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…
Keeping your home's humidity levels just right can be a challenge, especially when many humidifiers and dehumidifiers on the market lack Z-Wave connectivity. But with the Linked Devices feature, you can turn ordinary devices into smart ones, making humidity control effortless. This feature lets you combine multipl…
Creating full system backups is the most effective protection against the loss of configuration data in the event of problems or inadvertent changes. You can create the backups on our cloud or locally on the hub. Please be aware that there is a restricted amount of storage capacity available for backups. You can ret…
Geofencing works like setting up a virtual boundary around a real place using GPS or RFID technology. Picture it as establishing an invisible boundary encircling your residence. Each time an individual or object traverses this boundary, it initiates a pre-defined action or alerts you accordingly. In the realm of digi…
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…
Recovery Mode offers a solution for recovering the hub's operating system in the event of technical issues, such as when the Configuration Interface becomes inaccessible after an update. With Recovery Mode, you have the option to either repair the system or return it to its original default configuration, effectivel…
The variables panel can allow you to create more advanced home automations and scenes. It enables you to add, change, and check the status of global variables that can be used in your scenes. The greatest benefit of the variable is that if you want to reuse complex trigger conditions across multiple scenes, you defin…
While you will need to create your alarm zones and set any entry and exit delays via the Web UI , you can still arm and disarm individual zones as well as the whole house via the Z-Box mobile app. Check out the simple steps below! Alarm functionality in the mobile apps is limited to: * Arming/disarming individu…
A properly configured Z-Wave network is essential for ensuring the dependable operation of your smart home. If you ever encounter issues with your Z-Wave network, you might be able to use some of the below options to help with troubleshooting the issues. It is strongly recommended that any changes in this section be…
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…