Fibaro HC2 compatible/supported device list

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Yama Ghafoor

There is no official communication (yet) from Fibaro related to a list of supported devices by the HC2.

The forum section of this blog is dedicated to identify & share some knowledge of “proven” supported devices by the HC2.

In order to have a complete or the most exhaustive list, the contribution of the user community is required!

Therefore, your input and experience in the forum will be highly appreciated.

For more information, you can access the forum at this link.

Improving home security with video monitoring – Foscam FI8910W & Fibaro HC2

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Yama Ghafoor

Let’s improve the home security with monitoring the main entrance door: whenever the door is open then 2 pictures, with 5 sec interval, are sent to a given address. We will use a Foscam FI8910W and the Fibaro HC2.

The detailed workflow of the script would be:

(i) The HSM02 door contact detector is armed

(ii) The HSM02 detects a breach at time T0.

(iii) The video camera takes a picture at T0 and send the file by email

(iv) The video camera takes a second picture at T0 + 5 sec and send the file by email

The HC2 manages well IP video camera as a special device: IP camera is not like the other z-wave based device since there is no z-wave technology embedded in the IP camera! Therefore the inclusion process of an IP camera is different: you only need the IP address and login/password of the camera.

I selected the FI8910W IP camera from Foscam because of the following:

Foscam FI8910W

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Home security monitoring with Everspring HSM02 – Door/Window contact detector

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Yama Ghafoor

The security set-up and monitoring of my house is an important target. This should include various devices like motion detector, door/window contact detector, video monitoring, smoke detector, etc. Let’s start with a very modest configuration of the Fibaro HC2 and we will improve it by adding some other functionality!

My first goal is to monitor the opening of the main entrance door and get a notification by email whenever the door is opened. Activate/Deactivate the device through a Fibaro script.

I have selected the door/window contact detector HSM02 from Everspring which is a Z-Wave enabled device and compatible with the Fibaro HC2.

Everspring HSM02 – Door/window contact detector

The main reasons I selected this device are: