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 …
Z-Box Firmware Release Notes
Here is a full list of the Z-Box firmware release notes, including all enhancements, bug fixes, and changes. Learn more about updating the firmware on your Z-Box Hub here . Firmware 1.54 What's new: Added SmartStart QR scanning capability. Updated design for default icon sets. Updated Quick App content display …
How to Update Firmware on your Z-Box Hub
Ready to update the firmware on your Z-Box hub? Unlike other popular smart home platforms, Z-Box updates are not applied automatically and can be initiated by the end user whenever it is convenient. A change log is provided with the update so you can review all changes and updates and decide if the update works for y…
How to Set-Up Geofencing on Z-Box Hub
Geofencing is like drawing a virtual fence around a real-world area using technology like GPS or RFID. Imagine stretching a border around your house, and every time someone or something crosses that border, it triggers an action or notification. In the digital world, that border is drawn using GPS coordinates to crea…
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…
Z-Box Energy Panel Overview
Looking for energy saving solutions? We've got it covered with the Z-Box Energy Panel! The Z-Box Energy Panel can enhance the efficiency of your smart system, especially if you have solar panels or other trackable sources of energy connected to your system. It also offers the capability to analyze your household's e…
Z-Box Console: Why it's There
The Z-Box hub Web interface features a console, which is a real-time log of events happening on the hub during various operations: adding or removing a Z-Wave device, changing parameters, configuring the device, setting associations, and more. The console is capable of offering in-depth insights into active operatio…
How To Transfer Z-Box Admin Rights To Another User
Looking to transfer the admin rights to your Z-Box hub to another user? You can only transfer the admin rights to a user that already has access to your system. To learn more about the steps needed to invite new users to the system refer to How to Add User to Remote Access and How to Add User to Local Access . To…
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 …
