USB To Z-Wave Adapter, Houseport software comes to OS X

Admirers of Macs and Z-Wave have longed for the day in which they could finally use their two dearest loves simultaneously, and thanks to Wayne-Dalton, that day is upon us. The WDUSB-10MAC is hailed as the world's first Z-Wave-enabled home control system "designed specifically for the Mac OS X operating system." Mac users simply plug in the USB dongle, install the bundled Houseport software and go wild creating and managing their home network. When all is said and done, OS X users will be able to "control light switches, appliances, electronics, thermostats and other Z-Wave-enabled devices from their computers or through the internet" -- a feat previously only achievable by booting into Windows. Not too shabby for $87, eh?

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[MickeyMoo @ Jan 25th 2008 4:04AM]

Not bad at all compared to the software only price of the X-10 Indigo.

[edgar @ Jan 25th 2008 6:27AM]

Check this out for an open source home automation http://plutohome.com/ (supports Z-Wave devices, I wrote the code for the damn thing)

[EMoShunz @ Jan 25th 2008 8:00AM]

i came in here to post that i thought there was a z-wave supported solution for oss, preinstalled on a kubuntu based myth system i think. you'd be the guy who'd know!

[edgar @ Jan 25th 2008 8:15AM]

At that time (~2 years ago), there was nothing in the OSS to support Z-Wave. Don't ask me how I got the specs for that device (HomePro ZWave USB interface). HomePro device didn't even had an entry in the FT2232 driver.

[zach @ Jan 25th 2008 8:29AM]

Is there a linux solution for stuff like this? This is something I've wanted to do, but using linux servers.

[EMoShunz @ Jan 25th 2008 9:05AM]

@zach, @edgar, @me: found it...

http://linuxmce.com/

watch the videos, very impressive.
with the advent of kde 4, and the fast improvements in linux/bsd/oss, i give it 5-7 years before solutions like this are easier and better then any proprietary solution.

[Stefan Eriksson @ Mar 2nd 2008 11:59AM]

I see lots of chatter about this Houseport solution, but no place to buy it.

[Stefan Eriksson @ Mar 13th 2008 12:52PM]

My requests for information to Wayne Dalton have gone unanswered. I think this is vapor-ware.

[Michael @ Mar 24th 2008 8:03PM]

Any updates on this piece of software? Would love to find out some more info... like release date, etc.