KenM
Active Member
Hi All,
I had some spare time today so I was able to play with my new Leviton 'Vizia-RF 4-scene controller' a little.
This is an interesting device. It will not control a load directly, I believe that stems from the fact that Lutron has patents on that, coupled with RF communication.
It will activate scenes on other Vizia-RF devices. I have also discovered that it will control the Intermatic HA06 dimmers in a dim up/down/off type of fashion. I have an old HomePro ZDW100 dimmer that it sort of controlled but that unit would go to full off on any dim operation. The ZDW100 has been discontinued so maybe the firmware was a little defective on it.
For this test, I am using HomeSeer 2.2.0.3 with a 'Z-Troller' PC interface. Leviton sells a Vizia-RF hand held remote but the Z-Troller is about the same price. You will need to purchase HomeSeer 2.2 to make use of the Z-Troller but as near as I can tell it is well worth the money. Right now the HS 2.2 Vizia-RF scene controller functions are not 100%, I could only get my one Vizia-RF lamp module to be accepted into scenes for the first two buttons and this could well be operator error.
On to my test:
The associations that I made for this test were done easily with HomeSeer 2.2, I associated a Vizia-RF plug-in lamp module p/n RZP03-1LW, two HA06 wall dimmers, and one ZDW100 wall dimmer, all to button one of the controller. After the associations were made, I shut down HomeSeer, just to avoid any confusion.
The scene controller has five buttons, four are to select a scene and one at the bottom is to dim up/down the devices in that scene.
Basic operation is that you press a scene button and all of the (Vizia-RF) devices in that scene will go the the levels that you had associated them at. A small, green LED on the button indicates that that scene is active. Pressing the same button again will cause all of the devices in the scene to go to 'off'. When the scene is active you can use the dim/bright button at the bottom to change the levels on every device in the scene, nice touch.
The neat thing for me, is that I can associate a standard HA06 wall dimmer to one of the scene buttons and have the controller act like a normal dimmer.
I do not know if this was by accident or design, time will tell on that. Right now I am happy because I can use a screw-in socket type Z-Wave device and avoid having to add an extra electrical box, at least at my first switch location.
Comments are freely invited. I would hope that other people using these things will be able to add to our knowledge pool. The included instructions are OK for wiring the thing up but do not say much about the device's abilities.
Regards to all,
Ken
I had some spare time today so I was able to play with my new Leviton 'Vizia-RF 4-scene controller' a little.
This is an interesting device. It will not control a load directly, I believe that stems from the fact that Lutron has patents on that, coupled with RF communication.
It will activate scenes on other Vizia-RF devices. I have also discovered that it will control the Intermatic HA06 dimmers in a dim up/down/off type of fashion. I have an old HomePro ZDW100 dimmer that it sort of controlled but that unit would go to full off on any dim operation. The ZDW100 has been discontinued so maybe the firmware was a little defective on it.
For this test, I am using HomeSeer 2.2.0.3 with a 'Z-Troller' PC interface. Leviton sells a Vizia-RF hand held remote but the Z-Troller is about the same price. You will need to purchase HomeSeer 2.2 to make use of the Z-Troller but as near as I can tell it is well worth the money. Right now the HS 2.2 Vizia-RF scene controller functions are not 100%, I could only get my one Vizia-RF lamp module to be accepted into scenes for the first two buttons and this could well be operator error.
On to my test:
The associations that I made for this test were done easily with HomeSeer 2.2, I associated a Vizia-RF plug-in lamp module p/n RZP03-1LW, two HA06 wall dimmers, and one ZDW100 wall dimmer, all to button one of the controller. After the associations were made, I shut down HomeSeer, just to avoid any confusion.
The scene controller has five buttons, four are to select a scene and one at the bottom is to dim up/down the devices in that scene.
Basic operation is that you press a scene button and all of the (Vizia-RF) devices in that scene will go the the levels that you had associated them at. A small, green LED on the button indicates that that scene is active. Pressing the same button again will cause all of the devices in the scene to go to 'off'. When the scene is active you can use the dim/bright button at the bottom to change the levels on every device in the scene, nice touch.
The neat thing for me, is that I can associate a standard HA06 wall dimmer to one of the scene buttons and have the controller act like a normal dimmer.
I do not know if this was by accident or design, time will tell on that. Right now I am happy because I can use a screw-in socket type Z-Wave device and avoid having to add an extra electrical box, at least at my first switch location.
Comments are freely invited. I would hope that other people using these things will be able to add to our knowledge pool. The included instructions are OK for wiring the thing up but do not say much about the device's abilities.
Regards to all,
Ken