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whizzosoftware / WZWave

A native Java library for interfacing with Z-Wave PC controllers
Eclipse Public License 1.0
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Z-Wave over IP #32

Open AlexMAS opened 6 years ago

AlexMAS commented 6 years ago

Hello!

Do you plan add support for Z-Wave over IP?

I'll try to explain my use case. Currently we have some web-application which allows to communicate with Modbus devices over TCP/IP. Loosely speaking, user can see states of these devices and can interact with them. Recently our customer asked us to add integration with Z-Wave. And as you can see we need to communicate with Z-Wave controller through IP. As I understand it is the only way in our case. Or we have to make some middleware which will communicate with Z-Wave network by using your library and provide some public API via TCP/IP. But it's not convenient because makes the deployment more difficult.

I'm not so familiar with Z-Wave and maybe misunderstand something but I've read about Z-Wave over IP and it looks like an appropriate solution for me. Unfortunately, I didn't find good implementations for it. There is only one Java implementation zwaveip-java and I'm not sure about status of this project.

Thank you!

whizzosoftware commented 6 years ago

Hi! Unfortunately, I don't have plans at the moment to implement Z-Wave over IP. Perhaps someone else will be interested in helping out though. now that you've created the issue.