While HomeSeer has been incredibly successful in the US, we've not really had much experience of it in the UK or EU and even with the hundreds of thousands of customers that Vesternet has dealt with over the years, the HomeSeeer user-base seems to be pretty slim compared to the likes of Vera, Fibaro and Zipato.Ī while ago we added the entire HomeSeer range of software and hardware controllers to the Vesternet site and HomeSeer were kind enough to provide us with a Zee 2 so that we could take a look at what they have to offer.Īfter testing the system over the last few months we're now ready to share our thoughts - note that this isn't going to be a review in the traditional sense, because a quick search of Google will bring up thousands of those already. Since 1999, HomeSeer has been developing Home Automation software and now has many, many thousands of systems in use around the world!

So it's no surprise that it's a US based company that has one of the longest histories in the Smart Home arena - HomeSeer. The method I found that worked was to highlight the device to update on the Network Management page, click on the Node Info button, then click to the OTA Firmware Update button.The US has had a head start when it comes to Home Automation - the roots of technologies such as X10 can actually be traced all the way back to Scotland in the mid-1970's, but it was the US that took the technology main stream in the early 1990's. This, in turn, meant that the GET button was not enabled when I changed to the OTA Update page

In Step 7, I was unable to get the device to be updated “checked” under the QO column heading on the Network Management page. Looking over my notes in my Zooz case, I see I did have an issue getting PC Controller to enable update. Zooz support suggested I not use secondary controller method as they had seen mixed results.īut I had no issues with the PC Controller software extracting my entire list of Z-wave devices from the SmartThings hub. Last month I was updating the ZEN26 switches to fix an issue with them always turning on after power loss. Zooz didn’t provide instructions for using the PC Controller software as secondary so I did it the hard way. Next firmware update I did was to bring some Zooz devices from 1.x firmware to 2.x version. Now it’s possible that was caused by the firmware issue I was correcting by updating them. I wasn’t able to use Z-flash for that, in secondary mode it wasn’t reliably seeing the Levitons. Several months ago I purchased the Zooz stick and Homeseer Z-flash to update my Leviton devices.

Homeseer update failed