Introduction
Our goal is to create free software library that interfaces with
selected Z-Wave PC controllers, allowing anyone to create applications
that manipulate and respond to devices on a Z-Wave network, without
requiring in-depth knowledge of the Z-Wave protocol or the purchase of
expensive development kits.
This software is currently aimed at Application Developers who wish to
incorporate Z-Wave functionality into their applications.
If you are a looking for applications to control your Z-Wave devices, please consult this
page which lists applications that utilize OpenZWave.
Features
- Developed in C++
- Dotnet wrapper for Windows
- Portable to most Linux, Mac OSX and Windows Platforms
- Works with the multiple ZWave Controllers
- ZWave Protocol is abstracted away hiding a lot of the complexity
- Works with most switches, dimmers, termostates, energy monitors,
motion sensors, applicance modules,key fobs, door/window sensors etc
(see here for a complete list)
- Security related devices are work in progress
- Reverse Engineered the ZWave Protocol
- Easy to add support for new devices
- Fully Documented Code Base
- Includes simple examples to demostrate how to interface to the code
News
15th October,2014
Version 1.2 of OZW has just been released. This release has a little under 200 commits (around 9000 LOC) to the
repository, and the major new features is the Security Command Class support so things like door locks are now supported.
We also fixed around 41 issues (mainly new devices).
Some other notable changes in this release compared to version 1.0:
With more "Frequent Listening" devices now on the market, we have
refined the Wakeup Command Class handling a bit. As most FLiRS devices
don't support wakeup CC, we don't add it by default to any "Sleeping"
device if the FLiRS flag is present. This seems to work quite well.
Option.xml file can now live in both the system config directory
(/usr/local/etc/openzwave/ or /etc/openzwave/ depending on where you
installed it) as well as the current working directory. The system
Config Option.xml is usefully to provide system wide Configuration,
where as the local Options.xml is good for application specific
options).
Updated the Header Build paths and include directories needed. It
should compile fine with older 1.0 based applications, but newer
applications can specify #include type includes
now without having to specify the /usr/include/openzwave as a Include
path.
New CommandClasses support: Security, DoorLock, DoorLockLogging,
TimeParameters
The Full Changelog can be found
here
Thanks to everyone that contributed new devices, patches, ideas and
criticisms :)
2nd May, 2014
Version 1.0 Released! After almost 5 years - We are proud to release version
1.0 of OZW. This indicates that we are happy with the API, and OZW covers
almost all of the requested devices and command classes. Some Stats for your
enjoyment:
791 Commits
53,000 lines of code
Well Commented - 18,000 Comment Lines!
Over the 3 years - 14 Developers Commited Code
Google Groups Membership with more than 900 users!
You can grab the version from our
Downloads page