it got there but I can tell you that because of the ThinkEssential and Zwave SDK tools I was able to troubleshoot the network and find this ghost device. It was the main reason why my polling times where so bad during my previous test.
Attached to this post are those response times.
Also here is a link to a little video demo I did to visuall demonstrate the two devices performance. You will notice that when I start clicking between devices my lack of sleep takes over and I start to screw up the sequence. Just note that it is me screwing up and not z-wave

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd4/69684/...atic%20Demo.wmv