Z-Station - USB for Z-Wave / Zigbee / Thread / BLE
Z-Station - USB for Z-Wave / Zigbee / Thread / BLE
Z-Station - a modern Z-Wave & Zigbee/Thread/Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) USB Adaptor. It will transform your computer into a full-featured smart home gateway.
A controller software compatible to the Silicon Labs Z-Wave Serial API (for example Z-Way) and Zigbee NCP is required to use the functions of the device.
Z-Station adapter supports Z-Wave and Zigbee / Thread / Bluetooth Low Energy (on your choice, selected by firmware update).
The device implements two virtual serial interfaces used by the Z-Wave and Zigbee / Thread / BLE application respectively. Linux and Mac OSX has a built in device driver for the stick and will create a new device named like /dev/ttyUSB* (Linux) or /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART (OSX). Windows enumerates a new COM port device but might require a device driver by Silicon Labs.
This device supports Z-Wave Security S2, Smart Start and Long Range technologies as well as Zigbee HA 3.0 protocol.
Compared to the standard firmware design used by almost all Z-Wave USB Sticks and other Z-Wave Host Interface hardware, the this device firmware offers several extensions and enhancements:
- Embedded Z-Wave and Zigbee sniffer tool
- Backup and recovery function including network topology
- Optimised transmitting queue handling to speed up transmitting process
- Firmware update from the OS level in the field
- Extended Wakeup Notification to extend battery life time of battery-operated devices in the network
- Advanced statistics about network actual usage
- Allows switching frequencies from software
Z-Station can be used together with any other third party software that uses Z-Wave Serial API and Zigbee NCP Serial API. There are firmwares for static controller or bridge (for Z/IP).