How To Simulate Sunrise With Your Smart Lights on Z-Box
If you'd like your Z-Wave dimmer or connected smart bulb turn on gradually, slowly increasing brightness over a given amount of time, you can create a custom scene in your Z-Box using the lua scene editor. We explain the steps below. Remember that this type of advanced programming is for expert users only, apply at …
How To Create Smart Rules With Energy Tracking on Z-Box
Manage your energy costs by creating scenes based on the Energy Panel. This allows you to base your block scenes off of various metrics provided on the Energy Panel, such as total energy consumption, consumption by device, consumption by room, consumption by device/condition categories, total production, overall bala…
How To Enable Remote Access on Z-Box For Support Purposes
Remote Access enables you to remotely connect to and oversee your hub and devices when you are not in the same network as your hub. For this functionality to work, the hub needs to be both connected to the internet and powered on. By default, remote access is enabled. To enable/disable remote access: 1. From the …
How To Manage Profiles On the Z-Box Hub
Profiles are a set of rules or actions pertaining to devices, climate zones, alarms, or scenes that can be activated quickly by the user or a scene. There are four default profiles which you can customize to your preferences (Home, Away, Vacation, Night) but you can add more if you want to. You can edit the profile …
How to Use Zooz Switches Without a Load
Zooz switches offer a remarkable versatility beyond the traditional realm of light control. From employing Zooz switches in scenarios where you don't necessarily need to control a physical device directly, to the flexibility provided by Smart Bulb Mode, you can open up a world of possibilities beyond conventional swi…
How to Create Sensor-Based Thermostat Scenes on the Z-Box Hub
You can use a sensor placed anywhere in your home to trigger / control some or even all of your thermostats. Check out the examples below to see how to use a sensor to trigger your thermostat as well as add conditions and multiple triggers to create your ideal environment. How to Create a Sensor-Triggered Thermost…
How To Manage the Climate Panel And Thermostat Schedules On Your Z-Box Hub
Temperature schedules allow for automatic control of heating and cooling for each area of the house. This is a great way to save energy, bring the utility bill down, and increase the air quality in the spaces we spend most of our time in. Before you can create a schedule for your thermostat on the Z-Box Hub, you w…
How To Program Scene Controllers And Remote Controls From the Device Menu On the Z-Box Hub
The Z-Box Hub provides multiple ways to create a scene. You can follow the standard block scene creation flow , or you can even program the scene straight from the remote control device menu for a simplified and faster approach. Check out the easy step-by-step guide below! You'll need to ensure that you're logged i…
How To Change Climate Zone Modes In The Z-Box Mobile App
You can create Climate Zones, thermostat schedules, and scenes to better manage temperature and air quality in the WEB UI of your Z-Box Hub ( click here to learn more). But the mobile app allows you to quickly change the temperature on demand and turn the thermostat off if needed. Here is how to access and change t…
How To Add Action Delays For Scenes In Your Z-Box Hub
Here is how you can create scenes to trigger a delayed action in the block scene building tool. You can use any trigger to create your scene. For the below example we will use device base triggers and conditions: * Single - trigger, condition, or action * Group - action Triggers will activate the scenes or it wil…
