“I really like the Z-Wave Fibaro Relay Insert 2 with its dry contact. I bought 2 of them to control my 2 sets of Silent gliss curtain tracks but can be used to control so many other things. I also find that Fibaro relays are the most reliable of all my z-wave stuff and respond every time.”
“I purchased this revised 2-channel relay module as a directly replacement to an existing earlier model, in the hope that I would be able to measure instantaneous power consumption. I have this running with HomeSeer and a remote Z-Net interface.
Although the pairing all worked fine, and I have multiple "child" devices added, I am disappointed that I just cannot get the power reporting functionality to work. As a switch, it's fine, and have no problems with it. But given I actually updated to this device so I could utilise power reporting, I'm somewhat disappointed.
As this stage, I am unsure as to whether this is HomeSeer's inability to support the module, or the module itself. Certainly, the fact that HomeSeer correctly creates 12 child devices for this module, causes me to believe that it might not be HomeSeer at fault, here.
This is the first disappointing module from Fibaro; a great shame.”
“I think these z-wave products have considerable potential, however as an experienced javascript programmer, I find it very frustrating that the javascript host support environment seems to prevent the use of most normal server-side programming functions.
As yet, I haven't found a way of creating even a basic javascript server application to control this or other z-wave products.
If there were a good online z-wave programming course, then I think home automation based on z-wave could have enormous potential. Otherwise, I shall have to look elsewhere.”
“Fibaro relays are reliable and work with a Vera conroller. They also have the range to reach to my workshop in the garden in which I have housed the transformers for the low voltage garden lighting. As this one controls 2 separate channels I think the price of £24 per channel seems reasonable. For anyone using these with Vera (and maybe other controllers) I recommend powering them up near to the controller (I just use a 'fly lead' with a plug on one end) and pairing it with the controller before installing elsewhere as this ensures a simple pairing process.”
