Zooz 800 Series Z-Wave Long Range Scene Controller ZEN32 800LR, White | Z-Wave Hub Required

Had four remotes to control ceiling fans, ceiling fan lights and ceiling lights on my covered patio.We were always searching for the remotes when going in for the night or letting the dogs out in the middle of the night. Programmed several Home Assistant "scenes" to each button. Now we can turn on/off everything with one button, turn on or off the ceiling fans with another button, control groups of lights with a choice of color for ambiance with another button. Response time is sub second and have not lost connection since it has been installed several months ago. Recommend Z-Wave over WIFI switches to ensure reliable connectivity. Installation and integration with Home Assistant was relatively easy.My biggest challenge was deciding which combination of devices to assign to a switch button and the option (single press, multiple press, hold press, etc.) to use.Recommend this to any Home Assistant user.

I've had this switch in my 'front room' for several months now and it works great. I have it connected directly to home assistant, and have the buttons as triggers for different things,, including the smart bulbs in the front porch light and a couple of wall sconce lights in said room, controls for the blackout shades on the front window, and even a "panic" button if you will that activates all of the floodlights built into the reolink cameras around the house. The family doesn't think twice about how it works but it seems natural for them and I get to dork out adding different scenes like the party mode which triggers multi colors from the bulbs, and of course "rig for red" as I call it for when I'm gaming at night.. I bought a second one for the kitchen to control a smart fan and some other window shades but I haven't installed it yet..All in all it's a great controller that teams up well with home assistant, and has held a constant signal with my server.

This is a great product with a ton of flexibility. Provides direct control of one circuit, and then 4 other buttons. Each button can be programmed to perform different actions on press, double press, hold, etc, which really gives you a ton of possibilities. There is a Home Assistant blueprint out there already for this switch, which makes it super easy to program to control whatever you want. Directions are pretty clear too, though I ultimately had to call an electrician to install mine but that's because I needed a 2-way install and those can get confusing. After getting some help, the two-way control also works flawlessly. Build quality is also nice, and Zooz actually will provide you with firmware updates, which for some reason a lot of other manufacturers refuse to do. Zooz also supports a bunch of home automation platforms, and their support and documentation are quite good.My only minor ding is that the main switch is only a toggle, no dimming, but that's fine for my uses.All that praise provide, I would only really recommend this for someone with a big home automation setup. Otherwise most of the best functionality would be wasted... like what are you going to control? This device is not very useful without other devices and a hub to interact with.

At first glance this looks like a very useful device that has 1 main button to control a local load plus 4 small buttons wich can be used to set scenes or act as virtual 3-way switches when associated with other Z-Wave load switches. I thought these would be the perfect way to update my 15 year old Insteon keypads and start migrating to Z-Wave.The first weakness of this device shows up as soon as you include it into your Z-Wave network and find that no child devices get created for the small scene buttons. Instead the small buttons just modify the scene value in the central scene device. This means you can't just refer to the individual button status in rules or events within your automation controller but instead have to jump through hoops to detect central scene value changes and associate them back to the buttons. Why in the world make such a nice piece of hardware and then cripple it this way by not creating simple child devices so it can be straight forward to actually use it?You can do Z-Wave direct associations between the small buttons and another switch to establish a virtual 3-way switch configuration but there is no way to do a reverse association from the switch back to the button! This means the button and switch can get out of sync and you may have to push the button multiple times to get it to operate properly. Zooz support has suggested some ways around this by using several rules in your controller to process the central scene commands and keep the button LEDs in sync, but why in the world should that be neccessary? Just create child devices for the buttons and all that nonsense goes away.There is a use case for utilizing the small buttons strictly to set different scenes for a given set of lights and I'm sure the overly complicated central scene approach would be OK for that. I don't know how useful that narrow use case will be to most folks though. I have installed several hundred smart switches over the years and can count on one hand how many times this sort of scene application has come up.I think Zooz should consider a firmware update to broaden the applications for the ZEN32 while also making it simpler to use. It just seems odd that a 15 year old Insteon keypad is more flexible in application, intuitive to use, and just plain easier to program than this latest and greatest Z-Wave device.Update 12/4/2021Adding a star because when used with Homeseer you can overcomes most of the concerns I have with this device. Too bad tech support is not as familiar with Homeseer as they are with some of the other Z-Wave platforms. If they provided better guidance for using their product with Homeseer they could paint this thing in a much better light.

I’ve come to really appreciate the quality of Zooz products, and the Zen32 is no exception. I have three of them, and aside from controlling the main relay, I use them to control and monitor remote devices like my swimming pool pump and heater, outside lights, and more.It integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant and there is a Blueprint available that makes it easy to set up and use. The ability to monitor the status of devices is a huge plus, and everything has been reliable so far.Highly recommend Zooz for home automation needs. They deliver consistent quality, and the Zen32 is an excellent addition to my setup. Five stars!