- The brand new Dwelling Assistant Join ZWA-2 is the last word method to join any Z-Wave machine to Dwelling Assistant.
- Its optimized antenna means that you can add smarts to hard-to-reach locations within the house and even past.
- Helps Z-Wave and the brand new Z-Wave Lengthy Vary, permitting it to connect with hundreds of sensible gadgets from the previous 20 years.
- As official Dwelling Assistant {hardware}, it gives a seamless expertise whereas supporting the event of Dwelling Assistant.
- Accessible August thirteenth, beginning at an MSRP of $69 (USD) and €59 (EUR).
Dwelling Assistant, probably the most energetic open-source undertaking on GitHub, has launched Dwelling Assistant Join ZWA-2, a brand new USB adapter that may seamlessly join any Z-Wave sensible house machine to Dwelling Assistant.
Although Dwelling Assistant has supported Z-Wave for a few years, the Join ZWA-2 is the primary Z-Wave {hardware} explicitly designed by the Dwelling Assistant workforce for seamless integration. The antenna and base are exactly tuned to Z-Wave’s ideally suited wavelength, working in concord to supply a dependable connection and maximize vary.
Paulus Schoutsen, founding father of Dwelling Assistant, mentioned:
“All of us have that one factor at house we want was smarter, but it surely all the time felt just a bit too far-off. With Dwelling Assistant Join ZWA-2, your sensible house can go additional than ever earlier than, connecting gadgets throughout your property and even past. It’s the last word method to join Z-Wave gadgets to Dwelling Assistant.
“Dwelling Assistant helps loads of completely different sensible house requirements, and whereas Z-Wave could also be a few many years previous, it has many strengths. Join ZWA-2 makes probably the most of these strengths with its optimized antenna and help for the brand new Z-Wave Lengthy Vary customary. We need to breathe new life into this customary and preserve the thousands and thousands of Z-Wave gadgets in folks’s houses working nice far into the long run.”
It’s designed to be simple to get began with. Simply plug the USB cable out of your Join ZWA-2 into your Dwelling Assistant system, and a useful wizard will get you began. If you happen to already use Z-Wave with Dwelling Assistant, plugging in Join ZWA-2 will provoke a wizard that means that you can rapidly migrate from most different Z-Wave adapters.
Join ZWA-2 is Z-Wave licensed and consists of the most recent Z-Wave 800-series chipset. This, mixed with Dwelling Assistant’s industry-leading Z-Wave software program, helps all Z-Wave gadgets. Included is the most recent iteration of the usual, Z-Wave Lengthy Vary, which delivers extra dependable, responsive connections to very far-off gadgets, and improved battery life (Lengthy Vary is at present solely out there in North America and Europe).
Join ZWA-2 marks the second technology of Dwelling Assistant’s Join line (the primary technology included a Zigbee and Thread adapter referred to as the Join ZBT-1). This second technology is concentrated on being probably the most performant and open design whereas trying nice within the house. Dwelling Assistant is within the midst of a significant growth to its Join line, which focuses on constructing high-quality {hardware} that hyperlinks gadgets of every kind to the platform.
About Dwelling Assistant, the Open Dwelling Basis, and Nabu Casa
Dwelling Assistant is among the world’s largest sensible house platforms, whereas being free and open supply. It has highly effective automation capabilities and prioritizes native management and privateness. Greater than two million households worldwide use Dwelling Assistant. Powered by a world group of tens of hundreds of builders, it was acknowledged because the largest open supply undertaking on GitHub in 2024.
In 2024, the Open Dwelling Basis was fashioned as an unbiased group to guard and help a number of the most necessary sensible home-focused open supply tasks, together with Dwelling Assistant, Music Assistant, and ESPHome, which it now owns and governs. It’s guided by the elemental rules of privateness, selection, and sustainability for sensible houses and for each one who lives in a single.
Nabu Casa is the business accomplice of the Open Dwelling Basis. It builds all official Dwelling Assistant {hardware} and runs the Dwelling Assistant Cloud service. It provides the overwhelming majority of its revenue to the Open Dwelling Basis, and shares in its basic rules of privateness, selection, and sustainability.
