Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Relay ZEN17 800LR for Awnings, Garage Doors, Sprinklers, and More | 2 x NO-C-NC Relays (20A, 10A) | Hub Required (Compatible with Z-Box, Home Assistant, and Hubitat)

I picked up two of these for operating 3 garage doors (each will handle up to 2) and also to extend my Z-Wave network range. Out of the box this was very easy to set up in Home Assistant. I did have to check the included documentation to get it into Z-Wave pairing mode, but after that it paired right away with Home Assistant through the closest Z-Wave Repeater and populated device information and configuration. The configuration has a lot of options but it's pretty clear and simple if you are familiar with switching and basic residential and low voltage electric. If you are not, get some help before you mess with anything like this and of course unplug/de-energize electric things before you mess with them.I have S1 set up as momentary, meaning it looks for a single button press or switch closure, which is what you get when you click the button on the garage wall. The R1 NO Output was linked to S1 by default, meaning when you click the garage button, it closes S1 momentarily, telling the relay to close R1 momentarily, actuating the garage door. This meets my "keep wife happy" standard where things need to work when you push the button even if something quit working with the automation. I could completely shut down all other devices and home assistant and this would still let the garage door work like normal. Parameter 10 lets you decouple this. Say, for example, if you wanted to set up security conditions, like keep the door from opening unless certain people are home, or time of day or something. There are a lot of other options as well, I added snips in the photos.With HA and Ecolink Tilt Sensors (B00HGVJRX2) on the garage doors it was very easy to set up door status monitoring, notification, and buttons in the HA front end. I was able to set up notifications based on people presence, duration left open, and time of day that prompt a button press to close the door. For example, the last person to leave a home zone with a garage door left open gets notified. If the door is not closed within x time, everyone gets notified.

I have 9 separate amplifiers for my home theater setup. My processor has 3 12v outputs and is separated from the rear amplifiers by almost 20 feet.I have 5 20 amp circuits for all of the amps. I have to be careful or I get ground loops between the equipment.This relay let me trigger all 9 amps via my existing smart home software and a combination of Emotiva ET-3 trigger expanders (hooked up to smart switches). The ET-3s are not directly hooked to the processor - instead, they are hooked to smart switches that are turned on/off based on the relay state.I use HomeSeer as my home automation software. I had to change the following on the ZEN17 for this to work -Parameter 2 - set to 7Parameter 10 - set to 0I then used (unable to re-name) window/door contact open/closed as my on/off trigger. I'm able to turn on all 9 amps (with a delay set in Homeseer, because my lights dim otherwise) when the processor is turned on.I've been using this setup for a few days and 0 issues so far.

I have this currently configured to function as a Garage Door opener that's connected to my Home Assistant server using ZWaveJS2MQTT. After configuring the device to function as a Garage Door and repairing it to my Z-Wave network, it has worked great and is much more dependable than my previous setup... a Raspberry Pi and GPIO relay.The only mild issue I didn't like was having to e-mail them to request the link to the firmware file. They were quick to respond and provided the link to the firmware file. But to do this and require people to prove they purchased it by providing your Amazon order number all felt very unnecessary and paranoid. I can only assume this is to help them track who has attempted a firmware update. That way they can protect themselves from false warranty claims due to users bricking their devices because of a failed firmware update but passing it off as a manufacturing issue. Personally, I would have preferred a direct link to download the file without having to e-mail them to request it.Given that, the documentation on their website is superb and the packaging this came in was excellent.